Computer Repair Free Guide

Failed during Windows XP Installation on PC

2015-09-14T20:03:00.000-07:00

Windows XP is still popular for PC or printer technicians because some software support for this OS only include printer resetter. So here we want to share the way to fix the problem of installing Windows XP on the PC, this problem is failed during installation, dumping physical memory, or some files cannot readable.
This problem usually caused by broken RAM or memory, the steps below will help you to fix this.
1. Clean the RAM slot on the motherboard. The dirt on the RAM slot will make the RAM not working properly, By using the brush we can cleaning this carefully
2. Clean the RAM legs. To do this steps we can use the pencil or ballpoint eraser.

3. After all RAM legs has cleaned try to install Windows XP on the PC again.
4. But if still fails, you can use other normal RAM to ensure that the problems is RAM.

Usually, cleaning the RAM legs and slot will fix the problem, and we can install Windows XP on the PC without any problems.

How to Install Windows 8 on Macbook Air

2015-09-09T06:17:00.003-07:00

How to Install Windows 8 on Macbook Air is using Boot Camp Assistant application on Mac OS that is running on the Macbook Air you have. After installed this Windows you can access both Mac and Windows 8 on your Macbook. Press and hold the option key of keyboard just after turn ON the Macbook so both of the operating system will appear and you can choose what you want to access, Mac or Windows 8.
How to access Boot camp assistant ?
Move the cursor down on the mas desktop screen, and look for Launchpad, click and here you can find Utilities option, click this to find Boot Camp Assistant.
Create the bootable Windows 8 on the flash disk to install this OS on your Macbook Air more easy.

Dell Laptop Beep 8 Times, Fixed

2015-08-25T17:26:00.000-07:00

The following action will fix Dell laptop beep 8 times meaning display problems. This action apply to any type of Dell laptop but here is we have done for the Dell inspiron N4030.
1. Turn off the laptop. Press the power button to turn Off.
2. Unplug the charger and battery.
3. Without battery, press and hold the power button for along time, about 2 - 3 minutes.
4. Try to turn ON using charger only. If success until here, this is your lucky, but if doesn't fixed follow the next steps.
5. Open the laptop case.
6. Take out the motherboard. Ensure that the heat sink is clean, if not you should clean this.
7. Release the heat sink.
8. Re-flow the VGA chipset using the heater blower carefully. If you don't have, you can use the hair dryer.

9. Wait until the temperature back to normal and try to turn ON the laptop.
We have the real experience about the actions above and success to fix Dell laptop beep 8 times.

Sign of Hard Drive Failure

2015-08-25T07:23:00.002-07:00

How to know that the hard drive on the laptop have been failure or will failure soon. This is very important so that we preparing to recovery all files in the hard drive before real failure. Because, as we know that we very difficult to recovery the files in the hard drive failure.
What is the signs of hard drive failure :
1. Laptop running slow. If the laptop keyboard no problem, and no viruses or any other problems but the laptop running very slow, difficult to open one of the drive, this mean the hard drive get the problems.
2. If the laptop won't booting. Or need so many times to loading the boot file.
3. You can hear the half aloud from inside of the laptop a like " krekkk " during open the new application or when finished normally shut down the laptop.

If you meet the problems a like these you should take all files from the laptop to other portable hard drive or flask disk, and you can try to repair the hard drive or replace this.

Laptop Keyboard Repair, How to begin

2015-08-20T01:05:00.001-07:00

Laptop keyboard repair done to saving money. Here, replacement of the 14" laptop keyboard need about $23, but the cost of keyboard repair is about $5, We can save $18. Or if we want to do this action yourself, i think we just take a few minutes without having to spend money.
Why the laptop keyboard need to repair?
This can be repaired when : Some keys not function, there are a keys that always pressed without any touching, All keys not working, The laptop cannot get into windows without press any keys randomly, or the laptop won't boot and sounding beep continuously, and any other troubles.
How to begin this action, Follow the following steps.
If the all keyboard keys not working
1. Turn OFF the laptop.
2. Turn ON and try to get into BIOS setup screen by press F10 or Delete or F2 or F1 depending of the type of the laptop just after press the power button. If this action success, indicated you can access BIOS setup screen and there are the keyboard working well, this mean that you need to re-install the OS of the laptop.
3. But if BIOS cannot access or in the BIOS screen some keys not working this mean you need to di the step 4.
4. Release the laptop keyboard. Strike using your fingers to all keys carefully.

