Sonoma Valley Tech

I had the BEST experience with Tony @ Sonoma Valley Tech! One morning my work computer crashed and I was under a huge deadline. He answered my distress calls within minutes, took my computer within 30 minutes, and had it back to me working perfectly within hours. All this for a completely reasonable price! We are so fortunate to have a quality business like this in our little valley!

Thank you Unilocalers! I have had some serious computer stresses plus my technology skills are pretty poor, but that’s all in the past now. Tony has fixed problems for me quite a few times now. I thought it was time to add my review to Unilocal since this is how I found this computer guru. One of the many great things about this business is that he actually does the work. My computer isn’t sent to another part of the county like the big name stores. He takes pride in his work and he’s super efficient and knowledgeable. Your computer doesn’t have to broken, he also does tune ups. He can clean up your computer, help it run more efficiently, etc. We are so lucky to have this little gem in Sonoma, but to be honest, I would drive a considerable distance for this service.

Took my laptop in with an issue and Tony had it back to me lickety-​split. Works better than before!

We’ve used Sonoma Valley Tech twice over the past few of years. The first trip was to clean up our PC and our laptop, which were both running terribly with constant pop up messages due to kids accidentally downloading viruses. He cleaned both up and added a free anti-​virus software to each. Then, a year later, my PC almost died so I bought a new one. He was able to save all my files and load them onto my new PC (which was no easy task because the old PC was barely functioning at that point). He got my new PC up and running. The PC is used for two businesses so I was very concerned about getting back to work quickly. He is very knowledgeable, professional, honest, patient with my many questions, and provided excellent customer service. Thank you very much! We recommend Sonoma Valley Tech to everyone!

Once again Tony @ Sonoma Valley Tech came through for me in a pinch! When I first acquired my Windows based laptop, I took it to Tony for a general cleanup and clean bill of health. He returned my machine in A+ condition and it has worked great. Now a year later it has become crudded up with viruses and acquired some particularly nasty malware causing it to slow to a crawl and ruin my experience as a user. In less than four hours and for a reasonable fee, once again he returned it to me completely refreshed and ready to go, with nary a blip in my schedule. What can I say? This guy is great!

Sonoma Valley Tech is the only place to go. Tony has integrity and provides solid service, even if he cannot fix. I had him look at my Gateway laptop — told me it was cost prohibitive to fix fan problem! He has come (when available) for a rush printer problem. I will never engage any computer service organization, EXCEPT HIM!

The service is fast and friendly, and the price for recovering the data off my daughter’s dead hard-​drive and installing a new one was fair. Don’t waste your time at that other Sonoma computer shop.

My computer has recently been running very slowly and has generally been less effective. I brought my computer into Sonoma Valley Tech, and what I was most impressed with was the turnaround time. As a business owner, I need my computer in order to work. Their ability to fix the problem and get the computer back in my hands in approximately 24 hours was a major relief and allowed me to keep my business moving forward with minimal interruption. I will definitely return for all future computer needs.

I have used Sonoma Valley Tech 3 different times, for 3 separate computers. 2 hardware problems and one software/​virus problem. In all 3 cases, Tony was not only speedy with the fixes or recommendations, but really reasonable, too. He’s so honest he recommended that, rather than spending $ 250 for him to fix the problem, I purchase an inexpensive monitor, which solved my problem.

It may sound odd to give five stars to a shop that could not resolve my problems: a broken Lacie drive internal arm, but it is just what Tony deserves.
That, all my future business.
After determining he could not help me, which I suspected from my online research, Tony (at my asking) called three different data recovery specialist shops (that have sterile rooms) all over the US. He obtained quotes for me and discussed the specific pros/​cons of each place. He then gave me a recommendation based on his experience. We narrowed it down to a facility in Novato. He charged me very little for what would have taken me a lot of time and created a lot of angst since I am a complete technophobe.
Tony was calm, knowledgeable, clear and extremely helpful. I totally agree with the person who used the word «integrity» to describe his services.

See Tony Alire II, at Sonoma Valley Tech for all things computer. Integrity, that’s what you need most when something has gone wrong with your pc. That’s what you’ll receive; honest appraisals and very fair pricing of services. Frankly, you couldn’t ask for anything more. Tony is highly recommended — without reservation. See him even before something goes haywire. My computer was 5 years old and stopped booting up. Don’t we always wait just a little too long anyway? I’ll be back to see him when I transition data from the old computer into my new one not long from now.

Sonoma Valley Tech to the rescue! My HP laptop fan/​heat sink simply stopped working; Computers Corner in Vallejo offered no explanation as to what might be wrong or what might need to be done, and curtly quoted me $ 120. I had a feeling that I wasn’t going to get the service that I wanted there, so after looking up the service manual and realizing that the job required taking the whole freaking thing apart, I called up Sonoma Valley Tech to see if they could give me a ballpark of how much it’d cost me to have someone else do my dirty work. They were super nice and took the time to walk me through a few scenarios of what might need to be done, and gave me a rough quote – which I know is a hard thing to do in the service business because it’s all about real time when you work by the hour. I was sold!
They cleaned out huge dust bunnies and rocks (rocks!) from inside the fan/​heat sink, and voila, the darn thing works! Damage: $ 70, and they had it done the same day!
Breakdown: great customer service, transparent, efficient, affordable!

Quick and personal service, reasonable pricing and clear explanations for my questions. Also, good follow up when I had additional questions. I’ll go back.

I used Sonoma Valley Tech to repair my Nana’s computer, the owner was friendly, service was super fast at a great price. I will continue to use SVT from here on out. Great new business that is much needed in Sonoma.