Logan IT onsite computer repair and maintenance services
Onsite computer repair support maintenance virus removal and installations in Warwick , Leamington , Stratford upon Avon , Coventry , Henley in Arden , Balsall Common , Claverdon , Southam , Wellesbourne , Kineton and Warwickshire . Telephone – 01926 350906 . Mobile – 07896 242565 . Email mobile@loganit.co.uk
Dentists this afternoon so our last job is a laptop repair in Leamington Spa the computer is a Dell Studio XPS. It has a fault on the screen unfortunately to repair it we need smaller Torx Screwdrivers than are currently in our Kit I.E. Smaller than T5 Torx so we have ordered a few sets of the smaller sizes and will be back here in a few days time.
Now we are at Kenilworth in Warwickshire to perform Computer Maintenance on a customers PC
Update: This turned out to be a router issue and just required to be reset along with the virgin cable modem.
For the next job today we are in Stoneleigh to maintain a computer for a customer, the main issue is checking the Antivirus on the PC and its reported to be running slow.
Update: The main thing effecting the speed of this Dell Studio laptop was the web control software supplied that was hogging resources so we removed this and other programs by editing the registry.
We also gave the customer some tuition on an Apple Macbook Pro.
First job this Afternoon I am at Kenilworth in Warwickshire we are here to repair the customers Dell computer system this looked as though we required the network card replacing , The Dell computer also required us to attempt a repair on its outlook PST Files.
UPDATE
For this Dell computer repair it turned out that the drivers for the existing network card needed updating from the Microsoft Windows updates and the Microsoft outlook issue was an error clearing the clean file flag and it required a hot fix from Microsoft installing to Repair this issue.
This afternoon we are in Kenilworth to attempt to recover a customers missing pictures from a laptop Computer.
Update Unfortunately the customer had done a factory reset on this machine and it might have been possible to retrieve some of the photos using another machine and running a recovery program but it would have taken a good 60 to 90 minutes to run the scan to find out if any thing survived, this time the customer said not worth recovering and asked me to reinstall the software and missing updates and antivirus.
This morning we are at Combrook Near Compton Verney between Wellesbourne and Kineton in Warwickshire to remove a root kit virus called “Smart Fortress 2012” this is going to be a scam to take money for a so called antivirus that claims you have thousands of virus’s or registry issues – standard scare tactic should be removable by editing the registry and running a Malwarebytes Scan.
Update : This malware was more trouble to remove than the previous version we had to run system restore and choose a date earlier than when the virus arrived, followed by a check on the registry and a full Malwarebytes scan.
Further Update : it turns out this arrived via an email claiming to be a Federal Express missed delivery and the customer had opened an attachment
This afternoon we on Ferndale Drive at Kenilworth in Warwickshire, we are here to do some maintenance on an old Desktop Computer running Windows XP and a Netbook PC connected to a BT Infinity Wireless Router.
On the Desktop Computer we updated the antivirus to a current Version , reinstalled the wireless Adaptor and checked the startup files and Edited the Registry.
Its worth noting that on installations of BT Infinity that I come across with the Router sat on top of the Openreach Modem seem to generate a lot more heat and appear to get speed issues so I would recommend that the modem is wall mounted to combat this or at least separate on the area that they are situated in.
This morning i spent an hour cleaning up a computer on the Welsh Road between Cubbington and Offchurch.
It had an update software from Macrovision running and this was holding a large percentage of the computers resources, Slowing the PC down and increasing the fan noise.
We disabled the updater and various other applications and left the Dell computer running well.
At Kenilworth in the morning to sort out an adsl wireless router , and help a little with google web page search stuff with @suecablephoto www.suecablephotography.co.uk .
Then the afternoon in Henley in Arden first setting up an Apple Mac with a virtual Windows using VMware Fusion happy to say that’s easier to do since i first set one up a good few years ago.
Followed by a trip to Yew Tree Farm Shop http://www.yewtreefarmshop.com/index.php/yew-tree-farm/ at Wootton Wawen to perform minor surgery to a dell laptop computer by disable a misbehaving mouse pointer.
Today started in Kenilworth to clean up an old desktop pc that was not booting, and help setup a new laptop.
Followed by setting up Windows networks shares for a firm of designers in Leamington Spa it seems no one likes file permissions.
Out at Whitnash today and it would appear that Sky are actually sending out letters warning about spam to there customers, But unfortunately they are basing the information on the reported ip address which changes if the user has unplugged the power to the router, as it happens on this computer the customer has unplugged the router on a regular basis.
We checked the customers machine and did find and remove rootkit virus , this is a virus that attaches it’s self to a main system file and can be pretty hard to find, also we have to change the password on the customers hotmail account it would seem the password had been stolen some how.
2nd job of the day is in the working units at The Mill on Mill Lane, Little Shrewley near Hatton here we have a HP Laserjet wireless Laserjet to install and make work correctly over the wireless network with an Apple Macbook Pro also to add to the fun it is using Sage accountant inside Parallels with Windows XP running virtually. this was all setup and tested much to the customers relief she had been using as left by another computer person with it connected via usb leads which i have to add looked dangerous.
This morning i have a computer in Warwick with no power getting to the machine. After checking the fuses (by the way its almost never the fuses or the power switch) and the mains , We put a new power supply unit in to the machine and tested it , This was all that was needed on this machine but a simular set of faults are apparent when the motherboard, processor or memory simm boards have a fault.