5. If still not working i think you need to dis-assemble all keyboard keys.
If a keys pressed continuously without touching
1. If the laptop cannot boot and sounding the beep just press randomly some keys until get into Windows.
2. Open Notepad application ( or other ) to know what key that pressed. Or you can use the keyboard software to find these key. After found, release the key, look at the image below.

Finally, clean inside of the key using small brush or cotton buds slowly.
If some keys not working
Some keys of the keyboard not working caused by many things, one of this is caused by a other key that always pressed, so you can try to do the action above.

Other problems of the laptop keyboard will fixed after disassembling all keys and separate the upper mica layer and the bottom. For get success during laptop keyboard repair we should carefully and slowly.

Laptop Won't Turn Off

2015-08-13T08:03:00.001-07:00

How to fix the laptop won't turn off is finding the causes of this problem for first. Many reason causing the laptop won't turn off including the corrupted operating system. If you use Windows XP for example, and the component of the system corrupted by viruses so the shutdown process will terminated before finish. If this happen please to follow the following steps :
1. When the shutdown jammed before finish, keyboard not responding and the laptop still ON, press and hold the power button until the laptop OFF.
2. Turn ON again and deep scan the driver where the OS installed using antivirus, usually is drive C
3. Try to turn off the laptop.
4. If the laptop still won't turn off, kill the laptop again and turn ON again. Copy all file from the C driver to other drive and re-install the operating system.
The steps above are one of the way to fix the laptop won't turn off caused by corrupted operating system.

How To Restart Laptop

2015-08-12T03:00:00.000-07:00

Here is the steps how to restart laptop when not responding or other problem. In normal condition, we can restart the laptop using the following steps :
1. Use the start menu. Click the Start menu ( left buttom of the desktop view ), so you will see the shut down option : Turn off Computer, click this and choose Restart so the laptop will restart automatically ( For Windows XP ).
And For Windows 7 after click Start menu you can see shut down option and right arrow. Click right arrow and choose Restart.
For Windows 8 Scroll the cursor to top right of the desktop and click general setting and choose Restart option there.
2. Use Ctrl Alt Delete keys of the keyboard. Press and hold Ctrl and Alt keys, and press once Delete key of the keyboard so you can log into Task Manager. At the layer of Task Manager Choose the Shut off option and click restart.

But how to restart laptop that is not responding? For Windows XP if your laptop not responding you can try to press once the power button will shut off the laptop. But if the laptop has hang, and keyboard not function, touchpad too we cannot shut of the laptop using Start menu, i think shut off the laptop is the better action. Just press and hold the power bottom until the laptop shut off and all indicator lamp off.
Or, for first action, we can try to restart the laptop using Task manager with combination keys Ctrl Alt and delete. I think this is some action that we can try to do about how to restart laptop in any condition.

How To Connect Laptop To Wifi

2015-08-10T08:39:00.000-07:00

This is something that some people say very easy about how to connect laptop to wifi, but some others will say difficult. So here is we want to discuss about this topic.
1. First step to connect laptop to wifi is knowing status of the laptop wifi. Before connect the wifi we must know what status of the wifi of the laptop, active or no active, enable or disable. And we must active the wifi or enable it. Sure, action to active the wifi device are different for certain laptops. For example HP Compaq laptop, to active the wifi is by press and hold the Fn button of the keyboard and followed by pressing F12 key once, and the Wifi indicator showed with the white lamp on the F12 key.

And if we press the F12 again ( Fn key has pressed and hold ) so the Wifi will no active and shown with the orange lamp.

