Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #212 – It's Fun Being Your Own Boss
Steve C. is joined by Steve D’Amico fromSMD computer and can also be found on his EBay store
Computers worked on:
- Customer had a dead computer, Steve D. went there and found the computer had been powered down due to a reset from windows update
- HP ZV5000 Laptop with what seemed like a power jack problem, Steve D. ordered a new jack, but still had intermittent power problems, tried a different style jack with success
Steve D.’s Ebay tips:
- Use advanced search terms, for instance within a category
- Know your hardware terms such as bezel for searching
- Use wildcards such as asterisks(*) in search
- Search tips: include store inventory
- You can use search terms like google including the minus sign to exclude certain items
- sometimes a whole laptop may be available for the price of the part you’re looking for, the extra parts may be usable for other jobs
- For an laptop LCD replacement, sometimes you can find the whole lid for the same price
- Look for OEM part numbers on name brand parts such as motherboards
- Look for variations in model numbers using wildcards
- For selling obscure parts or parts that will take time to sell, you should open an ebay store
- To open an Ebay store Steve D. recommends a minimum of a 100 parts to sell
Topics discussed:
- Pros and Cons of being self-employed
- Steve D. stocks hardware such as optical mice when deals arise for later sales
- Replacing bulbs in Laptop screens
- Steve C.’s Website development product is coming soon
Voicemails/Emails:
- DoorToDoorGeek calls with info about Windows 7 system restore, rebuilding the page file versus defragging the page file, and communicating with people
- Winston has a Compaq pressario c700 that gives an irq error when booting, boots OK into Ubuntu, Steve C. thinks it’s a software bug with Windows 7
- Amy has an Acer inspire one 150 netbook with a locked bios, Steve C. recommends pulling the Bios CMOS battery and see if that clears the password
- Tom writes about a computer that had problems after a driver install, he later found that was unrelated when he used Crystal Disk Info and it showed a marginal hard drive
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Steve reminds you about his Laptop Repair Videos
Music provided by Evan King
Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net
