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Brighton Computer Upgrades : SSD upgrade for an old laptop

Another day, another old laptop being badly slowed down by a worn out dying hard disk. After a complete 1 for 1 data clone onto a brand new high speed SSD this old dog was now up and running like a racing greyhound! My customer was pleasantly surprised at just how much of a difference the new SSD made to the bootup, shutdown and overall use of her laptop.

Mark JANSEN

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DIGITAL INSITE

Adelaide Onsite Computers + Support

Mobile : 0404 110 526

Office : (08) 8387 9023

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Adelaide Computers + Support : Need a new computer for your home or office?

October 31, 2017 / Mark Jansen / 0 Comments

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Call or email to order your new system today and have it professionally installed in your home or office.

Mark JANSEN

DIGITAL INSITE

Adelaide Onsite Computers + Support

Mobile : 0404 110 526

Office : (08) 8387 9023

www.digitalinsite.net

Christies Beach Computer repairs and support : SSD upgrade for a slow office computer

October 31, 2017 / Mark Jansen / 0 Comments

Today I’m helping out a crash repairer in Christies Beach with one of their office PC’s not booting up to Windows. The manager told me that if you wait long enough it sometimes loads the desktop in Windows 10 after about 10 minutes of loading. I told him that my immediate suspicious were of a slow, old mechanical hard disk dragging the whole system down and said that an SSD upgrade would go a long way to the computers performance (or huge lack thereof). He agreed to go ahead with the upgrade so I took the PC back to my workshop in Hallett Cove and began by installing the new SSD and getting Windows 10 setup on the new drive.

It was very easy to see the chasm of performance difference once the SSD went in – especially now that the system booted up to the Windows 10 desktop in around 10 seconds. That’s a fairly decent performance upgrade from 10 minutes! All up, the didn’t lose any data, they have a system that’s super quick to use and didn’t lose any data at all.

Mark JANSEN

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DIGITAL INSITE

Adelaide Onsite Computers + Support

Mobile : 0404 110 526

Office : (08) 8387 9023

www.digitalinsite.net

Brighton Computer Repairs and Support : SSD upgrade for a four year old laptop

October 29, 2017 / Mark Jansen / 0 Comments

A nice lady from Brighton called this week saying her laptop was running really slow and was becoming very frustrating to use. I asked her how old it was and she guessed about 4 years so I immediately suggested upgrading her slow old 5400rpm standard mechanical hard disk to a high speed SSD. I explained to her that it’s a very painless experience as I clone the data from the old hard disk to the new one so essentially the PC or laptop looks and operates exactly the same – just a whole lot faster.

She agreed to go ahead and within 24 hours she had her laptop back on her desk now running at least 5 times and in some cases even 10 times faster! She was especially happy with the speed the laptop now booted up, how fast it now ran her programs and the fact that all her personal files and work was untouched and exactly as it was before. On top of that she gave her 4 year old laptop a new lease of life and didn’t need to fork out over a thousand dollars on a new one.

Mark JANSEN

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DIGITAL INSITE

Adelaide Onsite Computers + Support

Mobile : 0404 110 526

Office : (08) 8387 9023

www.digitalinsite.net

Panorama Computer Support : Blue Screen of Death in Windows 10

October 13, 2017 / Mark Jansen / 0 Comments

I had the pleasure of helping a customer this week with his Windows 10 PC that was displaying the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) at random intervals while he was using it but most especially when trying to play videos from YouTube. The error messages didn’t really have any common theme to them but all seemed to point to some sort of hardware failure. I initially suspected his video card as it was a Nvidia Geforce 650ti froma few years back.

He had already had 3 technicians look at the PC and charge him quite a lot of money without actually fixing the problem. As you can imagine he was quite dissapointed and frustrated by the whole situation and desperately wanted it resolved.

I proceeded by assuring him that I will get to the bottom of the problem and began by removing any unneeded software and scanning for viruses. Even after removing all suspicious programs the computer was still crashing in under 5 minutes of playing YouTube. Time to dig deeper…

Next up was hardware testing. I started by removing his graphics card and replacing it with one in my workshop but unfortunately the PC was still crashing in the same way. Testing the RAM with memtest was next and while all tests passed for over an hour of solid testing the PC still crashed in Windows just the same. Next I tested all of his hard disks by simply removing all but his primary SSD… still crashing. Lastly I ran a linux based stress test program outside of Windows that tests for motherboard faults etc and it didn’t miss a beat. Strange…

So after all my testing I concluded that the hardware was fine and the problem must lie elsewhere. Reinstalling Windows 10 was the final option but before I went down that road I had another idea to make life a lot easier. I disconnected all of his hard disks and connected only an SSD from my workshop to his PC to eliminate all risk of data loss for my customer (data loss for my customers is NEVER an acceptable outcome in my books). Now I was able to safely reinstall a fresh version of Windows 10 as a test to see if something had corrupted his installation. Everything worked OK and was rock solid stable with the fresh install of Windows 10 with nothing but device drivers installed so this finally proved where the problem lay… Windows 10 and not his hardware. I was relieved for him that this was the case as his PC was quite a high spec model with a nice i7 4770 processor, 16GB of RAM and plenty of other high quality upgrades so it would have been a shame to say he needed to buy a whole new PC.

So the story ends by safely reinstalling Windows 10 on his primary SSD, installing his device drivers then moving and merging all of his personal data and profile back to their original locations. Just to be extra sure everything was fine I tested his PC by leaving YouTube running for over 8 hours playing 15 videos simultaneously and it never crashed once. As you can imagine he was quite happy with the end result and was finally able to use his PC again without it crashing every 5 minutes and didn’t have to buy a whole new system.

Mark JANSEN