For other type of the laptop will different, you just need to find the Wifi icon on the keyboard keys.
2. Connect to Wifi using the Wifi icon. After the Wifi active, you can see the Wifi Icon, right bottom of the desktop screen. Click these icon, if the any Wifi signal will appear there. For Windows XP if the Wifi signal not appear click View Wireless Networks.

Double clicks the Wifi signal that you want to connect, and if the Wifi protected by password just type and click Connect, so the laptop will connect to the Wifi and you can enjoy internet connection using the Wifi. For Windows 7 and 8 will more easy to connect laptop to Wifi signal.

How To Check Laptop Battery

2015-08-09T18:35:00.000-07:00

This is important to know how to check laptop battery so we will understand when we should replace the battery or we will know why the battery of our laptop began not long lasting.
As we know that the laptop battery equipped by the protector that working to countering the battery activity. This mean that every charger plugged to the laptop and the charging process have began so the protector of the battery will countering this activity as the first action, and then when we plug the charger next time will countered as the second action and so on. This counter will reduce the battery capacity and until the certain counter will make the battery not working again or working but not durable.
So, how to know the capacity of our laptop battery, follow the following instruction :
1. Open the Command prompt form your laptop. To do this step you must click the Start menu on the desktop, find Run and click this, and then type CMD and press Enter button of the keyboard. so you will see the layer below.

2. Type : powercfg energy

3. Press Enter button of the keyboard so you will see the process to check laptop battery of yours for about 60 seconds and the result report.

4. Look at the red under line of the image above. These is the file where the result report of this action saved, so you just check it out there.

Open the result report file with Notepad, so you will know the detail condition of the battery of your laptop. This is the steps how to check laptop battery using command prompt from the laptop and if the battery has decreased its capacity you just replace this with the new one

This Way Will Fix E16 of MP287 Printer

2015-08-09T16:08:00.000-07:00

Error E16 that show in the display panel of the MP287 printer appear after we have re-fill the ink of the cartridge usually. In normal condition you can see the number " 1 " in the display.

Error E16, that appear alternately : E - 1 - 6, this mean that the printer need to re-detect the cartridge and to make this fixed we need to press and hold the Stop/Reset button for about 5 - 10 seconds or until the disply show the loading proses and then the display show us the number " 1 ".

These action will fix the error E16 of the Canon MP287 printer, so the printer will working again and you can printing any text or photo using this.

Aspire 4736Z Black Screen Fixed

2015-08-09T03:11:00.001-07:00

This is the real experience when we have fixed the acer laptop Aspire 4736Z series that is black screen, still black screen using battery only or charger only and still black screen after clearing the CMOS battery. Before beginning my steps to fix this laptop please ensure some conditions below
1. Ensure that the DDR memory working well
2. Ensure that not component that looks like explode or there is former of explosion
3. No short circuit on any component, for example : Capacitors
4. Power button is function well
5. The charger unit working and no problems.
So, the steps to fix this laptop is below :
1. Open the case. Unplug the battery for first
2. Unplug the keyboard and followed by other casing
3. Unsolder or unplug the CMOS battery
4. Release the heat sink or processor cooler unit
5. Clean all dirt on the motherbaord using the brush
6. Heat the VGA chipset using heater blower or hair dryer. Repeat if necessary

The finally, wait until the VGA chipset almost cool and then try to turn ON the laptop. Base of my experience, this action will fix the Aspire 4736Z that is black screen, so the laptop will working again.

Aspire 4810T Power Button Not Working, Broken Chips

2015-08-09T01:59:00.001-07:00

One of the causes of the Acer Aspire 4810T laptop cannot turn ON or total dead is the broken of the chips, as we have experienced. All the lamp indicators is off and the power button not function. Steps to fix this problem are below.
1. Unplug the power charger and battery
2. Open the laptop case to access the motherboar
3. Look at the i/o chipset.

you can see the former of the small explosion on the chipset. This chipset have broken, so we need to replace this to make the laptop work again.
4. And the small transistor of near of these chipset have broken too.

5. Replace these broken component to fix the problem.

Follow all steps above to fix the Acer Aspire 4810T that cannot turn ON, dead and all indicators off, so the laptop will work again with the normal condition.