Category: Podnutz Daily

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 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....

Podnutz Daily #83 – Taking Apart Laptops For No Reason

Ever use driverguide.com? They have every driver known to man. Free site but what a pain in the neck. You have to click through 10-15 ads to get the driver you need. Two...