If the complaint for NEC P8000 printer was a missing line across the printout, immediately we will suspect the printer head or the ribbon or even sometime the ribbon mask. Among so many brands of dot matrix printers, only this model has one common fault which is the printer head and the printer driver ic’s spoilt.

If you just replace the printer head without changing the main board or checking the printer driver ic for any short circuit, then chances are high that once you switch on the printer, the printer head would immediately breakdown again.

A laptop is a simple and compact computer. Still, its compactness, the reason for the intricacies and complications. For example, while most ordinary PC into a motherboard that has different ports connected to various other components of the computer, a laptop, on the other side has a motherboard that has a lot of things that are built into them, instead of sections in which other parts can be attached. An example of this can be a sound card that appears often with their ownPart for older PCs and must be plugged on the motherboard of a computer. However, the audio and video display card is integrated with the motherboard in the case of the laptop.

Okay, you're not sure whether you should monkeying around in your computer. You do not have a guarantee of long-term service contract and everything, right? Yes, I understand. But what you do not know whether the PC support industry slowly dies out or moved offshore.

Yep … my "bread and butter" work (the food on the table for me has more than 18 + years) is going the way of the buggy whip and horse-drawn carriage.

As computers are becoming smaller, more compact andmore appliance-like "desktop support technician will be outdated and useless. And what is a Razr phone or a BlackBerry, if not computerized communication device? Can one say, Star Trek?