Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #51 – Today, I Have a Problem
Yes, It is episode #51
*Rough Day*
Thank you for those of you who have entered the iPod Nano Contest.
I will be giving it away this Friday August 8th 2008
And I will reveal tomorrow who won the extra entries
for the trivia question from yesterday.
Only a few people who entered!
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The landscapers dos program overwrote
his new data that he entered onto his other laptop.
I need HELP because I messed up BIG TIME today
(5 extra entries awarded towards the iPod Nano contest)
Please help me find a program that will recover data
even if it has been overwritten!
(No Skype calls tonight – left the Macbook at the shop)
Dell PowerJack repair:
(one of those power jacks that I hate)
Big tube of a middle pin and
the adapter itself is a thin tube itself that slides over the middle.
Ridiculously built.
Tip:
Sometimes when you replace that jack
sometimes the leads don’t go through
the motherboard very far.
You have to make sure
you make a connection with your solder
with those leads onto the motherboard!
Use a layer of epoxy — not a conductor.
Dad had a kick-butt-day repairing and going to the next.
Made up for my slack.
Email from Jeffery:
Computer after a storm no longer works.
When modem is removed the computer will POST
but Windows XP will not boot.
Very odd.
Booting with XP CD will also freeze.
Tried booting Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
but this also freezes.
Ran hard drive and memory tests. Both render OK.
Changed out memory, power supply and cmos battery
.. no change
Could the motherboard/cpu be damaged?
Tip: Run a bootable CD without the HD in the system
If it runs.. it is the hard drive.
If not it is the SytemBoard.
Colin emails about SpinRite:
He refers to Computer America Show with Scott Moulton as a host.
Scott Moulton stated that one of the downsides of SpinRite is that
it recovers data to the same failing hard drive
without the option to recover to a different drive.
(Computer America 2.26.2008 1st hour)
Email from Red:
I repair about 10 PCs a year and none of them
get blown out by a leaf blower!
Red recommends a compressor.
The leafblower I mentioned for the job was a very light
battery-powered leaf blower. Not the industrial.
