Do Some PC Repair and Earn Money

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I've been busy these past 5 days repairing few desktops and a netbook. So I got a lot of work to do and of course earn few bucks. Some of the problems I've encountered regarding those desktops pertains to incompatible memory, overheating processor, video card, bad hard disk drive, and does formatting too. Beside, I'm making some sidelines too like LAN installation. In fact, yesterday I got one from our neighborhood.

Well, it's really hard managing my own business because I can't afford yet to hire someone to do the job. Right now, I'm just the one who is making a lot of effort in managing my own business. However, my family is there assisting me anyway.

Regarding those desktop, two of them was already turned over to the owner. The one had a problem with its memory, it doesn't fit into the slot so I replaced it with the right one which is a 128 DDR and format the drive since its been corrupted already. 

The other got a problem with its processor. Its overheating so I applied thermal paste around the processor replacing the old and dried one. Aside from overheating, the built-in graphics is seems not good enough so I suggested the owner to buy another motherboard for him to save more than maintaining the defective one. So I sold him my ASUS motherboard and closed the deal. It's been 3 days from now that I haven't got any feedback from the owner, so I assume that there was no problem so far.

Even at this time, I'm still doing some troubleshooting (regenerating HDD) while making this post. I still got 2 more PC to repair. I hope to finish them this day.

I'm enjoying my job and my life. I still have so many things to learn from my day to day activities in life and just want to share those ideas I learned in computer maintenance..

Computer Suddenly Restart

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You might wonder why sometimes all of a sudden a computer restarts without knowing what the problem was? I've encountered that few weeks ago. One of my neighbor and my cousin, got a problem regarding this. They brought to me their CPU's for check-up. Likely, I troubleshoot them in the normal way I did, just to identify the basic reasons why it does not open or an error messages appears restarting the computer again and again.

Sometimes, common problems may arise from a dusty memory or a weak video card. Or it might be that the thermal paste between your heat sink and processor has dried up. But to be sure enough, better check your computers health by pressing F2 or Delete key to proceed to Bios Setup. Look for the PC Health or CPU Temp to see whether CPU is overheating which is the reason why computer restarts after a few minutes or so or shutdown instantly.

However, if you'd already done in the bios setup and don't find anything wrong with the CPU temperature, or in the memory card, most likely the problem is in the hard drive or HDD. Perhaps try Chkdsk Utility, it might solved the problem. If you can't use Chkdsk in that CPU, try it into another CPU but make sure to set the pin into SLAVE to avoid conflict. Automatically, it will check your hard drive for bad files sector then will try to recover or delete those bad files. After the Chkdsk, take it back to its original CPU and turn it on. it should start windows normally and if not reformat it, which is the last option (windows is corrupted).