No space on a disk
A past customer actually remembered what I said about her computer needing a good audit check and clean up (most don’t) and asked me to fix her computer which was “running slowly”. I started it up in Ubuntu to do …
Category: Computer Stuff
Jerky mouse in Firefox
This problem has plagued me since Firefox 4 came along. On my FitPC I run Windows XP Pro, use a logitech wireless mouse and keyboard, have 2 gigs of ram and enough processing power, but when I install any version …
Sucker for punishment
I must be, the jobs I take on and how I try to fix them! In this case, a regular customer for computer and sign work rang to say her HP All-in-one had a virus. I fired it up and …
System Files
I have just been given an external hard drive by a customer, where 3 years worth of videos had been deleted by an anti virus program (Microsoft Security Essentials). This of course is the customers view of things, coloured by …
Memory upgrade problems
A good customer of mine has a borrowed Toshiba Satellite A100 laptop, which the owner had already bought some extra ram for, and I was asked to do the memory upgrade. I took out the old ram, inserted the new, …
Drives with bad sectors
Over the last couple of years I have come across a lot of drives with bad sectors. Sometimes these can be fixed just using chkdsk /R in Windows Recovery, but sometimes the error seems to be much ‘deeper’ and nothing …
Another computer
A customer recently brought a lap to be fixed, about 6 years old, 1.7Gig Compaq nx6120 with 512meg of ram. It quickly became apparent that the IDE 60GB drive was damaged beyond recovery. I informed the customer of the cost …
Freeview – final installment
The Freeview reception was so much better with a freeview box than with the computer, but it still wasn’t perfect. On very windy days we would get some signal drop out on TVNZ channels, but it was close enough to …
Freeview update
I ordered an HDMI cable to go between the Freeview box and the HD ready TV, and plugged it in today. This finishes the job off nicely, wonderful reception and images (even on our 32in TV). It also frees up …
Freeview in Whitby
Not really an SOS post, but technical anyway! We have been experimenting for a year or so with Freeview through the TV card in our Acer Entertainment PC, and despite a couple of different antennas, the latest being a rather …