by Shane Grantham | Dec 14, 2018
One weeknight around 8PM an email was received from a business client. A seven year-old Toshiba satellite laptop wouldn’t power-on for my client. They thought the battery was the problem and rather diagnose through email, I said I’d come out the next...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 5, 2018
A few weeks ago a Fort Wayne computer repair client asked me to replace the CPU fan in their HP Pavilion laptop. They bought the replacement fan and delivered it to me with the laptop. The fan noise was very loud and from my experience, it was failing. Most...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 19, 2018
A frantic call was received from one of my Fort Wayne Computer repair clients last week. They were in the middle of a project for one of their clients and walked away from the laptop. On their return, Windows 7 displayed a “shutting down Windows” message...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 8, 2018
I had a new computer repair client today with a laptop problem. Their two year-old laptop would charge occasionally but most of the time it wouldn’t. My client had three different AC adapters or otherwise known as chargers and they reasoned one of them should be...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 1, 2017
I was helping a client compare two computers on Cyber Monday so they could choose one. They were both laptop/tablet convertibles. The HP had a three year warranty and the Dell had one year so the HP wins here. The HP had two drives: an SSD for the operating system...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 27, 2017
This weekend I was messing around with an old Dell business laptop which still had its original operating system, Windows XP, installed. I wanted to see if the laptop would let me install Linux Mint 18.2 on it and allow Windows to remain functional in a dual-boot...
