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Back in Nov2011, there was an FBI Sting called “Operation Ghost Click” that resulted in the arrest of six Estonian cyber-criminals that used malware known as DNSChanger that infected over 4.2 million computers. Despite their arrest several months ago, there are many computers that could still be infected. So in an effort to clean up the mess left behind by their internet fraud ring, the FBI is urging internet users to check their computers for any DNS Changer malware.

“My Computer Will Not Turn On” is a very common complaint with computers. Sometimes your computer may have been acting up intermittently before it finally failed completely or it may have just happened out of the blue. Whatever the situation was, there are things you can do help prevent this from happening.

It doesn’t get any easier than this: Just Like Us on Facebook and be the first one to show up with your computer in hand. It is that easy!

Just a few details:

The next person who walks in to our shop in Waipahu “with their computer in hand” who has “Liked” our Facebook page already, will get a FREE Computer Repair (labor only). I will post when this happens, so please don’t call about this, just Like us on Facebook and show up. For those not needing a repair, PLEASE share this Post with all your Facebook friends on Oahu. If you help me spread the word, I will do this more often

I’m not sure if this post is going to turn into one of my rants yet because I talk about this problem with customers on a daily basis, and nobody gets it. Anyway, a bad shutdown is when your computer is powered-off without properly shutting it down in Windows. Whether, you pull the plug, pull the battery, hold in the power button, or even have a power outage, it is a bad shutdown! It doesn’t matter if it was intentional, by accident, by confusion, or whatever, … a bad shutdown is a bad shutdown. It is an all too common Computer Repair Hawaii problem many of our customer’s experience.

Here at Gakidoo’s Computer Repair Hawaii, we get emails, contact form submissions, phone calls, and walk-ins on a daily basis. I can also tell you that we encounter customers with as many different ideas of what to expect during the repair process as there are people needing a repair.

Some people expect the repair to only take a few minutes so they want to wait
Many assume their computer may not be repairable
Others assume that we are going to wipe out their data during the repair
The list goes on …

A Computer Virus is a communicable program, script or code that automatically replicates itself and then either attaches itself to an existing file on your computer system, and/or makes copies of itself with legitimate sounding names in various folders on your computer. Sometimes they give themselves away by using misspelled versions of legitimate file names, [...]

We just announced our Free Computer Repair Promotion last week and we were going to announce the first winner this morning, but I guess the word didn’t get out early enough. I hate to say it, but whoever didn’t enter thinking they wouldn’t have much of a chance to win, lost out this week because [...]

Now that the parts identification lesson was over, I just said to bring the entire laptop in and I will take care of it. I asked again what was wrong with the laptop and then he said it fell off the counter while it was turned on. I explained how that would most likely damage his hard drive. He went on to say that the computer turned-on still but would not boot to Windows, which I explained was probably due to errors on the hard drive from when it fell. So now, I explained that the hard drive may be bad, that your data might be at risk and this job might not be a data backup job after all.