I have been doing my own website for some time now, actually for about three years, and have had a number of websites before the one I have at this time. A week ago a client of mine was at a conference and text me saying The session I am in is called What questions to ask when hiring a web developer. I was kind of excited to see such a simple question might expound into important headway for the naive. After I started seeing the text of key points I was sadly unimpressed, What is your rate?, What is your typical project cost?, What is the turnaround time?, and so on. The questions here are typical questions to ask anyone asking for money from you for a service. I have a business that is based almost 100 percent on the internet and I hear these questions from the calls I field, but they do not ask the afterthought, small print, paper hanger questions. Those questions floating out in the world being ready to be grabbed down are the important questions to me and I feel should be to you. If you are paying for a session at a conference based on technology advancements I feel more in depth questions should be posed.

Website design simple point number one is, What is your website?

Trust me if their website looks unimpressive then no doubt your website will be the same caliber. Remember, first impressions are the key to making informed decisions. If a website developer has a website that looks as good if not better than a high school term paper then the hunt should go on.

Which leads us to another point, Do I own my own website?

I do remember this question being mention in the text from the conference, but the question is incorrect. Personally I feel the question needs to be phrased as, Do I own my domain name? This point is so important it can make or break you as a website owner in a matter of thirty seconds. Owning your own domain name means you own your brand, identity, and intellectual property, which we will get back to later. Too many website developers give you great deals saying they will do an all-inclusive package, but register the domain in their name tying you to them forever. I experienced an example of this recently when contacting a website owner in regards to buying a domain name one of my clients was interested in. To the point, they never owned it and the website company locally which did own it wanted to sell it for 50 times the registration cost. They never saw the value in this question until say two weeks ago when they found out they did not own their domain name.

Intellectual property, which I mentioned earlier, is another point to question. We can separate this into two key questions, Do I own my text and content? and Is my content unique to only my website? I will take the first question head on. All websites and their content are inherently copyrighted, provided they are original works. Remember if you do not own your website, you do not own your content under United States Copyright and Trademarking laws and DCMA. With a simple copyright sign the content becomes the website owners stripping you of your ownership rights. Also, if you have a website developer who places a website up with generic text for you with a copyright then the website, text, design, pictures, and layout are all copyrighted to them allowing them to take it with them if you choose another firm to design your website. This tactic is very common and may be misconstrued as unethical, but is also legal. Now to the second question, Is my content unique to only my website? Producing a website that is great in layout and design making it an eye pleasing website does not mean that 50 plus websites do not use the same design. Branding your website as your own is the key, but when your keywords and content are duplicated across say 20 different websites you have another problem. Google new search engine, Panda, will exclude your website, pages, and posts based on the algorithm that matches your content to other websites. Duplicate content will do more to damage your website in the short term and long run. I had a client I was courting for developing a website who choose another web developer who does local work, but all of his pages are syndicated, or developed in the same manner with the same keywords and tags, which gets them flagged by Google as duplicate content. When doing a simple Google search their website was located on the 23rd page of Google which means that the only activity they will be getting on that page will be through print and radio. Now I have a local client myself whom has individualized content, specialized tags, and a unique website that with a few changes after my development when from the 16th page of Google to the 2nd page of Google for their ultra-competitive keyword in 5 hours.

This point above brings us to another question, Do you place a tag at the bottom of my website as a hyperlink, and if you do, do you use no-follow rules?

Little does anyone ever notice, but those hyperlinks advertise your developer for free while hindering your website. As the bots and spiders from Bing, Google, and Yahoo search your webpage they follow the last link on the page which leads them out of your page to the developers page giving them domain authority, page rank, and advertising. All the advertising you do for your website can be lost to one simple link to your developer unless no-follow rules are enforced. I see too often web developers use this to boost their standing in Google without paying, but it is also done without permission from you. The difference between a PR3 page and PR4 can be 5 pages in a Google search depending on the keyword so one do-follow link can and will take 1 PR from your page to give to their website. If the link is in the footer, then you have it syndicated across all of your webpages in your entire website.