For the 3rd job of the day we are at Milverton in Leamington Spa for this one we had a Compaq PC with powerlights but no screen for this one we just needed to clean the contacts on the video and memory cards then reseat the processor.
2nd job of the day back in to warwick to setup an ipad and several laptop computers on a BT Wireless router all working with a wireless HP printer
Working for PL Tooling today at Honiley reconfiguring there Brother Multifunction Network Printer so that the scanner performs in the way that the customer Expects .
The next job is also in Kenilworth is to retrieve data from a broken laptop (To Expensive to repair as most likley needs a replacement Motherboard) and transfer to a new laptop all data recovered and a very happy customer.
First job Today is at Kenilworth Cleaning up a Hewlett Packard PC removing data and games and Setting up an email account. on this one as there was no data to keep we went straight to the emergency recovery partition and wiped the machine it was running very slow before the wipe after running like new and just needed the correct drivers for the added wireless adapter loading and a new email address for the new user.
This afternoon i am on Grange Gardens in Wellesbourne to see a computer that is giving a blue screen of death and rebooting. To be honest the machine is fairly aged but the data is important so we booted in to recovery console and attempted to read the drive this resulted in the “Drive can not be enumerated” error message and we then attempted to run a check disk on the harddrive, this is a 50/50 situation and takes a good 60 to 90 minutes to complete but as the data was urgent we tried it and suceeded.The important thing to remember is that although it was working straight after there still might be an issue with the hardrive so we left the customer backing up his data to an external hardrive.
UPDATE as is the case in murphy’s law 2 weeks after we did this the computer died again but the customer was happy due to the fact his data had been saved and he had taken on board the warning and updated his backup each time he used.
Good morning, We are with a customer in Kenilworth to repair a laptop with a code 19 error on thier CDRW drive.
This afternoon we are in Kenilworth, Warwickshire working for CLM Training, We are here to repair a laptop computer that is running slow and reload the audio drivers.
Today we are in Milverton, Royal Leamington Spa to Clean up a Laptop Computer, On this Computer the machine was running Slow.
To repair this computer we edited the registry and ran a malwarebytes scan.
Today we are in Wellesbourne to perform maintenance on a Dell desktop computer.
This morning we are repairing a dell 3000 Computer at Archery Road in Leamington Spa.
This morning we are at Wellesbourne in Warwickshire repairing a desktop computer that is running slow one issue that may occur here is that if the fan on the processor is pulling the air towards the heat-sink there will be a large deposit on it which will increase the heat and then the processor will shut down sections of the processor in case of failure. This one has a bit of a carpet on the processors heat sink but the main issue has been caused by some malware which we removed by editing the registry and running a Malwarebytes scan
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This morning we are at Kineton in Warwickshire with McGurk Performance Cars . We are here to repair one of the computers in the office it has an odd fault with the wireless, So we removed the Netgear Wireless PCI Card and added a new Wireless USB adapter.
Good afternoon we are now in Halford, Warwickshire to update an Antivirus on a Toshiba Laptop computer and a few other tasks
This morning we are at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire repairing a Compaq computer , updating the antivirus and creating a DVD backup.
This afternoon we are at a customers in kenilworth to repair a broken computer the main issue with it was that the wireless did not work and it required a new wireless adaptor.
Back to the customer at Stratford on Avon in Warwickshire to refit the replaced BT wireless router and test with all the customers wireless computer equipment.
We are currently in Kenilworth at a customers fixing a problem with Outlook 2002 the error we are getting is 0x8004210a, this is solved via a hotfix downloaded from microsoft
Good Morning Today we are at Coten End in Warwick to remove a trojan virus from a customers laptop computer.
Hello this morning we are with a customer in Warwick not to far from the hospital, We are here to repair the customers computer, the computer needed a new DVD writer to replace a faulty CDRW drive, and for some reason the printer needed reinstalling.
This afternoon we are at a customers in Kenilworth to back up there data, reformat and reinstall the computer then restore the customers data.
This morning we are at a customers in Kenilworth performing general maintenance and creating a backup of their computer.
This afternoon we are with Eastgate Engravers of Warwick, We are here because the customers Dell PC is running slow, To fix this we checked the registry ran a malwarebytes scan, updated any drivers that where available and finally made sure the Antivirus and Firewall are up to date.
Good Morning today we are with a customer in Haseley Knob between Wroxall, Beausale and Honiley the issue is the customers Laptop Computer is not booting up, We loaded in to Recovery Console and attempted to read the Harddrive this resulted in the Error “An error occurred during directory enumeration”, This mean’t the hardrive was unreadable at this point, we performed a hardrive recovery and was able to make the machine fully functioning again with the recommendation that the customer backs up any important data as would be possible that the drive is failing.
We are with a customer in Royal Leamington Spa to repair an email issue on a laptop computer.
This morning we are with 8clarendoncrescent.co.uk in Royal Leamington Spa to repair an issue with an old style dial up modem attached to a Toshiba laptop computer and other computer maintenance.
For our Last job today we are at a customers in Leamington Spa repairing an issue on a computer in which Internet Explorer is crashing when the customer is using Amazon.
