MOBILE COMPUTER REPAIRS

I have been heavily involved in the computer field as a hobby for 22 years, since Clive Sinclair managed to sell me a Sinclair ZX80 computer in late 1979. This computer had 1 kilobyte of memory!! and connected to the television. You could program it with its in built Basic Language and many a happy hour was spent keying in programs out of magazines and then spending even longer debugging the code that you had incorrectly entered. I progressed from this to a Compukit UK101 computer, which had a massive 8 kilobytes of memory, based on a home brew kit from the USA. It still connected to the TV and had glorious black and white graphics and no sound. From there I was seduced by the Acorn's BBC Computer with 32 kilobytes of memory, full colour TV output, floppy disk drives and sound. This was a marvellous piece of kit for it's day and it can still be found in lots of schools today. I was then introduced to the Atari ST with a whopping 512 kilobytes of memory, which I increased to 1 megabyte, but still using floppy disks as the main storage device. It had better sound and graphics than the BBC and it could be attached to a colour monitor for better graphics and the game Starglider had to be seen to be believed!!. Then came the Amstrad 80386 PC which had 4 Megabytes of memory, Dos 5 and Windows 3.0, colour VGA Monitor and a 65 Megabyte Hard Drive!! There was no way I would ever manage to fill that hard drive!! From this PC I have gradually improved and increased the speed of my present beast, which has 512 Megabytes of PC2700 Memory, 200 Gigabytes of hard drive space, a 2.8 Gig Athlon processor, DVD Writer, 2 Meg Broadband, etc., etc.

I have been building and repairing PC's for 20 years or more and I think that I have a good a knowledge of the PC as anyone locally and I have yet to find a problem that cannot be fixed by one means or another. Most of todays problems are not hardware based at all, but problems with Windows 95/98/XP, either due to Windows Registry errors, faulty removal of previously installed programs, wrong hardware drivers installed, viruses, malware, trojans, spyware and all manner of software problems. But some problems need the drastic measure of a complete format of the hard drive and a reinstall of windows and all the associated software that you use, to cure them 100 percent. But this involves a lot of work and the knowledge to do this in the first place and can take you 2 or 3 days to get back to where you started.

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