Archive for the ‘Troubleshooting’ Category

As you may or may not know, I run a business out of my home called Tech Guy Consulting. I’ve been doing this since I was 17 and have developed a pretty decent customer base in my home area. One of my loyal customers brought me their 2 year old Dell Inspiron 1525 tonight with a handful of issues, but only one stood out to me as “outside the norm.” After a factory restore, the computer power management icon (the little picture of a battery with a power cord over it –in the bottom right hand of the screen) show that the power supply is “plugged in not charging.” So I eliminated all software issues right off the bat: Read the rest of this entry »