DAY TEN OF OUR CHRISTMAS GIVE-AWAY COMPETITION
To go into the draw for one of 3, of our legendary computer health checks worth £59.99 each, all you have to do is LIKE our Facebook page and then share today's picture.
A blog about the day to day events within the computer and laptop repair workshop in Perth, Scotland http://www.pcsolutions.co.uk/
Showing posts with label laptop repairs perth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laptop repairs perth. Show all posts
Friday, 21 December 2012
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Day Nine of Our Christmas Give-Away Competition
DAY NINE OF OUR CHRISTMAS GIVE-AWAY COMPETITION
To go into the draw for one of 4, bumper 3 title PC Game Packs, all you have to do is LIKE our Facebook page and then share today's picture.
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Day Eight of Christmas Give-Away Competition
DAY EIGHT OF OUR CHRISTMAS GIVE-AWAY COMPETITION
To go into the draw for one of 5, very cool ASUS Computer Toolkits, all you have to do is LIKE our Facebook page and then share today's picture.
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Day Seven of Christmas Give-Away Competition
DAY SIX OF OUR CHRISTMAS GIVE-AWAY COMPETITION
Free Christmas Mincemeat Pies & Coffee in Perth
Free Christmas Mincemeat Pies & Coffee at PC Solutions
If you are in Perth between now and Christmas, why not pop in to PC Solutions for a free coffee and mincemeat pie??
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| Free Coffee & Mincemeat Pies |
PS Hot chocolate is also available and free
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Day Two of PC Solutions Christmas Give Away
Today's prize for the draw is 11 * 8GB memory sticks.
Memory sticks are always useful especially at 8GB!
All you have do to be entered into the draw, is to LIKE and SHARE the picture on our PC Solutions Facebook page
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Photo Caption Winner
The winner of the Photo Caption Competition, Douglas Eadie collecting his prize from Donald
Monday, 3 December 2012
The Boss Is Going Soft
As it's heading towards Christmas and ONLY because there is snow on the ground, the Boss has kindly let us put the new workshop heaters on.
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Laptop and MacBook Screen Repairs
Nearly everyday, a laptop is brought into our laptop repair workshop in Perth with a screen looking like this:
Our laptop repair service also includes screen repairs and replacement on MacBooks
These due to the construction of these laptop screens, they are not repairable and have to be replaced.
In this state, the laptop is unusable but you could connect a monitor to the VGA port or in the case of newer laptops to a TV via the HDMI port.
Usually the data is safe unless the damage to the laptop screen was caused by the laptop being dropped or knocked off a table/ counter top.
Believe it or not, apart from dropping a laptop, one of the most common causes of a cracked laptop screen is a result of it having been stood on!
So if you have the misfortune to be suffering from a cracked or smashed laptop screen, bring it along to our Laptop Repair Centre in Perth and we'll do our very best to get the laptop repaired ASAP
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| Laptop Screen Replacement |
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| MacBook Screen Replacement |
These due to the construction of these laptop screens, they are not repairable and have to be replaced.
In this state, the laptop is unusable but you could connect a monitor to the VGA port or in the case of newer laptops to a TV via the HDMI port.
Usually the data is safe unless the damage to the laptop screen was caused by the laptop being dropped or knocked off a table/ counter top.
Believe it or not, apart from dropping a laptop, one of the most common causes of a cracked laptop screen is a result of it having been stood on!
So if you have the misfortune to be suffering from a cracked or smashed laptop screen, bring it along to our Laptop Repair Centre in Perth and we'll do our very best to get the laptop repaired ASAP
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
New Minecraft Server
PC Solutions New Minecraft Server
Part of daily life here at PC Solutions is to tend the the animals. We are keeping cows and chickens on our farm. Donald and myself have had the fun of setting up and running a Minecraft server. So far we have manage to keep the Creepers and Arrowmen at bay but more information later on public access soon...
Part of daily life here at PC Solutions is to tend the the animals. We are keeping cows and chickens on our farm. Donald and myself have had the fun of setting up and running a Minecraft server. So far we have manage to keep the Creepers and Arrowmen at bay but more information later on public access soon...
If you are a Gamer, check out our custom design and build service for gaming systems
Friday, 2 November 2012
A Scoobie Thank You
A customer brought in a pile of biscuits to say thanks for some laptop repair work we did for him.
We just love a wee Scoobie Snack on a Friday afternoon in the laptop repair workshop.
We just love a wee Scoobie Snack on a Friday afternoon in the laptop repair workshop.
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Laptop Repair Horrors
For some strange reason and perhaps because today is Halloween, lots of troublesome and difficult laptops have been brought in for repair.
The laptops are suffering from smashed screens, lost BIOS passwords, liquid spills and stripped screws to name but a few of the faults we are currently working to repair.
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| Laptop Repairs In Progress |
Thursday, 25 October 2012
PC Solutions Practical Joker
Our computer repair team are highly skilled, highly focused and very creative with find solutions to folk's computer problems.
We encourage the work hard play hard philosophy but sometimes this can spill over into practical jokes when we have a very rare break from repairing computers.
Our Chief Engineer Donald is the leading culprit with respect to trolling the Boss.
Can you tell what is wrong with this picture and it's not the liquid or the lid:
We encourage the work hard play hard philosophy but sometimes this can spill over into practical jokes when we have a very rare break from repairing computers.
Our Chief Engineer Donald is the leading culprit with respect to trolling the Boss.
