Unmountable Boot Volume in Kenilworth

We are in Kenilworth on Grange Avenue repairing a Computer that has the error “Unmountable Boot Volume”, We performed a recovery on the hard drive here and recommend that the customer should backup any important data in case the problem reoccurs.

Computer not Booting in Radford Semele

This morning we are at a customers in Radford Semele to repair a computer the fault with the computer is that it keeps loosing its time, Date and hard drive Settings, This is most likley to be a CMOS Battery issue so we opened up the case and found it needed a CR2032 battery which we changed and fixed the problem.

Computer not booting up at Wellesbourne

Good afternoon for our Last job today we are with a customers in Wellesbourne, We are here because the customer computer is not booting up and giving a “non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready” error to repair this we loaded the recovery console from CD and tried to read the drive this failed so we ran the recovery program this claimed to have fixed many faults and the drive was read able again. We rebooted the machine and all was fixed the customer has been told to back up any important or irreplaceable data like pictures in case the machine fails again.

Missing Drivers in Kenilworth

Good afternoon we are with a customers in Kenilworth to look at a Dell 5150 that has been  reformatted, To repair this computer i required to bring our Laptop Computer so i could download network drivers and transfer to the Dell, so then we can reinstall all the drivers required from the internet.

Broadband Trouble in Whitnash

Good Morning today we are starting at a customers on Palmer Road in Whitnash, We are here to look at the Customers Internet Troubles, Its determined that the trouble is caused by a faulty ADSL Modem which we replace and test.

Computer repair at Wellesbourne in Warwickshire

For the next job today we are at Alfresco Design Associates Limited at Wellesbourne in Warwickshire, We are here because the customers machine has been intermittently rebooting, This appeared to be a thermal issue on the processor as it was reaching 67 degrees C, The computer was fixed by removing dust and carpet hair from the top of the processors heat sink and fan when retested the processor was only reaching 36 degrees C.

As a general rule Intel processors halve the speed of the processor as soon as the temperature goes above 50 degrees Celsius to compensate and try to reduce the heat so if your reading above 50 degrees Celsius check your Processor Fan and make sure its working and not clogged up.

Computer Repair at Woodloes Park in Warwick

Good morning we are at a customers on the Woodloes in Warwick, the issue here is that the computer freezes intermittently and the webcam does not work correctly, it also gives a  “1628 Failed to complete Installation” error, to fix this one we required to edited the registry and install windows updates.

Computer Maintenance in Warwick

Good morning today we are with a customer on Beauchamp Road in Warwick, We are here to sort out issues with a printer, This turns out oddly to be a corrupt profile and to solve it we had to create a new user profile and copy the data and emails back in,Strangley this was also stopping the customer from adding her New USB printer.

 

Computer Rebooting in Warwick

Good afternoon we are in Warwick to repair a computer that is rebooting constantly, for this one we have booted up a CD in recovery console and attempted to read the drive this resulted in the error “An error occurred during directory enumeration” and meant the drive was currently unreadable, So we ran the recovery tool from the CD, this found and fixed errors on the hardrive this allowed us to load the computer and the customers data was recovered, The recommendation at this point is to make sure any important or irreplaceable data such as letters,accounts or pictures are all backed up to another media such as CD, Memory Stick or another hardrive as the possibility of the error reoccuring in a more problematic state could occur.

Computer Repair on the Percy in Warwick

Good Afternoon we are now at a customers on the Percy in Warwick, We are here because the customer’s desktop computer is running slow, To solve this we have to edit the registry and remove any unneed programs and tool bars, check the antivirus and run a spybot scan.

Update this one had a piece of Malware that calls it’s self Registry Optimizer in the add remove programs list it was only part of the issue but pretty much any thing that claims to optimize or speed up your computer is to be distrusted unless proven otherwise.

Computer Repair at Balsall Common in Warwickshire

For the next job today we are at Riddings Hill at Ballsall Common in Warwickshire to maintain a Laptop computer for a customer. The main thing we are here for is to check the Antivirus on the PC and the computer is reported to be running slow.
Update: The main thing effecting the speed of this Dell Studio laptop was the webcontrol software supplied was hogging resources so we removed this and other programs by editing the registry.
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Broadband Setup Stratford upon Avon (Bridgetown)

Good afternoon we are now with a customer at Bridgetown in Stratford upon Avon, our purpose here is to connect the customer laptop to connect the customers Laptop computer to the internet.

Update the issue here was with the Network driver so to repair it we had to remove the Intel Wireless adaptor reset winsock and the tcpip stack then rebooot and reinstall the drivers.

 

Computer Repair in Kenilworth

This Morning we are with a customer in Kenilworth, The customers Computer is not starting correctly and failing to boot up.

What had happened here was the processor had got to hot and started to shut down, which meant it had got so slow the computer had failed to shut down correctly  before the power had gone when the customer attempted to power down, so we cleaned up the Heat sink on the processor and ran a repair on the hard drive and left the machine in a working state backing up the data in case any further issues arise.

Broadband Change and Computer Maintenance in Leek Wootton

Good morning today we are with a customer at The Meadows in Leek Wootton near Warwick, We are here to change the customer over to Sky Broadband and have installed the supplied router, We have also updated the customers firewall and antivirus software and removed a shortcut for some thing called Platte Account as well as a few Trojan viruses.

Rescue Windows XP at Hatton Park

Good morning today we are at a customers in Mollington Grove at Hatton Park, We are here to rescue a laptop computer with Windows XP installed that is not booting, the issue is to far gone to be able to repair it normally and quickly we revert to backing up and reinstalling windows over the top in doing this we managed to recover the customers data and got the machine operating normally again.

Wireless Setup at Lighthorne Heath

This afternoon we are at a customers on the Stratford Road in Lighthorne Heath near Gaydon test track, We are here to setup a desktop computer with a Sky broadband router for this one we provided a Wireless USB adapter to allow the use of the computer upstairs and the router to remain downstairs.

Update we had a few issues with the lenght of line at this address but managed to get it working stably, Sky’s Support Telephone Number is 0870 600 5630 i checked online and broadband support should also be on 0800 0287855.

Computer Repair in Alveston

for my last job today i am with a customer in Alveston just outside Stratford upon Avon, We are here to repair the customers Toshiba Laptop Computer and check that the broadband connection to the internet is working.