PC repair in Elk Grove

Desktop towers of every kind come through the shop: hand-built machines, office systems and prebuilt models from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and Acer. Typical jobs are power supply replacement, motherboard fault finding, graphics card repair, memory and storage upgrades, fan and heatsink service, BIOS recovery and cleanup after a spill. Bring the tower in, or start a quote online and tell us what it is doing.

Desktop symptoms lie. A power supply whose rails sag under load looks like a failing motherboard. A graphics card that artifacts can be a driver problem, a heat problem, or silicon that is genuinely done. Random restarts come from memory, from temperature, or from a power connector that was never fully seated. So we test with a multimeter, a supply tester and POST codes before anyone orders a part. Swapping parts until the symptom stops is an expensive way to learn nothing.

Power supply. Shutdowns under load, a tower that will not start at all, or fans that twitch once and stop. Supplies are tested under load and replaced with a unit rated for what the build actually draws.

Motherboard faults. No POST, a boot loop, or ports and slots that have gone quiet. We read POST codes and follow the power rails across the board, and board-level repair happens at our own bench instead of being shipped out.

Graphics cards. Artifacts on screen, a black display after the driver loads, fans at full speed with nothing on the monitor. We separate driver and thermal causes from a card with a real hardware fault; GPU repair covers what that involves.

Memory and storage. More memory, or moving the system onto an SSD, is often what an ageing tower actually needs. We confirm the board supports it, fit it, and move your existing data across.

Cooling. Dust packed into heatsink fins and thermal paste that has dried out show up as high temperatures, loud fans and clock speeds that drop under load. We strip the cooler, clean it, repaste and replace fans that have gone noisy or stopped.

Past repair, we build desktops to a brief for gaming, work and home use. We also do clean Windows installs, malware cleanup, driver and boot repair, dual-boot Linux setups, and data transfer off drives that are on their way out. A failing drive gets imaged before anything else is attempted on it.

Every repair is quoted after inspection, before any work starts. Diagnostic fee quoted at check-in and applied to your repair if you proceed. Ask about our repair warranty; terms are printed on your repair ticket. Ask about turnaround when you check in; it depends on the repair and parts availability.

When will it be ready? Ask about turnaround when you check in; it depends on the repair and parts availability.

How is it priced? A desktop estimate follows the part and the depth of the work; a power supply swap and a board-level repair are not the same job. Every repair is quoted after inspection, before any work starts. Diagnostic fee quoted at check-in and applied to your repair if you proceed.