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Podnutz Daily #140 – XBOX 360 Red Rings Of Death

My first Xbox 360 came into the shop today – Troubleshooting red rings of death Stuck keys on a laptop due to spills? – Just replace the keyboard –...

Podnutz Daily #139 – No Video, No Startup on a DV6000

It’s getting tougher to clean PCs because the malware is getting smarter – Sometimes changing the name of mbam.exe still will not allow it to load. –...

Podnutz Daily #138 – Bad Hard Drive In DV6000

HP DV6000 laptop would hang at the bios screen This is an indication the hard drive is bad .. because the bios is trying to communicate with the hard drive. OEM Vista...

Podnutz Daily #137 – Love Those Junkers

Encreamated = Encrypted (?) Helping my business neighbors The electronics shop down the street handed me 2 junker computers to fix (at a lower rate) Junker = celeron 233...

Podnutz Daily #136 – Computer Wouldn't Shut Down

eMachines computers are good for giving us problems: This one presented rebooting after holding in the power button No shutdown .. simply rebooting. Motherboard has a 24...

Podnutz Daily #135 – XP Antivirus 2010 Rears It's Head

XP Antivirus 2010 would not allow upgrades/updates of Norton Cheezy program with a fake Windows Security Center Fake Blue Screen Fake Windows rebooting screen …...

Podnutz Daily #134 – Bad Capacitors in GX270

Dell Optiplex GX270 are famous for fried motherboards Customer had issues with crashing and virtual memory errors. We upgraded both the processor and the memory .. and...

Podnutz Daily #132 – Registry Corruption

Corruption error in the registry path: windows/system32/config/system A Windows Restore will bring your registry back to health. Or you can repair (As I have in the...

Podnutz Daily #131 – Voicemails and Emails Today

Voice Mail from Andrew in Upstate NY: Follow up on new spyware with thin red icon: Rapid AntiVirus A windows startup screen as a screensaver ComboFix removed the...

Podnutz Daily #129 – Motherboard Died – Spooky.

Creepy Tech Story: Motherboard dies in conjuction with the death of its owner. (and where can I get that program for my hard drives?) Email from Mitch in IA: More on...