Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #141 – Crazy People
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Crazy customer story from the shop.
TIP: Crazy customers drive away the sane customers.
Dell desktop with noisy fan:
– CPU fan is mounted on the side of the case
with a green plastic tunnel over it for air flow to the processor.
– Using hot glue to silence a vibrating fan
Tip:
Save the foam that ships with motherboards
Put these under laptops you are repairing to prevent scratches.
Craigslist scammers are getting better.
Which means the buying is getting riskier.
– a few tips on how to spot them
Motherboard replacements:
When computers do not boot after a motherboard replacement
– Looking for solutions
How to install a motherboard without reinstalling Windows-
(she is completely aware this link is not kosher.
cool 404 though — it stands.)
Voice mail from Barbra:
No, she was not yelling! She was thanking Steve.
He saved her lots of time this week on jobs
due to the knowledge gained from this podcast.
regarding the use of OEM disks for reinstalling Windows.
Email from Ray:
Product Key issues on reinstall
(The Product Key on the sticker did not work)
No image of the drive made (admitted: cardinal rule)
MS would not give a new key
since he did not have an original disk.
Email from new listener Brad:
What ever happened to the laptop videos?
— They are a work in progress.
— Rendering a video in HD takes a lot of time
Repairing vs Replacing a MoBo
What are some good ways to learn how to repair MoBos?
— Steve talks about replacing capacitors
— Motherboards are cheap. Why repair?
Email from Bob:
Netbook question – Cloning the OS and putting it on a thumbdrive?
— It’s not cloning. You are copying your Windows Disk to a thumbrive.
Email from David:
BluRay disk drive with Media Center 3rd party plug-in
— I went with a blu-ray drive and bought ArcSoft TotalMedia Theater
— It works very well with Vista Media center
— Amazing picture!
— More on the Samsung 6 series LCD TV
Email from Jason:
– More on the Vista Product Key
64 vs 32 bit via the product key
– Check your default power settings to increase your speed
– Under Power Settings choose “High Preformance” over default.
– How to get your oem and sell copies!
Email from Mark on Yellow Page advertising:
– He was partly successful with his ads.
– Size matters with ads
Email from Roger:
How to easily repair the registry
Registry Restore Wizard from the UBCD
Steve admits to watching Cars by Pixar in blu-ray .. more than once.
Email from Terry:
What do YOU do?
When you realize via attempting to update the computer
that the customer is running a bootleg version of Windows?
— Sometimes Genuine Advantage is wrong — call MS
— If it is bootleg? Offer to sell a Genuine Copy
