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Try this first if your laptop won’t turn on

Posted on March 30, 2023

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If you ever press the power button on your laptop and it fails to power up, there’s a good chance that you won’t need to replace it or pay for an expensive repair.

A “dead” laptop can be caused by several different issues, but one common cause is a simple transient power issue or some other transient glitch.

If you ever find yourself facing a laptop that won’t turn on when you press the power button, try this before trying anything else:  [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I transfer photos from a dead PC to a new one?

Posted on March 20, 2023

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Question from Barbara:  Rick, my two year old laptop wouldn’t come on the other day so I took it to the Geek Squad to have it checked out.

Long story short, they said the motherboard was bad and that it wasn’t worth fixing, so I bought a new laptop.

The problem is I have literally thousands of photos on the dead laptop’s hard drive that I desperately need to get off of it and onto my new Laptop.  [Read more…]




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