Can you tell what is wrong with this picture and it's not the liquid or the lid:
The answer is:
He very carefully and skillfully used a hot glue gun to permanently fix the bottle of water to the computer hard drive.
There is no visible indication of the 'connection' until you pick the bottle up
Nice one Donald but the Boss will be much wiser next time!!
Friday, 28 September 2012
Computer Engineers Like Their Food
Dare I say it but we are heading towards the Christmas season.
The plus side is that we have our first box of Mince Pies for our 11's snack :) :)
The plus side is that we have our first box of Mince Pies for our 11's snack :) :)
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Meet Andy our New Padawan
Andy Stevenson has joined PC Solutions as a Modern Apprentice or Padawan
Under the watchful eye of Master Computer Jedi Donald, Andy will be given full training in using The Force to repair, build and customise all manner of laptops & computers in the Millennium Falcon based in Perth.
His first mission is to hone his use of The Force to defeat the Dark Side's use of viruses to attack innocent's computers.
Pop in and say Hi to Andy if you are in Perth
Friday, 13 July 2012
A Most Embarrassing Computer Problem
A very distraught lady brought her laptop in with a problem.
Her son had thought it would be funny if he were to change the Windows Default Sound Scheme to something different.
The lady in question had connected her laptop to a projector and a large PA sound system to deliver a presentation when she discovered the fault:
Her son had changed the default to sound to a sound best described as a breaking wind sound.
To make matters worse, the fault was revealed in full stereo to a packed meeting room!!
Our computer repair engineers very quickly removed the offending sound clip and replaced it with the normal Windows Sound Scheme.
The last we heard, the Son was still paying the price!
Her son had thought it would be funny if he were to change the Windows Default Sound Scheme to something different.
The lady in question had connected her laptop to a projector and a large PA sound system to deliver a presentation when she discovered the fault:
To make matters worse, the fault was revealed in full stereo to a packed meeting room!!
Our computer repair engineers very quickly removed the offending sound clip and replaced it with the normal Windows Sound Scheme.
The last we heard, the Son was still paying the price!
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Laptop Repairs in Perth, Scotland
This video clip shows Alex one of our computer repair engineers performing some major surgery to fix a laptop.
Not all laptops require such major work but we fix everything from software problems, screen replacement, laptop power port repairs to get your laptop operational again where possible.
Alas there are occasions (very rare) that we have to apply the humane killer to some laptops that are beyond economical repair.
Not all laptops require such major work but we fix everything from software problems, screen replacement, laptop power port repairs to get your laptop operational again where possible.
Alas there are occasions (very rare) that we have to apply the humane killer to some laptops that are beyond economical repair.
Monday, 11 June 2012
Laptop Power Port Repairs In Perth
One of the most common laptop repairs we do is DC jack replacement.
To put you out of your misery, a DC jack is the mains port, the power port, the changing port or the port that you plug the charger into.
These ports are designed to be sacrificial in that it is cheaper to repair the power port that the mother board.
As we do a huge number of laptop repairs, we are now able to offer a fixed price price for all laptop power port repairs. Just £69.99 for any laptop port repair, backed up by our No Fix No Fee guarantee.
To put you out of your misery, a DC jack is the mains port, the power port, the changing port or the port that you plug the charger into.
These ports are designed to be sacrificial in that it is cheaper to repair the power port that the mother board.
As we do a huge number of laptop repairs, we are now able to offer a fixed price price for all laptop power port repairs. Just £69.99 for any laptop port repair, backed up by our No Fix No Fee guarantee.
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| We Repair The Impossible! |
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Viruses Hiding in Plain Sight
A client brought an Acer desktop into our computer repairs facility with the complaint that the system was crashing and blue screening at random.
When diagnosing a computer fault, one of the keys is to identify a pattern. Once we can replicate the issue on a regular basis then we can trouble shot the actual cause and through a process of elimination, we can cure the computer fault much quicker.
This particular desktop would as the user had stated, crash at random. Our computer engineers spent some time checking various items including the Norton Internet Security which reported all was well.
On a hunch, we removed Norton, and ran a virus check. The first pass removed 3 infections. On closer inspection, the viruses were hiding in the Norton installation so hiding in plain sight if you will. A rather clever way to camouflage unauthorised activity.
In all we removed over 200 viruses from this desktop. Once the machine was stable ie all the virus infections were removed, we we able to repair the damage to Windows and the computer is now running perfectly.
Remember:
No internet security product can or will give you 100% protection
Just because you have internet security installed does not mean that your computer does not have a virus infection.
Other users of your computer might not be so selective about their on-line activities.
BTW We use Bullgard Internet Security.
When diagnosing a computer fault, one of the keys is to identify a pattern. Once we can replicate the issue on a regular basis then we can trouble shot the actual cause and through a process of elimination, we can cure the computer fault much quicker.
This particular desktop would as the user had stated, crash at random. Our computer engineers spent some time checking various items including the Norton Internet Security which reported all was well.
On a hunch, we removed Norton, and ran a virus check. The first pass removed 3 infections. On closer inspection, the viruses were hiding in the Norton installation so hiding in plain sight if you will. A rather clever way to camouflage unauthorised activity.
In all we removed over 200 viruses from this desktop. Once the machine was stable ie all the virus infections were removed, we we able to repair the damage to Windows and the computer is now running perfectly.
Remember:
No internet security product can or will give you 100% protection
Just because you have internet security installed does not mean that your computer does not have a virus infection.
Other users of your computer might not be so selective about their on-line activities.
BTW We use Bullgard Internet Security.
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