We now have a range of pow­er­ful gam­ing PC’s cus­tom built to play games as such as Mod­ern War­fare 3 and Bat­tle­field 3.

Such PC’s start from around £500.

We only use top qual­ity parts which we have tested, researched and reviewed.

We also take advice from trust­wor­thy sources such as Over­clock 3D .net (nice to meet you at the Gad­get­Show Live Professional!)

Get in touch — call or pop in for more infor­ma­tion. We’re happy to help.

As we have posted before we have been test­ing the Sam­sung Galaxy Tab 10.1″ for busi­ness use.

Annoy­ingly we have fell vic­tim to the oil slick, new­ton rings problem.

We have been read­ing online that you may be able to fix the prob­lem by putting the tab in the fridge for an hour or so. We think this is totally unac­cept­able! We bought the 16gb WiFi ver­sion for £400.00 not some­thing that I fancy hav­ing to put in the fridge every now and again. We have also heard that putting a sucker on the screen and gen­tly pulling may also tem­porar­ily fix the problem.

We took our tab back to PC World (where we bought it from) on Mon­day 3rd Octo­ber. Annoy­ingly they wouldn’t swap it for a new one as we’ve had it for more than 21 days. So I was told they would get it sent back to Sam­sung urgently as they “under­stand my frus­tra­tions” and I need it back for work!

I have just been to PC World (Fri­day 07th Oct) (as they wouldn’t answer their phone) to see how they are get­ting on with my tab. I was so annoyed to find out that it still has not been sent off to Sam­sung. The cheeky guy behind the counter even said to me when I handed over my book­ing form “Oh yeah its the Sam­sung Galaxy Tab with the bro­ken screen isn’t it?” I said “NO! It’s the stu­pid man­u­fac­tur­ing defect!”

I then went to have a look at some of the other tabs as I want to get myself an Asus EEE Trans­former with the dock. I saw their Sam­sung Galaxy Tab on dis­play and was amazed to see that the one they had on dis­play actu­ally has the same oil slick problem!!!!

So we took a video of the prob­lem which can be viewed by click­ing the link below. Please like the video and / or leave a com­ment if you are also fac­ing the same problem!

- Taken from Sam­sung Galaxy Oil Slick Problem

We now stock PC/Laptop Air dusters.
Appar­ently, we are the only place in Wolver­hamp­ton that sell them too!

£6 Each or 3 for £14!

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We cur­rently also have an offer on CD Wallets!

£2 Each or 3 packs for £5!

WATCH THIS NEWS FEED FOR MORE SPECIAL OFFERS!

If you have a bug or fly crawl­ing on the inside of your lap­top screen, i am afraid you have been hit by “Thun­der bugs (thirps)” they are noto­ri­ous for get­ting into places that you dont think should be pos­si­bly, screens, watches, calculators.

This usu­ally only hap­pens in sum­mer months of July and August, the best advise we can give is to ignore it, do not squash it. It will go in a few days time.  Tak­ing your lap­top apart will not help as the bug will actu­ally be inside the screen.

Some advice we have seen on other forums is to turn off the lap­top, put a bright desk lamp next to your screen, the the­ory is that the bug will be attracted to the light from the lamp. It seems to work.

Let us know how you get on.

• Callout/On-site work. You can call a tech­ni­cian out to you, to your place of work or home.
• Col­lect & Return. You can book a tech­ni­cian to come and col­lect your com­puter, repair it, and redeliver it.

We under­stand that some peo­ple have high pri­or­ity problems.

Whether you’re in Wolver­hamp­ton for the day on a busi­ness trip, need to get those urgent accounts sub­mit­ted, need to get that impor­tant data to a client — we have the solu­tion for you.

Our express pri­or­ity repair ser­vice is a same­day tar­get­ted ser­vice to suit your needs.

You will receive a per­sonal ser­vice and have an engi­neer assigned specif­i­cally to your job which you will be able to com­mu­ni­cate directly with.

Get in touch urgently if this is what you need! See our con­tact page or call 01902 713137.

With tech­nol­ogy becom­ing more and more pop­u­lar and com­put­ers being increas­ingly inte­gral to mod­ern day life, every­one has a so-called “expert” friend.

