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I used to work for a local store/PC Tech support place, and they are usually pretty well stocked with tools because theyve been doing support long before you or I have.
First day of work, I brought a screwdriver and a utility knife. Realized they had everything though, including an electric screwdriver (the big Black & Decker ones) powertools and drills that could cut thru anything, not like my utility knife, and assorted screws, electric tape, cleaning agents, POSTcards (Like the one at TechIMO's store) and anything else I would have needed; so I just went empty handed by the second week.
When the boss sent me out for some solo on-site work, I usually just carried a screwdriver and a CD pouch full of the diagostic things drivers, and windows disks..customers can never find them when the machine asks for it.
If you were running a PC Repair shop from home though, that would be a different story. A short list of things you would need in that case are.
- Spare Keyboard/Mouse/Monitor (Or a KVM switch if you have another computer in the same room)
- Utility knife..ever so useful, even if just for hacking open UPS boxes.
- Spare parts, especially a harddrive and/or a network card to ghost harddrives before you do work on them.
- CD-RW on some computer to burn drivers and whatnot for the computer being troubleshot (Troubleshot? Sounds weird)
- Couple spare floppys to make bootdisks out of.
- Assorted software Diagnostic tools
- A small pair of extra speakers, no matter how bad, just to test if sound is working.
- Some heatsink compound for CPU's
- Isopropyl Alchohol to cleanstuff with
- Compressed air to blow dust out of tight places
- Hand vacuum to suck up the dust off the ground so it doesnt re-enter the air.
- Electrical tape. Not really sure what I used it for concerning computers, but its on my "tool shelf"
- Set of small screwdrivers. I have a set of 6, they work well with small screws or screws in hard to reach places.
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