Well, wasn’t last night’s post just full of cheerfulness? Must have had a bad case of the uglies going on to come up with something like that.
It’s a better day today though. I get to beat on someone else’s laptop. I always enjoy doing this especially when I get blanket permission from the victim owner to do whatever to takes to make it all better. In this case the laptop in question is a 5 year old Dell with Windows XP installed that was bought from a local hardware store.
A hardware store?
Yes, it belongs to an average user who bought it from a hardware store that has a guy who works out of some back room selling Dell computers (sales and service type of thing I guess). The owner does have the knowledge to defrag the drive occasionally but trusted the guy she bought it from for everything else. Including the belief that the McAfee anti-virus suite was good forever and ever which, of course, went away 6 months after it was purchased.
Amazingly enough it still (mostly) functions.
Now let’s see, hammer, chisel, screwdrivers, 3 types of saws, jewelers files, drill…yup, I think I’m ready. Hope this thing is insured.
A simple technique for working on other peoples PCs -
First clear the hard disk [fdisk should do it?]
Then clear the memory [about 500V across the memory chips]
Clear residual cache and RAM [about 500V across the processor]
Wait ’til smoke clears and return to owner.
“But it was working perfectly before I returned it?” Hah!
Grandad´s last blog ..The breath of hell
Grandad – You been peeking over my shoulder or something? I also get a commission when I talk ‘em into letting me order them a new laptop. So why am I not richer already?
The last time anyone tried to “fix” my laptop, it turned into a bookend.
By the way, in your list of necessary supplies, you forgot masking tape, Elmer’s glue, and beer.
Larry Wallberg´s last blog ..Earworm Saturday #1
Larry – I use duct tape and Liquid Nails™ actually. The duct tape comes in a variety of colors as I feel it’s important to match the case color for aesthetic reasons after I
fryfix someone’s computer.