Computer Frustrations

Today's nasty PC

Cleaned the very nasty PC, fixed the issue and got it back to the local business who rely on it

This PC was truly nasty. I cleaned it outside with a face mask on, then put my clothes in the washing machine and had a shower.

Today's disgusting computer!

This Macbook came in for a new battery. It was also reported that it would often slow down and freeze. With this amount of dust blocking the heatsink I'm not surprised. When CPUs get too hot they first throttle back their speed to try to reduce the temperature. If that doesn't work and the temperature increases further they can go into thermal shutdown to prevent damage.

I have been working on a Lenovo all-in--one pc that came in performing really slowly. The fans were very loud and the hard drive was very hot. After taking it apart you could see why, the fan airflow was almost completely blocked. After cleaning the fans and cloning the the half cooked hard drive onto an SSD the PC is performing better than ever.

This laptop was in for a RAM and SSD upgrade. I always check the fan/heatsink while the laptop is apart. This is why😃

Investigating a non-booting laptop I opened the case to remove the hard drive and found this!

Part way through a custom gaming pc I built last week. I can supply pcs to suit any budget!

Vindictive scammers used to lock people out of their computers using a little know Microsoft "feature" the Syskey password. Microsoft eventually removed this from Windows 10 as it was being misused. Scammers are now using a free utility called Lock My PC to lock their victims' computers. Fortunately there is a way to bypass the program.