This is a very difficult question because it could related and be answered very differently depending on the situation. Such as are we referring to a Apple Mac hard drive working in a computer as the primary drive, or as an external with files on it. Or can we use a hard drive from a Mac computer and change it… Read more →
Category: Old Computer
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 →
Conflicting Software Issues
Although there are many parts and different types of software and hardware on your computer, the two main parts people mostly refer to are hardware and software. Hardware the physical components you can touch like your motherboard, hard drive, mouse, monitor, keyboard, memory and so on. What is Software Software can be anything from the operating system you are using such… Read more →
New Computer Running Slow
You’ve just bought a new computer, with the latest processor, heaps of memory and a fast hard drive. It should be running super fast, but it still takes a while to start up, login and get to what your doing. Your left wondering why. Well the chances are you didn’t buy a dud. In fact, even a 3 years old… Read more →
What is hiberfil.sys
There is a very good chance that if you are reading this post on Townsville Nerds, you computer is starting to run slow and you have been checking your recourse and found a file called hiberfil.sys is using a lot of your precious memory or hard drive space. Im sure there is nothing you would like to do more than… Read more →
Computer is Running Check Disk
Turning your computer on to see it not starting up properly or running a check disk straight away can be a very scary things, specially if you have not backed up your data. Check Disk is a program on the Windows operating system which checks system files and integrity as well as the integrity of the disks surface. If you are getting… Read more →
Things to do with an Old Computer – Part 1
It feels like only yesterday when no one had a computer. Yep I sound old but I am still in my 30’s and it really wasn’t that long ago there was no internet, people didn’t have mobile phones which surfed the web and have internet and people only had one computer in their house. As the technology has developed and… Read more →