<strong>Your Name: Fernando Castro</strong><strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2012/01/30

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> Week 4 M Θ 

<strong>Total hours for week: 6</strong>

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

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Lab supervision

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

Last Monday, I helped Ms. Parham with one of her computers that wasn’t turning on. The power light on the computer would shine orange instead of green, and the fan would be running really loudly during startup, but the computer would never reach the BIOS screen. This was the same problem that I had with a computer last week in room 104, and it was also the same type of computer (Dell Optiplex gx270). I took Mitch’s advice and tried reseating the RAM, unplugging and re-plugging some of the power cables, as well as the network card, and it seemed to fix the problem. The computer successfully booted on the first try and I haven’t heard any other problems from Ms. Parham. I then tried the same thing on the computer in 104, but it didn’t work. I noticed that one of the intel chips (not sure of its function) on the motherboard looked damaged, which may have been the problem. I spoke with Mr. Smith and told him that the computer would probably have to be replaced.

I was also asked on Monday to hook up a second computer to a printer in Room 101. I came back on Thursday to try and share the printer with the new computer (again taking Mitch’s advice) since the printer didn’t have wireless capability. However, one of the computers couldn’t connect to the internet because it didn’t have any network card. Since I didn’t have a second USB cable to have a wired connection or an extra network card to get the other computer onto the internet, I was instructed to leave the situation be for now. I spoke with Mr. Smith about potentially getting some USB cables just in case anyone would ever need them and he said he would see what he could do.