Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Today, during my day as an intern at ITS I worked on a few different pc's. I worked on pc's that previous interns had not completed before me during the week to get them running to test Windows 7 and Clonezilla. All three pc's had different problems to address. There was only one of the three pc's we were working on finished by the time I had to leave. It had problems that I had never encountered before. At first I could not get it to boot, it would only turn for about 3-4 seconds before turing off. It would repeat this until we cut the power too it. After trying several things we finally decided to reseat everything inside the pc and after that it seemed to run fine. The other two pc's we run hardware diagnostics on them to see if they had hardware issues since neither of them would boot properly. We used a diagnostic tool that Mike gave us on flash drive, but it crashed twice before diagnosing a problem. The other pc was a Dell and was able to run the hardware diagnostic on the partitioned drive. I had never used either of these tools so it was a good learning experience for me today.