Your Name: Xavier Hernandez

TodayÃ¢â¬â¢s Date: 2006/11/03

Day(s) worked or described: W ÃÂ¸ F

Total hours for week: 6

The School: Murray

Kind of Work: Tech general

Main Report or Narrative:

I finished fixing up the computers in the lab. ÃÂ There are 26 working computers and one that I still need to finish installing Windows on. ÃÂ There are 5 computers on the floor of room 204 that are not working. ÃÂ Some won't startup, others claim to have no hard drive, and one doesn't want to run windows at all (won't let me reinstall it either). ÃÂ I tried installing the hard drive from some of the non-working computers to the computer that gives the no hard drive error but the computer would not recognize any of them (tried with 4 different hard drives).
There were two old IBM's in the room that each had 64mb of RAM. ÃÂ Since it doesn't make sense to have two poorly functioning computers as opposed to one good computer, I removed the RAM from one and installed it in the other. ÃÂ There was also an ACER that had a bad cd-rom so I replaced it with the one from the IBM that had its RAM removed.
We wereÃÂ hopingÃÂ toÃÂ haveÃÂ 20ÃÂ workingÃÂ computersÃÂ inÃÂ theÃÂ labÃÂ butÃÂ sinceÃÂ weÃÂ haveÃÂ 26,ÃÂ theÃÂ onesÃÂ thatÃÂ areÃÂ notÃÂ workingÃÂ areÃÂ notÃÂ aÃÂ priorityÃÂ atÃÂ the moment.I reminded Joe about the non-functioning Dells that I sent you guys an email about and he said he would call Dell on Monday. ÃÂ Mr. Mills said he was going to inform the teachers that they could start using room 204 starting next week. ÃÂ He seemed pretty excited that the lab was good to go. ÃÂ One more thing, on Wed Joe was having trouble adding a networked printer onto a teacher station in room 116. ÃÂ I checked it out before I left and set the printer up fairly quickly. ÃÂ Afterwards I told Joe what the problem wasÃÂ (insteadÃÂ ofÃÂ goingÃÂ toÃÂ "addÃÂ aÃÂ networkÃÂ printer"
youÃÂ haveÃÂ toÃÂ goÃÂ to "addÃÂ aÃÂ localÃÂ printer",ÃÂ uncheckÃÂ theÃÂ "searchÃÂ forÃÂ plugÃÂ andÃÂ playÃÂ printers"ÃÂ box,ÃÂ click "next", andÃÂ then add the IP address for the printer  you want to add), so he shouldn't have trouble with it in the future.There are apparently about 4 or 5 HP printers in the lab that areÃÂ not working. ÃÂ They are all from various classrooms. I'll be checking those out next week and hopefully I can get those working. ÃÂ I need a few asset tags for some of the computers. ÃÂ I asked Mr. Mills for some but he has no idea how to go about getting some. ÃÂ Hopefully you guys read these reports and can tell Joe how to get those tags. There was one more thing I meant to ask you guys but since I forgot I'll shoot you an email if/when I remember.

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