No Broadband – Sky engineer

July 29, 2011

I visited a customer in Salisbury yesterday who had lost his broadband internet connection. I checked that it wasn’t a problem with his computer as I’d remembered to take my laptop with me. Once I knew that the problem was with the network I checked all the connections which all seemed to be fine....

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Laptop Repairs Salisbury

July 25, 2011

Did you know that we also offer laptop repairs in Salisbury Please call us on Salisbury 328867 if we can repair a laptop for you

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Data loss

July 25, 2011

Imagine coming into the office one morning if you will. You press the power button your trusty computer and nothing happens. After checking that your computer is actually plugged in you start to worry. “What am I going to do now?” Suddenly you remember the old laptop in the cupboard and fire it up…...

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New computer in salisbury

July 25, 2011

Had quite a busy morning here in Salisbury. A customer contacted me the other day to say that he’d ordered a new Dell desktop PC as his existing one was coming up to 6yrs old and that it was well past it. He’d left it boxed up and asked whether i would drop by...

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Apple iBook G4 hard drive data recovery

July 25, 2011

A few days ago I was contacted to see if i could recover some data from the hard drive of an Apple iBook G4. This is a small laptop released in around 2003 and seemed to be quite popular with Apple enthusiasts. Sadly, this little apple had suffered water damage to the motherboard and...

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Failed motherboard on HP laptop

July 25, 2011

Fairly quiet day today although I’ve been asked to look at an HP DV9500 that appears to have a blown motherboard. If he’s correct then it wouldn’t be the first one i’ve seen of late. For some reason HP seem to have a problem with motherboards on their laptops.. Whether it’s worth fixing is...

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