Going to cousin's house to fix computers

[Philippine Mango]

I'm going to my cousin's house this weekend and was wondering what I should bring as in "tools" to thier house. I've got, NSW 2003, Windows XP, Office XP, partitiion magic and I can't think of anything else I should bring. Any ideas?

 

[newParadigm]

a magnetic screw driver (dont put it in your carry n bag!!!)


~new

 

[BlueWeasel]

Ad Aware
Spyware S&D
SpywareBlaster

...cuz his 'puter's probably covered with spyware.

 

[nsafreak]

Can of compressed air. I'm willing to bet his PC is full of dust.

 

[jlee]

A few extra screws..screwdriver..

WinRAR too.

 

[deftron]

Sledgehammer and a blowtorch


The two have never failed me

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Can of compressed air. I'm willing to bet his PC is full of dust.

:thumbsup:

Speaking of which..I opened up my old Celly 500 machine the other day...oh..my...God..more dust than you could shake a stick at. The modem card was covered in about a 1/4" thick layer of dust. The CPU heatsink was almost completely clogged with dust. Looked like a dust storm when I blew the thing out with compressed air on my back porch..

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Ad Aware
Spyware S&D
SpywareBlaster

...cuz his 'puter's probably covered with spyware.

I'd add a firewall like Zonealarm to keep it clean afterward also.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Can of compressed air. I'm willing to bet his PC is full of dust.

:thumbsup:

Speaking of which..I opened up my old Celly 500 machine the other day...oh..my...God..more dust than you could shake a stick at. The modem card was covered in about a 1/4" thick layer of dust. The CPU heatsink was almost completely clogged with dust. Looked like a dust storm when I blew the thing out with compressed air on my back porch..

At work we replaced a bunch of P2s (250-400mhz) with P4s and the HDs had to be wiped or removed. So we had about 100 machines to go through, nasty stuff. pic1 pic2.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Can of compressed air. I'm willing to bet his PC is full of dust.

:thumbsup:

Speaking of which..I opened up my old Celly 500 machine the other day...oh..my...God..more dust than you could shake a stick at. The modem card was covered in about a 1/4" thick layer of dust. The CPU heatsink was almost completely clogged with dust. Looked like a dust storm when I blew the thing out with compressed air on my back porch..

At work we replaced a bunch of P2s (250-400mhz) with P4s and the HDs had to be wiped or removed. So we had about 100 machines to go through, nasty stuff. pic1 pic2.

Ahhh the good old Optiplex GX1's. I've got about 70 of them that I support.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

bring a gun so you get arrested and thus prohibited from posting anymore

 

[t3hmuffinman]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Can of compressed air. I'm willing to bet his PC is full of dust.

:thumbsup:

Speaking of which..I opened up my old Celly 500 machine the other day...oh..my...God..more dust than you could shake a stick at. The modem card was covered in about a 1/4" thick layer of dust. The CPU heatsink was almost completely clogged with dust. Looked like a dust storm when I blew the thing out with compressed air on my back porch..

At work we replaced a bunch of P2s (250-400mhz) with P4s and the HDs had to be wiped or removed. So we had about 100 machines to go through, nasty stuff. pic1 pic2.

LOL @ dustbunnies as the name of the pics

 

[isekii]

from your op it looks like you're doing more illegal distributing than fixing.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Can of compressed air. I'm willing to bet his PC is full of dust.

:thumbsup:

Speaking of which..I opened up my old Celly 500 machine the other day...oh..my...God..more dust than you could shake a stick at. The modem card was covered in about a 1/4" thick layer of dust. The CPU heatsink was almost completely clogged with dust. Looked like a dust storm when I blew the thing out with compressed air on my back porch..

At work we replaced a bunch of P2s (250-400mhz) with P4s and the HDs had to be wiped or removed. So we had about 100 machines to go through, nasty stuff. pic1 pic2.

Think thats bad! Check this out, it's my mom's computer:
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[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: isekii
from your op it looks like you're doing more illegal distributing than fixing.

They have Winxp on all the machines, thing is they're too dumb to keep the CD's in a safe spot so I'm just bringing the CD and will extract the CDkey from the computer if I DO format. They also happen to have norton but agian, because they're dumb, they keep loosing the stuff.

 

[olds]

Visa

 

[Kishan]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Can of compressed air. I'm willing to bet his PC is full of dust.

:thumbsup:

Speaking of which..I opened up my old Celly 500 machine the other day...oh..my...God..more dust than you could shake a stick at. The modem card was covered in about a 1/4" thick layer of dust. The CPU heatsink was almost completely clogged with dust. Looked like a dust storm when I blew the thing out with compressed air on my back porch..

At work we replaced a bunch of P2s (250-400mhz) with P4s and the HDs had to be wiped or removed. So we had about 100 machines to go through, nasty stuff. pic1 pic2.

Think thats bad! Check this out, it's my mom's computer:
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that looks reasonable as that computer must be around 4-5 years old.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
I'm going to my cousin's house this weekend and was wondering what I should bring as in "tools" to thier house. I've got, NSW 2003, Windows XP, Office XP, partitiion magic and I can't think of anything else I should bring. Any ideas?

HA HA. And you are going to work on a computer? :Q

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
I'm going to my cousin's house this weekend and was wondering what I should bring as in "tools" to thier house. I've got, NSW 2003, Windows XP, Office XP, partitiion magic and I can't think of anything else I should bring. Any ideas?

HA HA. And you are going to work on a computer? :Q

?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: Kalvin00

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Can of compressed air. I'm willing to bet his PC is full of dust.

:thumbsup:

Speaking of which..I opened up my old Celly 500 machine the other day...oh..my...God..more dust than you could shake a stick at. The modem card was covered in about a 1/4" thick layer of dust. The CPU heatsink was almost completely clogged with dust. Looked like a dust storm when I blew the thing out with compressed air on my back porch..

At work we replaced a bunch of P2s (250-400mhz) with P4s and the HDs had to be wiped or removed. So we had about 100 machines to go through, nasty stuff. pic1 pic2.

Think thats bad! Check this out, it's my mom's computer:
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Those Dell front panels are designed to catch dust like that, believe it or not. The idea was to create more service when the things clogged up and overheated, but there was enough airflow in from the back (which DOESN'T catch dust) to keep the interior cool and fairly clean. (and yes, that is fairly clean)

 

[BudAshes]

Wow my mom has that exact same dell case and it was almost as dusty when i looked inside.

 

[skyking]

Ultimate boot CD
Seriously, don't leave home without that.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: skyking
Ultimate boot CD
Seriously, don't leave home without that.

And don't forget UBCD4Win

 

[Red Dawn]

A legal written disclaimer and a Notary Public

 

[TitanDiddly]

Hammer.