Seeing your computer screen go black and not be able to turn it back on can be a frightening experience. Although the expensive is always in the back of your mind of having to get your computer repaired or replaced, the biggest worry most people face is, are you able to recover your data; photos, music, documents, tax information etc?… Read more →
Category: Motherboard
Computer Not Starting After Update
Updates are suppose to make everything work better on your computer or laptop and most of the time they do. But sometimes it just doesn’t go all to plan. It can be be quite scary for a technological point of view when your computer asks to to an update or upgrade. There are so many programs on your computer. Do… Read more →
Why Does Your Hard Drive Fail?
Hard drives failing, including external and the type of hard drive inside your computer can be one of the worst things to happen to your computer or laptop. TOWNSVILLE NERDS WILL GIVE YOU A – SAME DAY – FREE – NO OBLIGATION QUOTE AND DIAGNOSIS Its one thing to have something go wrong with your computer and have to buy… Read more →
Shutting Down Computer When Frozen
There is a right and wrong way to shut your computer down or restart it. Most of the time this isn’t a problem and you know how to shutdown properly. But sometimes you just don’t have a choice, and need to hard shutdown your computer. The easiest way to do this is just hold down the power for 8 seconds,… Read more →
Laptop Water Damage
Water is probably one of the worst enemies of computers, right up there with heat and electricity. The biggest problem with water damage to your computer is its ability to affect multiple components in your computer, specially in laptops and notebooks where they are all crammed into close together. Some components are replaceable, like in desktop where its feasible to… Read more →
What Do You Need For a Gaming Computer
Townsville Nerds does not build computers. We use to, but due to market share and prices of computers built already made, it’s just something right now we want to do in our business. Saying that people ask us all the time to help[ them with components they have already bought and advice on what they need for a great gaming… Read more →
Dell Bios Updates – May 2017
There has recently been a flood of reports on all the forums and many news websites regarding Dell Bios Updates which a stopping a lot of computers booting up properly. Townsville Nerds recommend any of our customers who currently have a Dell laptop of desktop computer, wait a few weeks before updating your BIOS (Basic Input Output System) until Dell… Read more →
Computer Wont Start Up
There can be many reasons your computer wont start up. A lot of computer companies will want to just replace your hard drive as a quick fix without really spending the time working out what is exactly wrong. The problem with this is you will usually loose all your data and it is really only treating the symptom rather the real underlying problem,… Read more →
Computer overheating
Living in the north presents a whole new range of problems that people living down south. I have done computer work all over the world and the problems users in Townsville have compared to most places are significantly different and ones computer manufactures ignore because most of the word lives in the cool. When it comes to desktop computers there… Read more →