New Toy
Just before I went for a long walk on Sunday, I spotted a Mimaki CG-60 vinyl/cutter plotter on Trademe, just a few years old, and apparently little used. Bidding had started at $1100, but the reserve had not been reached and it …
Author: Dave
Dropped laptop
Picked this one up yesterday afternoon, nice Sony Vaio laptop, which had been dropped off a chair while booted up. As would be expected, the hard disk was damaged, and the system partially booted into windows, then reset itself. Ran …
Free applications
I am currently studying at the local community college (Whitireia Polytechnic, Porirua), brushing up on my desktop publishing skills, in particular the design side of it. As part of the course we are learning to use the Adobe Creative Suite, …
Administrator passwords
Every now and then I get the situation where I really have to get rid of an administrator password on a PC. For instance, someone gives an aging relative a laptop which they used at work, which has an admin …
Corrupt user profile
A client rang with an interesting tale of woe. When starting up his laptop after everything being completely normal in the previous session of use, it was coming up with a whole raft of disturbing symptoms, including missing icons off …
Dangers of smoking!
I had a call recently from a local lady whose ‘mouse had stopped working’. I popped in and had a look at the machine, and it was obviously not well. The mouse just did not work, the network connection was …
Paradise dial up server timeouts
I have recently dealt with two customers who has an identical problem. They are both Paradise customers, both use a dial up connection, and are both getting server timeouts and disconnects when using outlook express to download emails. Paradise and …
HP Compaq laptops
Got a call from a guy living in a mobile home park, who obviously depends on his laptop and mobile for communications. The laptop was switching on, all the lights were lighting up blue, but nothing was happening, no display, …
Missed a month
I haven’t posted here for nearly a month. It’s not that I have not been busy, just that nothing has been that tricky really. Sorted out a number of hardware problems, including diagnosing and replacing a graphics card, diagnosing a …
Latest tricky job
Had a request from a client to ‘repair windows XP’ on his Asus laptop. He’d tried but couldn’t get his XP disk to repair the XP system. Dropped into see him to see if it was something quick, and looked …