Page 4 - Starting a home computer repair business.

My friends dad has a similar job. He's around 50 years of age, and he works at home for some kinda company. He has his office in his own house. Me and another guy always asked his dad for help fixing our computers, which gave him the idea of starting an extra sidejob fixing other peoples computers. He put up these papers in supermarkets, stores etc. and put his phone number on it. People obviously called. So he drove to them, picked up their computer, fixed them at his house, and brought it back to them again when it aws fixed. I know you would never give a computer to a total stranger in the usa, but here in sweden it's alright. Besides, no one would actually look at his dad and think that he would steal the computer.

oh yes, grand theft computer is very common in small town alaska.

LOL

but im not looking for the fastest computer in the world, just somthing that runs xp. the cheapest possible thing would be perfect

dude I've run XP on these machines, no lie:

500 Mhz P3 128 MB RAM
400 Mhz P2 96 MB RAM
300 MHZ P2 64 MB RAM

It'll run, trust me. But I'm not sure about the last one, I never remembered the settings in the BIOS when I looked at it a year ago. I've also run windows 98 on a 100 Mhz 24 MB RAM machine (was my backup machine)

soling as you kick out all the fancy eye-candy it does fine. ideally he'd want to run something like DSL or some other light Linux version, but then he wouldn't be able to use it to fix/assess peoples computers . pity really.

When it comes to Xp and Sdram you ideally need 256mb. Yep it will run with 128, 64 and even 32, but to have a stress less time on the thing 256 is your best bet as Xp generally takes 128 to run.

Like Anubis said, rid it of all the nice features, down to the bear graphix and keep up with the general maintenance of it and it will serv you well.

i ran those copies of XP with stock settings, eye candy and all. I also ran DSL on that win 98 box, 100 mhz 24 RAM for a bit before switching to 98 and leaving the comp to decompose slowly cause I don't use it anymore.

awsome thanks ill look into it

just don't expect it to do much, or be blazing like any new system. It'll run, but it's not 3dmark or gaming worthy.

but who in their right mind games seriously on a laptop compared to a desktop?!

my friend kevin. Who, incidentially, is buying an FX-53. Which my sempy wil pwnz0r with my OCZ RAM and watercooled bliss (next year...)

hey, is there a way to like download all the nessacary updates to a cd/dvd and keep it with me when i go to bitches houses and be like, here lets install some updates, i know sp 2 will be 1 of them. any other file besides spybot and adaware and avast.

that's quite a good idea. you can get lal the avalable updates off M$'s site. you could make a disk for each OS too so you can help people with 98 and ME too.

a few other useful things are:
http://www.download.de/downloads/d_...5359&tid2=17063. this is an XP style task manager for 9.x and it'll allow you to check systems to see if there's any unusual tasks running.
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm. this is a really good file recovery program (free too ).

i haven't got time to post every tool i know now but il do a few more in a bit .

ok guys, my golf course job is over, they shut down for winter, we get snow in alaska.

i have all my advertisement and business cards comming in the mail. ill scan them when i get them and show yall. im gonna basically just start doing what ever shows up and when a problem occures or i need a new tool ima just gonna buy it, i have about 4 harddrives over 100gigs but i also bought a 500gig usb drive just in case. ill tell you all how it is when i get my first customer.

PS anyone wanna build me a site in frontpage and then ill host it?