Recently we’re find­ing that a grow­ing num­ber of peo­ple are con­sult­ing their “expert” friend, who’s “in the busi­ness” and an “IT pro­fes­sional”. Iron­i­cally, they still have to come to a proper shop (that’s where we come in) to get the prob­lem sorted. 95% of the time, things are made far worse by the so-called pro­fes­sion­als hav­ing a go them­selves. [Eg: some­one takes a lap­top apart them­selves and ends up round­ing screws, break­ing eye­lets, crack­ing plas­tics, snap­ping cables and loos­ing parts.]

So — for­get your “expert” friend and come and con­sult the real pro­fes­sional engineers.

Remem­ber — being a pro­fes­sional in the IT indus­try is NOT the same as being a pro­fes­sional, expe­ri­enced IT tech­ni­cian, engi­neer and lap­top spe­cial­ist.
Being in the “IT indus­try” can count as just about any­thing, and doesn’t mean that they know how to prop­erly repair com­put­ers and lap­tops — espe­cially virus prob­lems and hard­ware problems.

Just need advice?

Just ask us! Get proper, pro­fes­sional advice from our tech­ni­cans who work 6 days a week doing hands-on repairs with more than 30 years com­bined experience.

We don’t charge for advice! Pop into our shop, give us a call or send an email via our con­tact form.

We don’t mind giv­ing out free advice. We aspire to be as help­ful and friendly as possible.

Remem­ber:
We’re here to help, and we’re the REAL experts.

We’ve expanded our Apple services!

We have another new line of repair! We now repair iPods and iPhones.
That means we repair basi­cally all the “i” series of Apple Devices.

For more infor­ma­tion click here

[ Click HERE to visit our Lap­tops Page to see what we cur­rently have in stock ]

Sam­sung R530 Laptop

We now stock high qual­ity, high spec, mod­ern, styl­ish refurbished/used lap­tops from just £199.

Stock­ing makes such as:

Asus
Toshiba
Dell
Sony Vaio
Com­paq
Acer

Very lim­ited stock per lap­top — stock always changing.

Visit our Lap­tops Page for infor­ma­tion on what we cur­rently have in stock, or give us a call!

Impor­tant Info:
Accord­ing to our research and test­ing, the most reli­able makes of lap­top are Asus, Toshiba, Dell, Sony Vaio.
War­ranties are applic­a­ble where explic­itly stated and vary per lap­top.
On some lap­tops, man­u­fac­turer war­ranties are still valid — where stated.
Refur­bished & used is defined as a sec­ond hand lap­top which has been any or all of the fol­low­ing: checked over, fixed/repaired, upgraded (soft­ware and/or hard­ware) or oth­er­wise improved.

Call to see what we have in stock — 01902 713 137

Or pop into our shop:

Con­cep­tex Com­put­ers & Lap­tops
34 Snow Hill
City Cen­tre
Wolver­hamp­ton
WV2 4AG

Every­one using Bull­guard Inter­net Secu­rity or Bull­guard Antivirus may be get­ting a mes­sage from Bull­guard saying:

“Bull­guard has blocked an infected file”

xxxxxxx.trojan.heur.xxxxxxx

This hap­pens after the lat­est Win­dows 7 update. Bull­guard is ana­lyz­ing new Win­dows files, and one of them has sim­i­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics to a trojan/virus — so it blocks it.

Noth­ing to worry about!

As a lot of Advent lap­top own­ers may know, there is a lit­tle fan but­ton on most Advent lap­tops which turns “Silent Mode” on and off.
After re-installing win­dows, you will need to install the fol­low­ing soft­ware called “Advent OSD”. This will enable you to use Silent Mode.

Silent mode slows down the Cen­tral Pro­cess­ing Unit and qui­etens down the fan(s)

Link: Click here for OSD Software

Packard Bell Easyn­ote SJ51 XP Audio Drivers

If you have rein­stalled your Packard Bell Easyn­ote SJ51 with Win­dows XP, you may stug­gle to find the dri­vers for it.

Fol­low these steps:

Try…  Click here for Dri­ver Download

If Conex­ant installer gives the com­mon error.….force install the conex­ant sound drivers.

