This evening/Morning I was talking to my good friend Darryl about the idea of setting up a computer shop. In between him writing his film essay we juggled with the idea of setting up a shop together. the idea is becoming increasingly tempting. I would be lying if I didn't say I thought about leaving university to start one.
Suddenly I seem to have found a purpose with my life and I think this is what I genuinely want to do. of course I would like to have a degree but I would love to have my own computer shop. One thing I haven't mentioned yet is that I worked as a computer engineer for about one and a half years. It was the most fun I think I've even had working. Yes you get complete idiots coming in with problems they could have solved if they read the manual but you also get people who know nothing about computers and have tried to solve the problem with no luck. those are the people that I find rewarding to help. They are the people that thank you for the work and don't complain that's its not their fault they didn't know how to get capital letters(true story).
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 December 2007
Computer "support"
Fickle things laptops. Sometimes they can be really easy to take apart and other times they can be completely.....unfriendly. This evening i had the unfortunate luck of coming across one of these unfriendly chaps.
the problem was simple. Laptop continuously shutdown due to over heating.
Now, this is a common problem with laptops as the air that is pulled into the laptop tends to go though thin gaps between the heat sink fins. The dust that goes though these fins gets stuck and bungs the entire thing up. Now normally this is just a simple task of popping the keyboard and removing the heat sink and giving it a good dusting. However in this case the bastard refused to allow me to remove the keyboard until I removed almost every screw from the laptop! Finally after 1/2 an hour of fighting with the 'thing' I managed to pop the keyboard and remove the heat sink revealing about an inch of dust icing. Out comes the hover and I proceed to dust and clean. It was at this point the "customer" decided to press her fingers onto the exposed processor and mistaking the HTC(heat transfer compound) as dust, pushing most of the the HTC off the processor and end up with a large amount of HTC on their fingers. Now without an even amount of HTC the heat cannot efficiently transfer from the processor to the heat sink. I unfortunately do not have any HTC on my so i reassenbled the laptop praying that the bloody thing worked. 20 seconds into starting the machine it hangs.
Restart.
Hangs again.
Restart again.
Hangs again.
Moral of the story: If you think a customer is going to poke what your working on, make sure you poke out their eyes first.
the problem was simple. Laptop continuously shutdown due to over heating.
Now, this is a common problem with laptops as the air that is pulled into the laptop tends to go though thin gaps between the heat sink fins. The dust that goes though these fins gets stuck and bungs the entire thing up. Now normally this is just a simple task of popping the keyboard and removing the heat sink and giving it a good dusting. However in this case the bastard refused to allow me to remove the keyboard until I removed almost every screw from the laptop! Finally after 1/2 an hour of fighting with the 'thing' I managed to pop the keyboard and remove the heat sink revealing about an inch of dust icing. Out comes the hover and I proceed to dust and clean. It was at this point the "customer" decided to press her fingers onto the exposed processor and mistaking the HTC(heat transfer compound) as dust, pushing most of the the HTC off the processor and end up with a large amount of HTC on their fingers. Now without an even amount of HTC the heat cannot efficiently transfer from the processor to the heat sink. I unfortunately do not have any HTC on my so i reassenbled the laptop praying that the bloody thing worked. 20 seconds into starting the machine it hangs.
Restart.
Hangs again.
Restart again.
Hangs again.
Moral of the story: If you think a customer is going to poke what your working on, make sure you poke out their eyes first.
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