Podnutz Daily #205 – Clive Of All Trades

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Steve is joined by Clive Struver from England.
He has two websites:seniorpcmoments.co.uk and westecbiz.co.uk and has a degree in electronics and computer science, worked for Motorola Semiconductors, before going into repairing computers.

Computer repairs:

  • PC crashing when streaming videos, inside overheating, found failed fan on power supply
  • Computer with problem, was told by by Dell to reformat, but not told to back-up data first (see the links below for various recovery tools used by Clive)
  • Ran across a wireless set-up that used MAC address filtering instead of setting up a SSID/password

Topics discussed:

Voicemails/Emails:

  • Testing LCD screens on dead laptops for parting out on eBay
  • Creating websites for computer repair tech’s
  • Getting Microsoft Expression Web at dreamspark.com for free with a valid student Email address
  • Steve’s favorite Laptop Screen sellers on eBay: dvdsuper999 and laptopaid

Steve reminds you about his Laptop Repair Videos specially priced at $54.95

Music provided by Evan King
Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net