whats the best way to learn computer repair?
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research it, read the books, internet and then go find an old computer and open her up. You learn best by experience
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If the machine is open use the following standard:  \n\n1). Always check connections first (remove and reinsert) - keyb, mouse, usb, video cable (all outside).  CPU chip, memory chip, video card (and others if present), power to motherboard, fans, reset or power button stuck, data and power cables to devices.  \n\n2).Follow (within limits) process of elimination:  If success add next most basic thing and continue until failure.  Move cards and memory to different slots as a quick test.  Remove everything but CPU chip and power to M/B.  Beep test - power up and listen for series of beeps;  no beep=check CPU, M/B or existence of  beeper/speaker.   Add memory, beep test.  Add video, look for output.  \n\nAt this point, test the hard disk LAST so it wont boot windows or be hammered for every test.\n\nAdd a power cable to floppy and test.  Add a data cable to same device and test, then try to boot a floppy.  Add power to next device, test, then add data to the device and test - etc.  Then add each card until failure.  Any failed item should be thoroughly checked out unless you're rich and will replace it then and there.  Sometimes certain M/B will not power up or boot without CPU and memory chip combo.  Some are intelligent enough to allow only CPU.  \n\nIf you are uncomfortable with any of this, take your box to a PC guru friend or a service and have them do a flavor of the above.  Don't let them tell you the thing is hosed - make 'em show you something from the above or similar tests.
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http://computer.howstuffworks.com/\nmaybe here
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Learning how to use a computer buy learning how to write programs that tell the computer how to work, how to gather information, creating a system from scratch.  Very important.
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Windows XP Repair Installation\n\nAt some point you may need to repair the installation of Windows\nXP. This is preferable to a clean install in many cases since it\nattempts to only repair your copy of windows without having to \ndelete all the files on your computer first. In many cases a \nrepair installation is enough to fix the problem. A repair install\ndeletes the files normally installed by windows XP and then \nreinstalls them off the disc. A repair install will not rebuild \nyour computer's registry, delete applications and user settings, \nor fix problems caused being caused by a program.\n\n1. First you have to boot the computer with the Windows XP cd in\n   the cd tray. You will see a black screen and it will ask you \n   to press any key to boot from the cd so press the spacebar \n   and your computer will boot from the CD.\n\n2. After a moment you will be taken to the Windows XP Setup \n   screen. Though the second option says to repair do not press \n   R. Instead press enter to select the setup for Windows XP.\n\n3. Next, you have to accept the license agreement from windows. \n   Once you've done that it will search for your existing \n   installation of windows.\n\n4. Once it has finished detecting the installation you need to \n   select the XP installation you want to repair. You can repair \n   the installation by pressing R. If you don't see the repair \n   option you will need to do a clean installation. Your version \n   of windows may have been damaged in a way that it cannot carry \n   out a repair. \n\n5. Setup will then copy the files it needs to the hard drive and \n   reboot the computer. A message will come up asking you if you \n   want to boot from the cd, don't press any keys and just let \n   the timer run out. The set up will continue and look like is \n   doing a clean install but all of your applications and \n   settings will be intact when it finished.\n\nAn important note is to not activate your windows over the \ninternet right away. Always enable the XP firewall to protect \nyourself.
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There are several books you can find at your local library or bookstore.  The 'for dummies' series is very helpful.  They have everything from learning Microsoft Word, Excel and other computer programs as well as learning the basics of computer operation.  You can type in: just for dummies book list on the www.google.com search engine, select the first result and it shows you a list of all the books available.  KISS (Keep It Short & Simple) books might also be of some help.
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"Lowcost Computer Repair"\nlow cost computer repair\n\n"We repair computers for less then major companies"\n"We also upgrade computers for a fraction of the cost of big computer companies"\nwe upgrade and repair computers for less\n\n"If you purchased a used computer that is missing parts we will put in parts for a great price"\nBring your computer up to date\n\n"We charge by the job instead of the hour"\n"No job is to big or to small"\nWe charge by the job or by the hour, as you prefer\n\n"Call for a free price quote today."\nexcellent, people love free, can I borrow this?\n\njust my humble suggestions
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You just open help file in windows 2003 server and can learn all windows 2003 server without any money, you also could get detailed terms in glossary of windows 2003 help. I have learned all from help files and operating a wide area network on this.
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Bring your computer to technician. For now, you can right click your "Programs" on your start menu and click explore / open to open your programs. \n\nHope it can help.
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The best way to learn is experience. Download a few programs, try using them, mess around with the options, etc. That's how I learned 95% of the stuff I know - trial and error ;).\nHere are some programs you can use freely.\nhttp://filehippo.com/
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doing. my knowledge and skill really shot through the roof when my friends started asking me to help them with computer issues. i saw things that i never would have seen before that helped me, for example, i installed my first cd drive on my friend's computer, and what I learned then is still with me.\n\nif you don't have any friends, or your friends are better than you, the next best thing is to build your own computer from scratch. you are going to make mistakes, and you'll fry some parts, but you'll learn a lot. you probably won't be happy with the final product until the third time you've done it.
