Its time for us to dig into our archives for a second time (here is the first one if you missed it) and find our most popular posts in case you may have missed them or weren’t a Technibble reader back then.

The Techie Biz:

• Sexual Favors on the Job - Ok, now I have your attention. Recently on Craigslist someone posted an ad advertising that they will fix computers in exchange for sexual favors. Here is a screenshot of the Craigslist ad.
• Increasing Client Loyalty - This is one of the best tips I have learnt in my 4 years of computer repair and it is probably the most simple and effective one.
• Safety on the job: Visiting clients houses - When people talk about computer repairs one would think that there wouldn’t be much danger involved. I am sure most of you have heard a story or two from a pizza delivery boy who had some scary moments on the job. Well, with pizza delivery boys at least they don’t have to go into the client’s house for at an hour, onsite computer technicians do.

How Tos & Techie Stuff:

• Repair Tool of the Week: Driver Collector - Driver Collector is a tool designed to find and collect installed windows drivers for the hardware you select on your PC. Once you tell it which type of drivers you want to collect, it will copy them to a specific folder. This can be very handy when preparing for a format and reinstall of Windows, especially when you or a client have since lost the computers driver disks.

• How to diagnose bad RAM - Does your computer emit endless beeps during bootup? Does your PC crash for no apparent reason at random intervals? Or you get blue screens of death with errors such as IRQL_Less_or_Not_Equal? If so, then it is very likely that there is a problem with your computers memory (RAM)
• How to install Laptop RAM - This guide has been created to instruct readers (both technicians and consumers alike) the proper procedures of installing laptop memory. It includes a step-by-step illustrated guide on the physical steps required for installing laptop RAM.
• Windows XP Activation Explained - This article explains how Windows Activation works and how much changes to your system you can do before Microsoft considers your computer a new system.
• Troubleshooting Windows Stop Errors: What they mean (in english) - Windows Stop Errors literally mean that Windows has stopped. These only appear in NT based operating systems such as Windows NT, 2000 and XP. Most of the time the errors are caused by hardware problems. A stop error looks like a Blue Screen with a code below it saying something like “Stop 0Ô”0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL” which is the computers way to tell you what is wrong. Here is a list that will tell you what those stop errors mean.