Alienware 5500i-R3 – A HOT video card
Coincidental that my next repair post would be about another Alienware machine. They are just damn sexy though. Like the little alien head that lights up LOL. My lawn guy, Mark, called me yesterday about some laptops his son wanted to get rid of – neither of them working. He came through the door with […]
Coincidental that my next repair post would be about another Alienware machine. They are just damn sexy though. Like the little alien head that lights up LOL. My lawn guy, Mark, called me yesterday about some laptops his son wanted to get rid of – neither of them working. He came through the door with an HP that expectedly had a dead mobo. That one I ruled out right off the bat. The other was an Alienware 5500i-R3 laptop. A...
Recovering your AlienWare M11X-R2 Laptop
I recently got handed an Alien laptop – an Alienware M11x-R2 to be exact. Nice little Dell it is. However, it apparently had a problem that former intern, Logan, couldn’t fix on his own…. So his dad, Ronnie Cole, dropped it off last week. Stuck in an endless setup cycle – anyone who’s done computer […]
I recently got handed an Alien laptop – an Alienware M11x-R2 to be exact. Nice little Dell it is. However, it apparently had a problem that former intern, Logan, couldn’t fix on his own…. So his dad, Ronnie Cole, dropped it off last week. Stuck in an endless setup cycle – anyone who’s done computer repair has gotten into this before – Windows keeps wanting to go back into the “setup”...
Chasing down computer repairs in Clayton
I guess all my technicians have to go through it once. If you have read “The Neverending Computer Repair”, then you understand that I have been sucked into neverending computer repairs before. You start on a computer repair, you solve a number of problems but there are still a few. You try one thing and […]
I guess all my technicians have to go through it once. If you have read “The Neverending Computer Repair”, then you understand that I have been sucked into neverending computer repairs before. You start on a computer repair, you solve a number of problems but there are still a few. You try one thing and it doesn’t quite fix it, but you’ve got another brilliant idea. Well, that fix didn’t quite do it...
Stupid Outlook! Won’t open up the URL when I click on it!
I’ve been setting up a new computer for the last week or so. This kind of thing is never a quick thing. And it’s held up when there are idiotic little issues popping up. Here’s the latest snappy fix. Every time I click on some URL in my Outlook 2007, instead of quickly opening up […]
I’ve been setting up a new computer for the last week or so. This kind of thing is never a quick thing. And it’s held up when there are idiotic little issues popping up. Here’s the latest snappy fix. Every time I click on some URL in my Outlook 2007, instead of quickly opening up Firefox, I get a General failure. The URL was: …. An error occurred in sending the command to the application. Thanks to the...
Mac on a Dell Laptop
Thought I had seen most everything. Until a few days ago. We got in a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with Mac OS on it. OS X 10.6 was installed. Interesting. Whoever had it obviously had spent some time on it getting it to work. Had MS Office on it, several Adobe web dev apps. Overall […]
Thought I had seen most everything. Until a few days ago. We got in a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with Mac OS on it. OS X 10.6 was installed. Interesting. Whoever had it obviously had spent some time on it getting it to work. Had MS Office on it, several Adobe web dev apps. Overall pretty nice. Sadly I updated the 10.6 Mac OS – the updates were numerous – and it rendered it inoperable. This however introduced some sort of...
The Neverending Computer Repair
I can’t even begin to count how many times it has happened to me. I start on a computer repair that looks pretty simple and it turns into the never-ending nightmare. My technical manager, Jim Singleton, ended up on one of those a couple nights ago. It was a blue screen error that just didn’t […]
I can’t even begin to count how many times it has happened to me. I start on a computer repair that looks pretty simple and it turns into the never-ending nightmare. My technical manager, Jim Singleton, ended up on one of those a couple nights ago. It was a blue screen error that just didn’t seem to respond to anything normal. Running Vista 64 bit Home Premium, it was an error with the IA drivers – the ones that...
