Back again

I have been very remiss about this blog of late!

Today we were as usual very busy. The first job was to try to revive a computer found on a skip. Attempts were made to install XP, but without much success as we write!

The next job was far more successful. A very slow E-Machines computer was brought in. We suspected a bad virus infection, but the easiest way to sort this out was to backup all documents and then reinstall XP. This was done succesfully and the computer was then running as new. An important point, however, was that there was no anti virus program on the computer, and Service Pack 2 was no longer installed. This would have to be done by the customer.

Finally, Dai installed Service Pack 2 on another computer, and a wireless router was re-installed, again this seemed to work well.

Spring Clean!?

Mid morning we were faced by the dreaded Blue Screen, and a computer refusing to boot up properly

Was it

• The Power supply?



• The Hard Disk?



• Memory?
  


• Anything else???
  

Power seemed OK, so the Ultimate Boot CD was employed. Even this caused problems so we looked at the processer, which seemed by now hot enough to cook lunch which was fast approaching. On removing the cooling fan for the processor, this is what we found and then did.

Before:



After

Back again after Half Term

Very busy today. Saw Margaret who we met two weeks ago with the very nice Mac in the Doctors surgery - very happy with the computer, but still needs to connect to the internet.
Left that surgery with my medication to go to the PC surgery.

When I arrived, found Steve hard at work on a computer which had no power, but Colin seemed to be the one really lumbered with the job of sorting out the connections but he was not the one caught on camera - or at least my phone!

Dai was taught how to Install Dreamweaver on computers in Ammanford from the comfort of his seat in Glynneath. This really was interesting, and had saved Nicky a long trip as well as saving the class in Ammanford.