KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED: What This Blue Screen Means and How to Fix It

Jul 27, 2026

KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED is almost always a driver or memory problem. Here’s the safe fix order, what the file name in parentheses tells you, and when to bring it to our Somerville NJ shop.

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Monitor Damaged? When a Broken Monitor Is Worth Fixing — and When It Isn’t

Jul 27, 2026

Cracked panel, a line of dead pixels, or a monitor that won’t light up — which failures are repairable, which aren’t, and the one-minute test that tells you.

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Windows Defender Keeps Turning Off by Itself? That’s a Symptom, Not a Setting

Jul 24, 2026

If your virus protection keeps switching itself off, something is switching it off. The innocent cause, the malware cause, and how to tell which one you have.

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SD Card and USB Stick Recovery Software: What Actually Works on Flash Media

Jul 22, 2026

Recovery software only works when the flash media is healthy and the files are merely deleted. What to use, what to skip, and when running a scan makes things worse.

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Computer Monitor Display Issues: How to Tell If It’s the Monitor, the Cable, or the PC

Jul 20, 2026

No signal, flicker, lines, weird colors — every monitor problem is one of three suspects. The five-minute swap test that identifies which one you have.

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Ubiquiti UniFi G6 Turret white retail box at our New Jersey computer shop

Google Nest Cam vs UniFi G6 Turret: Our NJ Shop Camera Upgrade

Jul 18, 2026

We retired the old Google Nest Cams laying around our NJ shop and upgraded to the Ubiquiti UniFi G6 Turret on our Cloud Key NVR. Here’s the full comparison chart — and why the picture quality blew us away.

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BIOS screen of an older MSI Z170A Gaming M7 PC with Intel i7-6700K brought into our NJ shop to reuse old PC parts in a new build

Reusing Old PC Parts in a New Build: A Real NJ Upgrade Story

Jul 18, 2026

A customer brought an 8-year-old gaming PC into our NJ shop. Instead of selling him an entirely new computer, we reused his 3 hard drives and RTX 3050 — and gave him two build options starting at $1,000.

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Why I Build Custom PCs From Scratch in NJ: The AM5 Memory Problem a Prebuilt Seller Never Caught

Jul 18, 2026

A customer’s prebuilt gaming PC would not POST because of an AM5 memory training issue the builder could have prevented with one BIOS update. Here is how I fixed it, and why every custom build I do in Somerville NJ goes through cross checks before it leaves the bench.

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SSD taped inside a Dell desktop case instead of mounted with screws, brought to Dave's Computers in Somerville NJ after a big box repair

Why Hiring the Geeks Isn’t Always the Best Choice for Computer Repair in NJ

Jul 17, 2026

A customer walked into my Somerville shop this week with a Dell desktop and two problems. The first one I could hear before I even opened the case. Something was banging around inside every time the tower moved. The second problem took a little longer to find, and honestly, it bothered me more. The customer […]

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A Failed Gigastone SD Card and the Real Cost of Budget Storage

Jul 17, 2026

A customer’s Gigastone SD card failed with no warning and the data was unrecoverable. Here is why budget flash storage fails, why recovery is not always possible, and the storage brands we actually trust at our Somerville, NJ repair bench.

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