Geek Blog - computer help

Broken Hinges- Imagine that - a beautiful day, you are sitting comfortably on the couch, you are opening the laptop lid and one of the hinges cracks... What a disaster you think, you have to pay the outrageous cost for repair in the laptop service shop... Buuut there is a quick fix for the problem, all you need is a screwdriver and 1 hour of your time. :) Dissasemble the laptop. Locate the broken insert for the metal bushing which holds the hinge ... Read more

In this guide I explain how to recover files from a laptop (or desktop PC) with crashed, failed, damaged operating system. WHEN CAN YOU USE THIS RECOVERY GUIDE? 1. The guide will work if the OS is damaged but the computer hardware still works fine. 2. The guide might work if the hard drive has some minor damage, like a few bad sectors. PREPARING FOR RECOVERY For this recovery I’ll be using a Ubuntu CD (Linux OS). Also, you can create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash ... Read more

Any laptop has a cooling module which includes two parts: the heat sink and cooling fan. When it works, the processor (CPU) heats up and the heat sing heats up too. At some temperature level, the fan kicks in and cools down the heatsink. The problem starts when the cooling module collects too much dust inside. The dust kills normal airflow inside the cooling module. Eventually, the processor overheats and the laptop turns off unexpectedly or freezes. This problem can be fixed by ... Read more

OS - WARNING! Running system restore utility will erase all personal data on the hard drive and re-image it back to factory defaults. Make sure all personal data is backed up before reinstalling the OS. Also, make sure the laptop is running on AC power during the process. These days most computers are sold without recovery discs. Instead they have a hidden (or visible) recovery partition with the factory image. In order to re-image the hard drive back to defaults it’s necessary to ... Read more

Keyboard. Fixing the problem. Keyboard - One or more keys fell off the laptop keyboard and you are not sure how to put them back? Don’t worry, most likely you can fix the keyboard and it’s not necessary to buy a new one. There is no universal repair guide because all keyboards are different. Here’s what I usually do in this case. Situation 1. The key cap and key retainer fell off the keyboard and you cannot figure out how to assemble them back. Carefully ... Read more