Finally, the last statement involves math and patience, What is the cost? Now above the conference asked this question in a number of forms, but mainly you need a complete cost. Too often clients skim over the hidden cost and additional fees and sign on, then get a website that is later held hostage like one of the people in Die Hard until someone has to come in like Bruce Willis to save them all from the end. I had a client I was negotiating a contract with that chooses another firm over price; the price I quoted was $500 for design work. The client based their decision on price which I ask, How much does your other firm charge? I was astonished to find that the developer, who is local, charged $250 to setup the website which seems like a great price, but then $45.00 for hosting per month along with $25.00 for a monthly maintenance fee. The client stated that the $250 versus $500 was the key, but when pointing out that their $250 fee really cost $1,090 a year versus the $500 plus $10.00 for a domain and $68.00 for web hosting the point was made. If price is the key then a few moments talking can get the bottom dollar amount. You cannot walk in to buy a car not knowing all the fees and cost explained so getting a website should be the same.

Now the list goes on and on for questions on getting a website, but remember no question is a bad question, and if you have a question feel free to use the form below to contact me.

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This move and lease has been a long time coming and hopefully we can serve the area with the same professional services of Chattanooga laptop repair that we have offered online through our website and onsite with Chattanooga laptop repair. Our office will service laptops, desktops, and other electronics along with providing onsite support for local Chattanooga laptop repair services. We do service Apple products such as iMacs and MacBook systems with our Chattanooga laptop repair services.

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My laptop turns on, but I see no video?

What if my need is not listed?

As an electronics technician, laptops and desktops are not the only items I work on. If you have a specific need that is not listed above, please feel free to email me at

This section will try to answer the most often asked questions I get.

Follow the links below for an indepth answer to each question.

My desktop turns on. I see no video?

What if my need is not listed?

As an electronics technician, laptops and desktops are not the only items I work on. If you have a specific need that is not listed above, please feel free to email me at

Copper shim question – Do you add copper shims or pennies?

What if my need is not listed?

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This section will try to answer the most often asked questions I get.

My laptop will not charge my battery?

What if my need is not listed?

COPPER SHIMS UPDATED: Do you add copper shims or pennies, and do they work if they are used?

In a previous article I had written, Do you use pennies or copper shims?, I had tried to explain in a straightforward and concise manner that copper shims do not help cool your chipsets in a proper manner as to keep it from overheating.

To get to my update one day I was speaking to a computer shop owner whom had called me to express his desire to add copper shims to his laptop repairs. I tried my best to convince him that copper shims cause issues when trying to cool the system. Between the capacitors located on the top of the chipset and overloading the motherboard electrical circuits, my warnings were let go by the way side. He stated, I can just add pennies to act as copper shims and get the chipset to cool down and my customers will be happy in the end. Now, this is where I started thinking. My father is an avid coin collector and stamp collector and is electronics professional. He has done both for many years so I decided to ask him a few questions. As I was asking him questions, he decided to ask me one which was, How much copper do you think is in a penny? This got me to thinking, Yeah, your right how much copper is in a penny? Well, the chart below explains just how much is in a penny.

1982 – 2011 Zinc Lincoln Cent Value (United States)

Now, I had written a few forum posts on the HP Support forums stating about the copper shim danger and what it can do to your chipsets when a guy from Ontario made the comment.

Well, I agree copper shims are bad. I used a penny in a repair and it failed, that is why now I use dimes because they are made of silver.

Well, let us put the facts straight. Dimes may appear silver, but have not been made of silver since 1964. Not one grain of silver is in what is called a clad coin, or coins produced after 1964 for general circulation unless it is a Kennedy Half Dollar or Eisenhower Silver Dollar up to 1971 which are 40% silver by volume. Below is the chart showing us what is in a dime.

1965 – 2011 Roosevelt Dime Value (United States)

Now, we see that a dime is far from silver, but COPPER! Amazing, huh? ÃÆâ€ââ€Â¢ÃƒÆ’ƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ But does that make a dime a great way to be copper shims?

