KpaBtn I.T.

KpaBtn I.T. With over 24 years exp in Building Upgrading & Fixing PC’s, you can be sure of a professional service I now specialize in Home Computers.
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With over 24 years experience in Building, Upgrading & Fixing PC’s, you can be sure of a professional service.

Happy Easter everybody 🐰
29/03/2024

Happy Easter everybody 🐰

Merry Christmas all, and a Happy New Year 🎄🎅
14/12/2023

Merry Christmas all, and a Happy New Year 🎄🎅

Thankyou to all my customers that have supported me this year especially through these difficult times ❤
25/12/2021

Thankyou to all my customers that have supported me this year especially through these difficult times ❤

So, customer messages me to say he's been having problems with his computer crashing, or at least the graphic card drive...
08/07/2021

So, customer messages me to say he's been having problems with his computer crashing, or at least the graphic card drivers crashing and reseting etc. After speaking to an "IT" guy, and I can only presume he wasn't, the guy told him it needs the latest drivers and charged him for this privilege (way to much aswell!). It didn't work. So customer took it to a Computer Shop. The result - "We've stress tested your graphic card and it gets way too hot, so you need a new one - that'll be hundreds of £ as they're difficult to get currently", indeed they are difficult to get, but that was the only part that was true.
So, after chatting to a few more people, he heard of me. And these photos are the graphic card I speak of. Firstly, there is no way in its current state would I stress test it as its highly unlikely to be able to keep cool.

So I told the customer the first thing I'd do is remove it, take it apart, clean it all up, repaste it and then lets see what happens. So, (annoyingly I didn't take any after pics 🤦) now all clean, it happily sat in the stress test for many hours, without reaching any silly temps, and nor does it crash/reset. A very simple fix and very low cost to the customer. This seems to be becoming more and more common and worryingly gives all us IT guys a bad name for the few that do this kind of thing.

Maybe its the result of Covid? pepole struggling to earn a living so obtaining money any way they can? I've seen more and more scams on the Facebook marketplace with people paying money and not getting anything, or stuff not working etc etc.

Conning people out of money is wrong! always! I am always honest to my customers, if I cannot do a job, I will say so, if possible I will attempt to recommend someone who I know can. If I visit a house and its a 5 min simple job then I'm happy for a couple of quid for fuel and maybe recommend me to friends/family/Facebook groups.

Rant over, sorry 🤣

So, this week I'll be mostly working on these (with hopefully sometime to fit on some photography Tiktok Laine :) )Most ...
08/07/2021

So, this week I'll be mostly working on these (with hopefully sometime to fit on some photography Tiktok Laine :) )

Most of these are customers pc's to fix, one (the large one on the right) is for a customer's build, to be a mid range gaming pc (just waiting on parts)

:)

Customer brought me this pc, 1 lovely but old Alienware 1st gen i7. He wanted it to play Fortnite and Minecraft for his ...
11/06/2021

Customer brought me this pc, 1 lovely but old Alienware 1st gen i7. He wanted it to play Fortnite and Minecraft for his Son, which it currently just can't lol, but customer has a very limited budget for this, so I said I'd see what I can do.

Replaced the old stuff with a 4th gen motherboard & i7 4770k cpu, 16gb ddr3 ram, 1tb HDD for games, and a not yet installed small SSD purely for a very quick Windows boot time and anything O/S related.

Customer already has a Ultra Wide fast hz gaming monitor, so he was after the quickest Frame Rate possible to beat his Xbox One on the TV which hits 60fps, and looking as nice as possible.

So, now after changing a few settings to make Fortnite look nice at the 2550x1080p resolution his screen runs (which is higher than the standard 1080p), it now runs at an average of 120fps. It will run 150fps but doesn't look as nice to the eye, so 120fps it is, lol. Customer extremely happy which makes me happy, and all on a very limited budget 😍 (it happily runs Minecreft too but I didn't make a note of the FPS)

:)

So, customer brings me his pc. Its been getting a bit hot, crashing, generally misbehaving. He'd taken it to another loc...
01/06/2021

So, customer brings me his pc. Its been getting a bit hot, crashing, generally misbehaving. He'd taken it to another local I.T. place and was told he needed a new motherboard, followee by a silly price for said motherboard plus labour. What it actually needed was a good clean. He's had it back few days ago and reported to me, no misbehaving whatsoever and its running lovely. I cannot decide if its lack of knowledge on the other I.T. places part, or are they purposely conning people? Either way, its not on!

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