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I googled this > free online computer education websites< and came up with a list of computer educational websites.  If you don't have google on your taskbar just go to www.google.com and type in the box what I have above.  Good luck to ya!\nTam
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hey depends of the topic that ur looking for, (hack, repair, office, microsft, programing etc,) be more specific ok...
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By attending a college or night course in couputing or ict. Buy an old computer for not much money and take a look inside yourself, have a play with it, find out what does what. Read internet sites. Build your own :)
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1. Well, what you wanna do is save all the time. If you're working in a document, save every so often.\n\n2. Not ALL data, but most. Some computers (with Windows XP) have ways to recover data from the RAM. Any data on the harddrive will be recoverable though.\n\n3. A date recovery attempt will occur when data is lost.\n\n4. Couldn't tell you how much it would cost to recover data, but anywhere from $50 - $100 maybe.\n\n5. Try to repair the hardware, so it becomes functioning again.\n\n6. Not usually.\n\n7. Usually the best option is to recover from a CD, not the internet, but internet MAY work.
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try HP's website, they usually have complete instructions you can download.
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Your question is not very clear, are you rebuilding it by adding and removing hardware or rebuilding from (almost or completely) zero or just want to rebuild the current system without adding or reducing anything. Please modify the instruction as suitable.\n\nREAD THE INSTRUCTION UNTIL THE END FIRST, BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO DO THE ANYTHING.\n\n1. Backup data from old Computer.\n2. Burn CD or Floppy with installer of firewall, make sure it's the most recent version.\n2. Scrap the old Computer for hardware that is not so old and is still good to use\n3. Choose the motherboard first, this is the most crucial part of a computer.\n4. Choose a suitable processors for the motherboard,\n5. Choose other parts, such as: \n- internal storage (harddisk)\n- Power Supply (PSU)*3,\n- basic input device (keyboard and mouse)\n- basic output device (speaker and monitor)\n- video card*1 (VGA)\n- sound card*2\n- network card and/or modem card\n- casings\n- peripherals (like printer, scanner, etc) \n- external storage (like CD Driver, DVD Driver, Floppy, etc)\n6.  Make sure the parts are not incompatible with each other esp. with proccessors and motherboard before paying for them\n7. Build them together, sometimes you can ask the vendor to assemble them for you\n8. Bring the computer home\n9. Plug all the devices to power as needed, plug monitors, keyboard, mouse, peripherals, etc to the computer. DO NOT plug modem cable or network cable yet.\n10. Turn on the computer. Go to BIOS Setting*4 and change the boot order to CD first. Restart computer.\n11. Boot from CD. Format the harddisk first, then install Windows.\n12. After installing Windows, install hardware drivers as needed, look at the device manager on what should be installed. If you don't have the driver CD for some reason, don't download it yet.\n13. Install the firewall from the CD you make earlier. This is the most basic requirement before connecting to internet\n14. Plug network cable or modem cable, setup modem and network as neccessary.\n15. Connect to the internet.\n16. Download and install Windows Update at Microsoft.com, you should ONLY install the HIGH PRIORITY updates. Repeat this step as necessary since sometimes Windows Update need the computer to be restarted before able to continue updating.\n17. Download and install basic security software like antivirus, antispyware, etc. Update them just after you install them, sometimes the latest antivirus/antispyware installer don't come with the latest signature database.\n18. Download and install the remaining of the drivers that you don't have at earlier time. Restart as needed.\n19. Optional: Use alternative browser like Firefox, Opera, etc early, download and install them at this step. Only use IE for updating windows and downloading the alternative browser.\n20. You can start using the computer now.\n\n*1. most motherboards provide standard video card, if you're not planning to use the computer for graphic intensive applications like games, photo-editing, image creating, or CAD, you may save some money on these parts. Remember that you can always add this part at later time.\n*2. If you're not an working a lot with sounds or not an audiophile, this part may be skipped since most motherboard provide a good quality sound card functionality.\n*3. Most casings are sold with an average quality power supply, this power supply often has voltage leakages, which might shorten the life span of other hardware, so most of the time it is needed to buy a power supply. Note though, some casing's power supply are not that bad either.\n*4. Repeatedly press delete after pressing the on button. Note: sometimes it is not possible to do this on USB keyboard, since the driver needed for USB is not yet loaded, use a normal keyboard instead.\n\nNOTE:\nSome of these instruction may be leaved out if you take some of the old computer's part or not going to use some functionality like modem if you're not an internet surfe