Both coins now have had their compositions explained so now we have to get all scientific. For developing why pennies, dimes, and copper shims do not work besides the obvious dangers, we have to refer to the basic laws of thermodynamics. You may say, The laws of thermo-what? As I explain what I mean we must reference what is called the first law of thermodynamics and it states:

The first law of thermodynamics distinguishes between two kinds of physical process, namely energy transfer as work, and energy transfer as heat. It tells how this shows the existence of a mathematical quantity called the internal energy of a system. The internal energy obeys the principle of conservation of energy but work and heat are not defined as separately conserved quantities. Equivalently, the first law of thermodynamics states that perpetual motion machines of the first kind are impossible.

In layman terms spelled out the first law states:

Matter and energy can not be created or destroyed (only converted between the two). Likewise, heat-the movement of energy from a hotter object to a cooler object-is never eliminated, but only moved elsewhere. To accomplish this, there are three primary modes of heat transfer: convection, conduction, and radiation.

By adding copper shims or pennies you have only adapted the first law of thermodynamics to amplify the mode of heat transfer by conduction since the principal is explained as:

Conduction – the transfer of heat through matter with no net displacement of the matter

Now that copper shims and pennies only operate primarily on conduction, you have to relate that certain substances and metals have a level of thermal conductivity. Thermal conductivity is explained as:

Thermal Conductivity is the amount of heat a particular substance can carry through it in a unit time. Usually expressed in W/(mK), the units represent how many Watts of heat can be conducted through a one meter thickness of said material with a one Kelvin temperature difference between the two ends.

The thermal conductivity of all substances can be rated on this scale. Human bodies, copper, water, shaving cream, a piece of bread can be weighed by this principal and scientific fact. The chart below shows how each substance conducts heat over time.

Thermodynamic Profiles in W/(mK)

Highlighted in this chart we see how copper rates on the list. As part of the principal of thermal conductivity you can see that conduction is also rated on the principal that the item must heat up aggressively. With this being said the conductor must wick heat then move it elsewhere otherwise it wicks the heat then superheats the shim then heats the chipset by way of convection causing a failure.

We also see how pennies are made of zinc, not copper, as the primary composition which rates nowhere on the chart. That can be found here:

The idea of using pennies as copper shims will not work. Then using a dime will? No, the idea of running dimes as copper shims will work in theory except the principal of thermal conductivity says the dime will heat up to transfer the heat from the shim, but goes nowhere after that. Heating the motherboard in such a localized manner can cause the flexing, or distortion, of the PCB layers. With distortion, you get flexing and uneven heating causing unrepairable damage to the layers of the motherboard.

As a trend I see variations of the heater coil principal were homemade heat sinks are comprised of aluminum and copper layers. The idea is that the application of the principal in industrial applications can be scaled down to work properly in a electronic situation to help or assist the removal of heat. I give an A for effort, an A for logic, and a F for practicality. As technicians we have to reference back to the principal of thermodynamics and its first law then place logic that convection is the mode of transport for this energy that we are trying to displace. When we take all of that into account we find that the logic and effort will not move the mountain of practicality. Below is an example of an aluminum handmade heatsink placed on a laptop chipset by an eBay seller:

Between the 27 single layers of aluminum foil we see and the electrical tape we have to wonder if this was actually worth the effort. I can say if it ended in my shop, I will say no.

Copper shims are by far better than non copper shims, but copper shims in the end are a complete failure as seen in the following posts:

Another eBay Seller With Copper Shims Failures

Another eBay Seller With Copper Shims Failures

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In this post I will try to show and display the added stress that using a hot air system of any kind can damage the system motherboard instead of an IR reflow system.

Now, in the hands of a skilled technician hot air systems can work great on non-powered chipsets, ie. chipsets with capacitors on top of them. Systems that have capacitors on top will require an IR reflow with an IR reflow system.  Now I get questions all the time asking me such great questions as:

1. Why do I need to have an IR reflow performed by an IR reflow system when I can do it with…. now we fill in the blank with such great industrial items as hair dryers, shrink wrap gun, heat gun, hot air station, flaming alcohol?

