HORRIBLE DELL BUG! Mac power issues on 4 port thunderbolts. And more!

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE – TopTech is designated as an ESSENTIAL BUSINESS and will remain OPEN!

10-7 Monday through Saturday.. And Sunday by appointment. Curbsite Pickup as needed. Pickup and delivery as needed! Even masked!
All of use are well currently – no sign of the VIRUS! Call us! People are coming from Rockville saying we are the only computer store open!

HORRIBLE DELL BUG in Windows 10 V1903 and V1909!!!! BAD POOL CALLER blue screen of death!
If you are getting blue screens with the BAD POOL CALLER error – Guess what?

Its the DELL SUPPORT ASSISTANT. I kid you not. Spent hours beating on a system till I discovered that.

Often this is a driver issue – and I used the Support Assistant to – update drivers! And then crashes happen!!
Just uninstall it – in safe mode if necessary. Or bring it to us. What a bug!!

OVERHEATING ON FOUR PORT THUNDERBOLTS!

If you have a 4 port macbook pro that is overheating you may notice you are plugging the usb c charger power cord into the LEFT SIDE ports!

Try charging on the RIGHT SIDE PORTS – and you may find the overheating disappears!

DONT USE FILEFAULT – REALLY!

Just got a customer’s Mac Air sorted – it could not boot properly would ‘stick’ at right end of the bar and never reach the desktop!
She had FileVault turned on – and when the FV volume gets corrupted, you can have EXACTLY this behavior!
I had to WIPE the drive completely and reinstall from Online – to get it back usable. Sure hope all was backed up!

TOUCHBAR 2016 and 2017 DATA RECOVERY!
If you have a DEAD 2016 or 2017 touchbar, with the SSD not removable – we have a VERY good chance of either repairing

the board – OR – getting the data off the drive even if the board is not repairable!
Pass it around. I’m putting up and ebay auction to offer the service for $195!

REMOTE SUPPORT AT TOPTECH AS LONG AS YOU CAN GET ONLINE WE CAN VISIT!

Particularly in the Coronavirus days – we CAN do a LOT of things remotely from our shop!
Go to www.theeldestgeek.com/support – and download the Remote Support technician.
Run it and put in your name and call us and we can come take over your system remotely

to fix issues! There is a LOT we can do remotely. And the Coronavirus does not travel over

the internet!
Now of course, if you cannot get online — we cant visit 🙂

We will charge for remote visits, but promise to be cheap!


ADOPTION CORNER


And from our website? our Official List – all with 6 month warranty, and prices are negotiable 🙂

SOLD $800 – Macbook Pro 2014 13in retina. 3ghz i7 16gb 256gb MAX!

SOLD $700 – Macbook Pro 2015 13in retina 2.7 i5, 8gb ram, 256gb SSD.
SOLD – Macbook Pro 2017 13in TB 16gb 3.5g i7 512gb MAX!
$2700 – Macbook pro 2018 15in **i9** 32gb of ram!! YES an i-NINE not i7!!
*** STILL UNDER APPLECARE PLUS till 2021. WILL TRANSFER OWNERSHIP!

$2200 – Macbook pro 2018 15in **i7** 16gb of ram 512gb SSD
CORONAVIRUS SPECIAL – $2500 for the i9 and 2000 for the i7 macbooks above!
$??? 21.5 and 27 inch iMacs. We have several we can build up as needed and to spec! Ask!!

$600 Imac 2013 21.5in 1tb platter, 8gb ram. NICE!

$850 – Dell Precision 5510 – VERY NICE 15in workstation laptop! 6th gen i7, 16gb ram, 256gb SSD.

SOLD $650 – HP Spectre 13in Rosegold 2-in-1
SOLD $100 – HP EliteBook 8540p – i5-520M 2.4GHz$450 Microsoft Surface Pro 4 – i5 4th gen, 256gb SSD 8gb ram Win10

SOLD $450 Microsoft Surface Pro 4 – i5 4th gen, 256gb SSD 8gb ram Win10

SOLD $550 Microsoft Surface Pro 4 – i5 SIXTH gen, 256gb SSD 8gb ram Win10