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Podnutz Daily #92 – To All You Guys Out There

XP Desktop BSOD/Reboot After you get to the Windows login screen. Had to uncheck “Reboot on error” to see the BSOD error message 1. Right click My Computer....

Podnutz Daily #91 – It Wasn't The Hard Drive

MacBook running Quicken 2006 on Parallels: Windows XP in Parallels would run fine but Quicken would not. It would freeze, halt and just run strange. Tried several things...

Podnutz Daily #90 – Better Late Than Never

Vista Home Premium recovery tips: To repair the recovery partition, I ran Spinrite and it partially worked but I still did not get a full recovery. In the HP recovery...

Podnutz Daily #89 – It's Time To Get Lively

eMachines laptop with a power jack fix but it still kept shutting off after a few seconds. Overheating? Cleaned all the thermal grease off of the processor and reapplied...

Podnutz Episode 26: SuperAntiSpyware Creator, Nick Skrepetos

Nick Skrepetos joins us to discuss his program SuperAntiSpyware. How does SuperAntiSpyware get made? How to prevent spyware from attacking your machine How did Nick come...

Podnutz Daily #88 – Interesting Power Jack

What makes for an interesting power jack repair? – how to test for a power jack problem – this pc passed all of my tests – listen for the solution...

Podnutz Daily #87 – Where Did The CD Drives Go?

Go ahead, blame the leaf blower … Dell Dimension desktop needed cleanup. Customer calls the next day and states the CD drives do not work. They did not show up in...

Podnutz Daily #86 – What Else Can Go Wrong?

Remember the customer I had and I erased all of his data? (He was very understanding) I finally got his motherboard in. Replaced it called him for pick up. He came in to...

Podnutz Daily #85 – Love Working On Those Macs

Taking apart Macs: I have to say I love working on Macs. Everything is so nice and neat inside taped down in the correct spots and screwed in all nice and neat. Power...

Podnutz Daily #84 – Dirtiest Computer Of Them All

Question from Hamrad in the chat: How do you tell if the back light in a laptop is bad? Is it discolored? The inverter and the bulb can sometimes show the same symptoms....