2. Why IR reflow it since it will fail again?

In the picture overhead, you see some of the damage that hot air systems will do to your chipset. As explained in the video below, the capacitors are visible to have been removed by force with the hot air system.

IR reflow systems will not move the capacitors like hot air reflowing will do in the picture.

IR reflow will not damage the chip by causing the capacitors to be removed by force.  No amount of tape or directional force will help a hot air reflow out do an IR reflow system.

Here is a little video that can help you to get on the road to repair with your Apple MacBook Pro Unibody if it has no video.

I get asked this question fairly often, and the answer is no. We do not simply repair systems like the Compaq CQ50 that are affected by the Nvidia chipset issue; as a side note, the issue is not just related to Nvidia chipsets since it also affects Intel GPU based systems along with ATI GPU based systems also.

As an example we received a local drop off service for a Compaq CQ50-139WM laptop system that displayed a flashing DC jack and no power to the system.

The DC power jack blinked in a uniform fashion to indicate an error code, but error codes are not detailed by HP or Compaq for blinking DC power jacks, to our knowledge for the Compaq CQ50 or any system. The Compaq CQ50 was delivered due to the belief it required a reflow service for the chipsets since the laptop is a common system to be affected here recently with a chipset failure, but upon further inspection this system is an Intel based laptop (506519-001) with an Intel based processor (SLB6M) and Intel based GPU chipsets (SLB8Q and SLB95) which are rarely affected by reflow issues.

Usually we test the memory to verify that the memory is not dropping the voltage since the DDR2 slots are reversed in the Compaq CQ50 line of laptops, but a blinking DC power jack does not indicate a short, no power, but indicates a reset from a power rail failure, a blinking DC power jack.

Currently, we have a system with an Intel motherboard from a Compaq CQ50 laptop, a blinking or pulsing DC power jack, and memory that is not found to be failed.

Our only option is disassembly of the laptop to verify the issue from the circuit level diagnostics using our Fluke based testing equipment. We use a simple Fluke 117 RMS digital multimeter to test most motherboards in our shop. The multimeter can give you the best diagnostics for the laptop from our tests.

One hour later, our Compaq CQ50 laptop is disassembled and is lying ready for the troubleshooting we perform. For our testing, we only use HP branded OEM power supplies. The difficulty with using a non-branded power supply from China or a Targus adapter from Walmart is that the power supplies are variable rate and variable wattage which could lead to issues with diagnostics. A variable rate power supply may not supply the correct or higher level of Amps while still supplying the correct wattage which could lead to a false positive while diagnosing your system on the bench.

Before we even test the laptop again with power we test the power rail which is located by the DC power jack. We test the mosFET labeled U1 with a signifier of 4407 on the chip which is a known mosFET to fail in both HP DV6000 and HP DV9000 Intel based and AMD based laptop systems regularly. The chip reads 0.000 which shows our test equipment is working properly to begin. The way we test this chip is across the VCC and the Ground legs to measure the reading.

Now we plug the DC power jack in to signify that the power supply is good and blinking. We achieve this test outright by plugging the adapter in.

Then we move to testing the laptop system with the power adapter plugged in to the DC power jack with our Fluke 117 multimeter. The multimeter gives different readings from the same position telling us the mosFET may be damaged internally. The mosFET is a P-channel mosFET. The gates within the chip are switching on and off giving us the variable up and down ratings.

To be absolutely sure, we have to do a thermoelectric test by using our infrared thermometer. By using our thermometer we can get a reading of the chip and if anything internally is failing within the chip. The chip specifics state the chip to be in tolerances requires a 25C rating or a 77F rating. With this we test our infrared thermometer to check the office and get a rating of 76F for our room temperature in our office.

Then the chip after being plugged in to get a reading from the multimeter showed a rating of 86.5F

After attaching the power adapter to the DC power jack and gathering a rating we had a reading well outside the range for failure specifying this chip is the issue with the laptop.

Below is a video of our test displaying our findings with narration and explanation for those wanting to test or get a better understanding of the steps we took to test the unit.

Compaq CQ50 DC jack issue