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These are a few my recent iPod repair experiences.
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Damon Candelarie is in the US Navy.
For the past three years he has been stationed in Japan. While there he dropped and smashed the LCD screen on his 5th Generation video iPod.
In Japan the cost of merely having the LCD replaced was $200 but using the Internet he found me and because his mother lives here in town knew he could work it out through me for less when he was stateside.
The LCD was $33 and labor was $40. He leaves for a three year stationing in Italy next week.
Fixed - Total cost $73.
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Aaron Fish lives in Sonoma near here in Santa Rosa.
He has a 3rd Gen iPod that had a few problems. The biggest was his battery wouldn't
hold a charge but also his headphone jack had an intermit connection.
I always like to keep the cost of work in line with the value of the finished
iPod to encourage people to repair them so I charged $10 for the battery and
threw in at no charge the needed headphone jack replacement and a much nicer
backplate for it.
Aaron's repair was a total of $50.
Fixed - Total cost $50.
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Michael Deas lives in Santa Rosa but goes to University of California at Santa Barbara, California
( a rough life huh?).
He was given a HP laptop from his folks for Christmas a year ago that came Windows XP Media Edition on it. Anyone that knows me knows I dislike Windows as an operating system. Since I'm trained in 8 hardware environments and 17 operating systems I can detect something awful as an OS pretty quickly. Windows is the only OS that obligates you to re-boot your whole machine when a process stops. There are far better ways to manage open programs, files and memory management but Microsoft has pursued them, Good enough seems to be Okay with them.
Michael thought he would upgrade the operating system on the laptop to Microsoft Vista. Halfway through the upgrade the process stopped and he wasn't able get it past a "Blue Screen of Death" ever again. And the DVD reader/writer wouldn't get recognized by the BIOS. I changed the drive and tried to use my Windows XP "upgrade/restore" disk and it wouldn't let me format the partition and start again with a fresh drive.
In order for me to get the machine to work, I had to take the hard drive out and mount it in my Macintosh, then format it there in the HFS format which looks unformatted to a Windows machine (even the MAC OS will see mount, read and write a FAT16/32 or NTFS disk).
Once the drive was formatted as "unreadable" that way I put it back into the HP laptop and then was able to run the Windows XP install disk. Of course the machine had contracted a virus before the install was even finished, so I launched Internet Explorer and then went to tools and pulled down to Update Windows and ran the express Update. I had to do this process several times to actually bring the machine to the Service Pack 3 level.
This was not an experience that made feel better about Windows. I really can't imagine Bill Gates does his own admin work on his laptop so he is connected to Windows as John McCain is to email which is to say not all. (Did you know that John McCain doesn't know how to use email *or* and internet browser. He can't use a Blackberry or send a text message either.)
It cost Michael $125 to get his laptop back and working again.
Fixed - Total cost $125.
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I'm in Sonoma County... Northern California wine country.
If you live nearby, are traveling through or live in the San Francisco Bay Area bring your iPod to me and I can do the work while you wait or go wine tasting for a while. Send me an
email just to make sure I have on hand whatever parts your repair will require.
Call or email me
with questions or to set up a repair. You can also call, I am here most days from 8am to 8pm
Toll Free 1-877-IPOD-PRO (1 - 877 - 476-3776)
Send the device to:
Frank Walburg
2145 Service Court
Santa Rosa, Ca 95403-3139
Methods of payment
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