by Shane Grantham | Feb 4, 2019
Once in a while one of my computers has a problem and I have to troubleshoot it. Recently, a Linux PC of mine wouldn’t boot into Linux for me when I wanted to work on my web site. The splash screen showed the hard drive and CD ROM drive so I knew they were...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 30, 2019
Computer professional like me have computer and technology problems just like everyone else. If I don’t know how to solve it immediately, sometimes I find a workaround or I just live with it. My main office computer has Linux as the operating system and it has...
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 | Jun 15, 2017
I break down computer problems into four areas: hardware, software, operating system, and user. With the complexity of today’s computers, it’s hard to know where to start troubleshooting sometimes. If I suspect hardware is the culprit, I might be lucky and...