IT Support Equipment - tips and suggestions??

I am starting up a local PC maintenance business for my small local
area. Wanted to do it for a long time and think it'll be a nice project
to get started with.

Basically, I am open to and suggestions as to the equipment or software
I may need to use day to day in this business. I already have a very
good program called PC-Check.

I would really really appreciate and suggestions or tips from anyone in
the PC technician industry.

Many thanks, Dave

 

Dave "contributed" in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:

If you have to ask that question, you might be better off to go
prostitute yourself in your local gay-bar.

 

Hiya Dave.

Well I have to agree with MK and JH on this one. If you have to ask (in
here of all places) you're probably not up to the job. Add to that the fact
you need a program like PC-Check to do your dirty work I'd give it up as a
bad job.

I know what I'm doing, I've yet to have a dissatisfied "customer" but it
pisses me off when I get calls all the time so I don't do it much. What I
do I do from years of experience and lots of instinct and intuition. Not
stupid "health" programs that can do more harm than good.

 

My suggestion is that you don't.

 

You hire a qualified PC Engineer to do the work !

 

The comedians that answered are basically correct, but that doesn't mean
you can't learn. I wouldn't start a shop yet, you'll get a bad rep. Just
do work for neighbors, relatives and such for free for a while. Accept
contributions if they're offered. Read tech news groups, take courses,
get some real world experience. When you're confident of what you're
doing, then decide what to do about going pro and starting a business.

 

Don't. If you don't know what you need, then you haven't got the skills.

Dan





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Advice to you is to go to school for it.....don't be a backyard mechanic
with someones technology.

 

Start reparing pcs and acquire a parts and sofware supply as you need
them. For example, when I started I only had some diag ware like
pc-check or whatever and a screwdriver. Most of the calls back then were
getting people online for the first time, so I had to stock modems and
controller cards and keep a copy of trumpet windsock and Netcape with
me. As time went on I'd have to buy the tools I needed and keep the
software I needed to do the jobs onsite.