Device Manager>Audio device on High Def Bus

Right click, Update Driver

Say “no, not at this time” for con­nect­ing to Win­dows Update

Select> Install from a list or spe­cific location

Select> Don’t search I will choose the dri­ver to install

In the list of com­mon hard­ware types,choose “show all”

Remove the check from “Show Com­pat­i­ble Hard­ware” and click on “Have Disk”

Next…browse to C:\Swsetup\sp34386

Choose the “inf” and ignore any protest from XP

Reboot.

Your audio will be working.

A mali­cious peice of soft­ware called “Sys­tem Tool 2011″ has swept the Inter­net over the last few days in a mas­sive attack.

The cre­ators of this mali­cious soft­ware have attacked a num­ber of third-party adver­tis­ing web­sites which dis­play ad’s on thou­sands of web­sites, such as the Lon­don Stock Exchange, eBay, Auto­trader, Megau­pload, Medi­afire and MyVue.
This soft­ware installs itself onto a machine by using a popup claim­ing your pc is infected, the user clicks this, often through an equally fake red ‘X’ in the top right cor­ner which in turn gives the popup per­mis­sion to install the ‘Sys­tem tool’ pro­gram on your PC.

We can how­ever remove this mali­cious soft­ware from any com­puter for £49.99 includ­ing a 1 year licence of Bull­guard Inter­net Secu­rity Ver­sion 10.

Call us on 01902 713 137 or con­tact us using the con­tact form.

Here are a cou­ple of exam­ples of what you may see if you are infected with Sys­tem Tool 2011:

If you have recently re-installed win­dows on your Advent Roma Lap­top, you may strug­gle to find the dri­vers for it.

Click here to down­load the dri­vers from MediaFire

Part One: Click here
Part Two: Click here

Advent Roma Audio Dri­vers
Advent Roma Chipset Dri­vers
Advent Roma Intel Matrix Stor­age Dri­vers
Advent Roma LAN Dri­vers
Advent Roma OSD Dri­vers
Advent Roma Touch­pad Dri­vers
Advent Roma VGA Dri­vers
Advent Roma WLAN Drivers

The files are 127MB in size in total, so it may take a while to download.

Annoyed by adverts? Trou­bled by track­ing? Both­ered by ban­ners? Install Adblock Plus now to regain con­trol of the inter­net and change the way that you view the web.

* Block all ads auto­mat­i­cally, no dis­trac­tions
* Browse faster and safer
* Fully cus­tomiz­able — you are in con­trol
* Easy to con­tribute, report issues when you see them

Down­load for Fire­fox here: Click here
Down­load for Chrome here: Click here

Adblock Plus allows you to regain con­trol of the inter­net and view the web the way you want to. The add-on is sup­ported by over forty fil­ter sub­scrip­tions in dozens of lan­guages which auto­mat­i­cally con­fig­ure it for pur­poses rang­ing from remov­ing online adver­tis­ing to block­ing all known mal­ware domains. Adblock Plus also allows you to cus­tomize your fil­ters with the assis­tance of a vari­ety of use­ful fea­tures, includ­ing a con­text option for images, a block tab for Flash and Java objects, and a list of block­able items to remove scripts and stylesheets.

Sony Vaio will cover the costs to repair your nVidia chip if the machines is four years old or less!

Dis­torted video, ran­dom char­ac­ters or blank screen issues due to fail­ure of the NVIDIA graph­ics chip.

In July 2008, NVIDIA pub­licly acknowl­edged a fail­ure asso­ci­ated with some of their graph­ics proces­sors (GPU) due to a man­u­fac­tur­ing defect in the graph­ics chip pack­ag­ing. At that time Sony and NVIDIA jointly inves­ti­gated whether VAIO mod­els equipped with this GPU were impacted by this issue. This inves­ti­ga­tion revealed that the issue had not occurred in such VAIO models.

How­ever, after closely mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion, Sony has now deter­mined that a very small per­cent­age of VAIO com­put­ers with the NVIDIA graph­ics chips may be affected.
These PCs may exhibit dis­torted video, ran­dom char­ac­ters or a blank screen due to a fail­ure of the NVIDIA graph­ics chip.

Res­o­lu­tion
As a part of our com­mit­ment to qual­ity, for any cus­tomer who requires repair of their VAIO com­puter due to the NVIDIA graph­ics proces­sor issue, Sony will cover the cost of repair (parts and labor) at no charge dur­ing the first four years fol­low­ing the date of pur­chase of the mod­els in ques­tion (see list below).
In case your model is shown in the list below, we invite you to con­tact SONY VAIO directly to arrange ser­vice for your VAIO.

