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Having once again been very lax with the blog, here we are again. One of our clients had a computer that would not boot up - it was dead until it started to bleep in agony but with no video, so nothing could be seen. Colin decided that it needed a bit of a make up so he went to the pound shop to buy some very expensive tools!These expensive tools were unfortunately of no avail. and there was no

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Having had a busy day.We started by testing video cards that we had in stock - both were sent for recycling. Two computers needed some TLC. The hard disks were checked with the Checkdisk utility and AVG anti virus was installed and updated. Both seemed to be working at the end of the session.

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As I was in the caravan for almost the whole month of August (and I will be setting out in it again this afternoon) this blog has not been updated for some time. Spent the first half of the month in the National Eisteddfod in Mold helping to run the caravan site (1000 pitches)We were very lucky with the weather as the caravan field had been flooded the week before we arrived, and we were very

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Today's surgery for me was rather a rushed affair, and I apologise for my rushed exit, and especially to Colin who had made me a very nice cup of coffee that had to be left suddenly so that I could go to sing with my choir in a wedding. Colin and Dai, under the watchful eye of Mike kept the surgery goung very efficiently.This is a snap of the Pelenna Valley Male Voice Choir on their trip to

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What a day! What a month! Flaming June and July Came into the Centre nice and wet. Cup of coffee first then the first problem was an old parallel port printer that could not be connected to a modern laptop. the ideal solution, unfortunately seemed to be a new printer, as a printer could be obtained cheaper than the adaptor cable. We are still working on a laptop that will not start. At the moment

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We have a rather difficult problem which has taken us some research to possibly resolve. One problem with old motherboards is that they are unable to recognise hard disk drives above a certain level. One way to get over this is to put on a "cap" jumper. The motherboard should then recognise the HDD but its capacity would be limited to the maximum allowed by the motherboard. We thought that it

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I have been very remiss about this blog of late!Today we were as usual very busy. The first job was to try to revive a computer found on a skip. Attempts were made to install XP, but without much success as we write!The next job was far more successful. A very slow E-Machines computer was brought in. We suspected a bad virus infection, but the easiest way to sort this out was to backup all

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Mid morning we were faced by the dreaded Blue Screen, and a computer refusing to boot up properlyWas itThe Power supply?The Hard Disk?Memory?Anything else???Power seemed OK, so the Ultimate Boot CD was employed. Even this caused problems so we looked at the processer, which seemed by now hot enough to cook lunch which was fast approaching. On removing the cooling fan for the processor, this is

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Very busy today. Saw Margaret who we met two weeks ago with the very nice Mac in the Doctors surgery - very happy with the computer, but still needs to connect to the internet.Left that surgery with my medication to go to the PC surgery.When I arrived, found Steve hard at work on a computer which had no power, but Colin seemed to be the one really lumbered with the job of sorting out the

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Busy time today once again, Margaret wanted to set up her new Mac - Very nice! but to us a learning curve as it was the first time to try out a Mac - could possibly be converted.Colin was kept busy installing a PCI USB2 card which really helped the transfer of data. The customers left feeling happy, and we could have a well deserved cup of coffee, as Boss Mike had to go off to college early.

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Very busy day at the dove to-day, having a plant sale,which is taking alot of hard work by the staff. preparing and setting out the plant`s

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Sorry there were no comments about the surgery last Friday, as my gum infection now seems to have developed into an abscess, so I had to make rather a rushed visit to the dentist in Neath!!After another week of antibiotics, this seems to be clearing (I hope!!!)

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Thank you for your very nice comments about us Debbie!

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Dai had a difficult job sorting out the sound and video and neededto download up to date drivers for the graphics card. At least we had a chance to have a cup of coffee kindly supplied by Steve.None of the downloaded drivers worked, so we suspected problems in the hard disc. New drivers caused the dreaded BLUE SCREEN. HELP!!! Checkdisc was run to try to improve matters, and problem left with

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Today we need to sort out Catherine's computer by sorting out its anti-virus which was out of date. Colin and steve loaded free AVG anti virus and AdAware. There was a problem with loading software for a Walkman MP3 player which was not charged. Debbie came to see us and help with the Blog as well as to check up on us. Her blog has been added to the links.Nicky at the Helm

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Nicky is now very happy to go for his lunch.

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Busy day today after recovering from the whole night looking at Television for the Assembly results. Windows XP was re installed to a computer which had been badly infected with viruses, which was a salutary reminder to all of us to have an up to date Virus Checker installed.Connecting a computer that has been brought into the centre to the Internet can be an absolute nightmare, and it makes it

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