<strong>Your Name: </strong>Allan Zhang<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2011/01/28

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T F

<strong>Total hours for week: </strong>8.5

<strong>The School:</strong><em> </em>Reavis

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>This week was rather unexciting, mostly because a lot of time was spent on my part sitting around and waiting for slow computers to finish doing things. For the most part, my week was spent trying to speed up a lot of slower computers through whatever means possible. For the following computers, I did a temporary file cleanup, hard disk check, malware scan, and defragmentation + optimization, in that order:

A computer in rooms 203, 205, 207, 204, 114, 107, 2. I spent a lot of time on the computer in room 2, mostly because it was far slower than any other computers. In the end though, I just concluded that a Pentium III computer + 256 MB of unupgradable RAM was the culprit, so I'll have to go and replace it next week.

On Friday, I had my first run in with the mother of all tech problems: Printer issues. A printer in room 114 got jammed, and although I cleared the jam, it just refused to work properly. For some reason, it doesn't like to load papers consistently, though I'm not sure why as I can't actually see the rollers in action.

Then I switched the printer with another one in the room, and that one ended up not working properly either. This time though, the problem was that nothing that used the black ink printed. I switched the ink cartridges out even though the printer didn't report the ink levels as being low, but to no avail. The problem might be with the computer itself, though I'm not sure how that would be the case. I'll have to go back and look at it again.

I also helped a teacher with a Mac laptop connect to the printer, though it didn't like to work properly for some reason. I ended up fixing it, but only after fiddling around with the settings a bit more. Damn Macs &gt;:|

In the end, I just concluded that a lot of computers needed a fresh install of Windows, and a RAM upgrade. The only problem is that most of the computers have old motherboards that only support 168 pin versions of DRAM, while all of the spare RAM that we have on hand is of the 184 pin variety. I'm not sure what to do about that other than just switch out those computers out with new computers. I don't think that should be a problem, since I can just switch out the wireless cards between computers if necessary. I also discovered that we have another giant stock of unused computers in room 5 that can be distributed out. I'll get on that next week.