Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #195 – FatGeek in the House
Topics discussed:
- Setting up a shop vs. working out of the home
- videos SSD to hard drive
- Mac laptops vs. windows
- SSD’s vs. hardrives: Monty has a comparison video here
- The future of SSD’s
- Using an Igo power supply
- Steve’s hackintosh using a I7 with snow leopard
Repairs:
- Laptop with 4 rouge “anti-virus” popups
- HP DV6000 laptop originally thought to be a DC jack problem, but had a motherboard board video problem, cured by heating solder joints with hair blower and replaced keyboard
- Other symptoms with solder problems known on the DV6000 are wireless problems, memory problems,video problems
- 2 HP DV7’s with broken screens, replaced both screens for $220 each
- Acer aspire 300 laptop: Cursor from touchpad is jerky after warmup as well as the keyboard failing, turned out to be problem with southbridge chip being confused by heavy diagnostics traffic because of a bad battery
- Current problem: Stinger POS (point of sale) device will not boot with peripherals connected
- Has video of dv1000 on web site makes video of teardowns for reference for reassembly
Emails/Voicemails:
- Use port name instead of IP address for network printers to avoid problems with dynamic IP
- Information on removing U3 technology on flash drive
- PStart from pegtop.net for USB flash drive to start applications instead of u3
- Microsoft SyncToy for backup
- Working on a Mac laptop
- Information on wireless devices vs. cell phone towers atcgrafiksshop.blogspot.com
- Password cracking tool on the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows: offline NT password and registry editor, Monty reccomends to tread carefully, and not to use it if the volume is encrypted
- Ophcrack password cracking tool
- Kaspersky Antivirus
- Use Vista Boot and Vista Boot Pro or iReboot from neosmart.net to overcome bootloader problems with Windows XP installed after Vista
- Microsoft Security Essentials is free
- AVG 9 may be lighter than 8
Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net and Luis Perez from GeekForce Guatemala