Applic­a­ble Mod­els
• VGN-FZ11x, VGN-FZ18x, VGN-FZ21x, VGN-FZ31x, VGN-FZ38x
• VGN-AR11x, VGN-AR21x, VGN-AR31x
• VGN-C1Zx, VGN-C1Zx
• VGC-LM1xx, VGC-LM2xx
• VGC-LT1xx, VGC-LT2xx

The new GeForce GTX 550 Ti brings awe­some DX11 per­for­mance to the main­stream $149 PC gam­ing segment.

The new $149 3D Vision wire­less glasses kit trans­forms PC games, videos, pho­tographs, and Web brows­ing into an amaz­ing, immer­sive 3D experience.

PC gam­ing just got a lot more fun today with the intro­duc­tion of two new prod­ucts: the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti graph­ics pro­cess­ing unit (GPU) and a new ver­sion of the NVIDIA 3D Vision wire­less glasses kit, both with an esti­mated e-tail price of $149 USD.

The GTX 550 Ti is the lat­est in NVIDIA Fermi line of con­sumer GPUs, designed to deliver stun­ning DirectX 11 (DX11) per­for­mance. It brings a new level of price/performance to main­stream PC gam­ing, while main­tain­ing excep­tion­ally quiet acoustics and requir­ing min­i­mal power.

Like all NVIDIA “DX11 Done Right” GPUs, the GTX 550 Ti deliv­ers the world’s fastest per­for­mance in its class for DX11 games. Compared with the clos­est com­pet­i­tive prod­uct, the GTX 550 Ti is up to 50 per­cent faster in today’s newest DX11 tes­sel­lated games, and 38 per­cent fasterⁱ in previous-generation DX9 and DX10 games. And with NVIDIA SLI tech­nol­ogy, the industry’s most scal­able multi-GPU plat­form, gamers will be able to increase their PC’s gam­ing per­for­mance by adding a sec­ond GeForce GTX 550 Ti.

Intro­duced two years ago, NVIDIA 3D Vision has quickly trans­formed con­sumers’ gam­ing, pho­to­graphic, and video expe­ri­ences, and cur­rently sup­ports more than 500 3D games, a broad ecosys­tem of hard­ware and soft­ware part­ners, and 3DVisionLive.com, the first ever online 3D Vision com­mu­nity. Today, NVIDIA is pleased to announce a new ver­sion of the 3D Vision wire­less glasses kit that costs $50 less than the orig­i­nal ver­sion, but also offers the same great 3D qual­ity and fea­tures, and a recharge­able bat­tery life of 60 hours, a 50 per­cent improve­ment over the original.

“The GTX 550 Ti paired with our 3D Vision tech­nol­ogy pro­vides gamers with an amaz­ing low-cost plat­form that deliv­ers an awe­some immer­sive expe­ri­ence,” said Drew Henry, gen­eral man­ager of GeForce GPU busi­ness at NVIDIA. “As the leader in PC gam­ing hard­ware, we are excited about the future of PC gam­ing and how we can make those expe­ri­ences as immer­sive as possible.”

With an esti­mated sell­ing e-tail price start­ing at $149 USD, the GTX 550 Ti is avail­able start­ing today from the world’s lead­ing add-in card part­ners, includ­ing ASL, ASUS, Col­or­ful, ECS, EVGA, Gain­ward, Galaxy, Giga­byte, Inno­vi­sion 3D, Jet­way, Lead­tek, MSI, Palit, Point of View, PNY, Sparkle, Zotac and others.

As you all may know, Sony’s Playsta­tion Net­work has been down over the last 6 days, due to an “Exter­nal Intru­sion” (in other words, it’s been hacked)

Sony have con­firmed this morn­ing that “Per­sonal Infor­ma­tion”, for exam­ple: Names, Addresses, PSN User­names & Pass­words have been stolen from their systems.

They have yet to con­firm if Credit/Debit Card details have been compromised.

We advise EVERYONE that is signed up to Playsta­tion Net­work to change ALL pass­words, if you use the same one for Playsta­tion Network.

Also, Sony have stated that any­one sub­scribed to PSN+ will NOT get com­pen­sa­tion for the down­time.