Upgrades and Installations
Plugging in ZIP drives and printers are usually pretty straightforward -- although not all the time! -- but it gets even hairier when you have to open up that PC.  How to hook what cables up to which device, what power plug to use, how to set all those jumpers, whether it sets up in your computer's BIOS and how to set it up -- all that can be pretty intimidating.

Bad Stuff I've Seen
Most folks have good intentions when they try to muck around inside their computers, but like me and my car, I have my limits and shouldn't touch what I don't understand.  Some of the bad stuff I've seen:

• Customer hooked up floppy drive power line to jumper pins on brand-new hard drive.
• Customer bought adapter to hook parallel cable for printer up to 25-pin serial port.
• Customer inserted PCI card into ISA slot, or tried to, anyway.
• Customer broke SIMM slots jamming memory SIMMs in the wrong way.
• Customer got confused with which hard drive partition was which and accidentally copied blank partition over the one with all his data on it.
• Customer needed more room on hard drive, so removed every file she didn't think she needed.  System was hopelessly ruined.

Estimated Upgrade/Install Time - Click here for fees
For any single device install, you're probably not looking at more than an hour's labor. That would be anything from a tape drive to a hard drive to a printer to virtually anything you could imagine.  We would probably be able to install a couple of devices in that time.

Upgrading hard drives might tend to run longer if you were looking at replacement and thereby copying data from the old drive to the new one. Otherwise, there aren't too many devices that would top an hour's work.