aiBuilt Computer & Laptop Repair

SCAM ALERT: Windows/Microsoft Help Center Calls Microsoft will NOT call you about issues with your computer or Windows... (click link to read more) https://plus.google.com//114090051320205/posts/8hgh7BaTMbZ

Best Buy/Geek Squad appreciation month! For the next 30 days, anyone bringing a desktop computer or laptop to us for repair, and mentions that you chose us over the "Geeks" (or chose us after making the mistake of going there) will receive 20% off on labor!!! Our normal $99.99 flat rate labor price ALREADY beats their labor price by a LOT - bring in your machines now and get $20 off that labor price!!! THREE Best Buy Geek Squad failed, unfinished or overpriced repairs have ju...st come in to our shop in TWO days. Thank you Geek Squad for not knowing what you are doing, or for over-charging. And that's why we appreciate them! They've been providing us with a lot of work lately. ;-) I do have a question for The Geek Squad though - why is it every time you work on a laptop, you can't seem to manage to put all the screws back in?!?! Did you know I keep containers full of spare laptop screws for just such eventualities that your team seems guaranteed to cause?!?! Really, if you don't know what you are doing when working on a laptop, you shouldn't be - and if you *STILL* insist on (or are forced to) work on a laptop, at least download the service manual so you put these things back together properly.

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Help an all volunteer Star Trek fan project that aiBuilt Computer & Laptop Repair is involved in! And don't forget to go to the website to see new adventures of Captain Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov and the rest of the gang from the Starship Enterprise! Star Trek lives on!!!

One more laptop jack repair completed... including going the extra mile to put a few grommets back in, and of course (as we always do) cleaning the cooling assembly and applying new thermal paste. It's amazing how many pieces some of these smaller jacks can break apart into when a laptop gets dropped or banged on the plug.

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FLASH VULNERABILITY! Update Flash now, on all your Windows systems - oh, and (once again, no big surprise) don't run Internet Explorer! It is the exploit vector for this attack. Try Google Chrome instead. Or Mozilla Firefox, or Opera, or Safari. http://www.adobe.com/supp/security/bulletins/apsb12-09.html

A busy week ahead: three laptop jack repairs, one CMOS battery socket replacement (for a laptop), one virus removal, one failing internal desktop hard drive to recover (followed by HDD replacement, Windows reinstall and data restoration), one external hard drive to recover, two LCD screen replacements (one of which goes behind a pen digitizer), (and finally) one laptop motherboard replacement.

AntiVirus/AntiSpyware/AntiMalware Software Specials: ----- We are an Authorized AVG & Vipre Reseller ----- Vipre Antivirus & AntiSpyware Premium: $29.99 - via aiBuilt Computer & Laptop Repair... Vipre Antivirus & AntiSpyware Regular: $19.99 - via aiBuilt Computer & Laptop Repair AVG Full Internet Security Suite TWO Year: $52.99 - via aiBuilt Computer & Laptop Repair (all are digital downloads - contact us to order)

FOR QUALIFIED LAPTOP TECHNICIANS ONLY: Here's a simple method you can use to build a tester to test a laptop's CCFL backlight tube or inverter board. It's very cheap and easy to make this tester, and easy to use. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhEGW46uCVc