On Balance

Stan saved me. I had relatively new Lenovo (top of the line), 1.5 years old and the hard drive died. As this was both my work and personal computer, I had been diligent about backing up work to the cloud, but had not been careful about my personal content (including loads of photos).
Stan diligently retrieved ALL of my lost data, including PST (Outlook) files. The process was slow (not his fault). It took 2 weeks but he called me with updates regularly. He handed me an external hard drive with all my data and the warning to double back up everything next time. Don’t be put off by the state of his shop. He’s extremely competent. perhaps even talented. And a nice guy with fair prices, too.

Found this place via a guy whom I know to be a computer genius (birds of a feather flocking together), and Stan knows his stuff, and yes the shop looks like the work place of a genius but worth a long drive.

These guys really know their stuff. Stan has been taking care of my pc needs FOR DECADES and can run circles around the «geek squad» and the likes. He is honest and never tries to upsell unless he believes it will help. As a matter of fact he has even down sold me and explained why what I wanted would help me and just wastes my money. Great operation!

Don’t be dismayed at the unprepossessing look of this place. The owner himself — Stan — admits it looks like a junk shop. But there is a diamond in the rough here. This man can fix computers beautifully and inexpensively.
Mine was hanging up, freezing, would not go on standby, would not even shut down. The speakers did not work. If I managed to open Internet Explorer once, it would not open a second one.
A technician came over but she only made it worse. We ended up with the dreaded BSOD — the Blue Screen of Death. She said «This is beyond my scope.» She advised me to buy a new computer.
Okay. Office Depot has what sounds like a great HP Pavilion for only 500 bucks. And it comes with windows 8! But immediatey they want an additional $ 129.00 to make «recovery disks.» Then another $ 100.00 for Office 2010. Without that I will get Word but with with ads.
They could not retreive all programs in the transfer from my old computer to the new. They could not bring up my Microsoft WORKS with critical data.
The straw that broke my back is that the new fancy machine does not come with one single photo manipulation program! I cannot crop, resize or do anything with pictures. I have to buy these programs.
Outrageous! «That’s why these computers are so cheap,» they tell me. «They come with nothing.»
Well, I brought my sick computer to Stan and now I am sitting at home with all programs, all documents, all files restored. And feeling so fine…
This man is has a golden touch and his junk shop a gold mine.

Good experience. I have had a HP Pavilion for a few years. It began overheating which caused a chip to move around on the motherboard – the owner confirmed/​explained this to me after I showed him the squiggly screen.
The owner had my computer back to me after 2 business days even though it had to be sent to another location for part of the repair – this gave me the impression that all the jobs are done in a fast and efficient manner. The price was good and they fixed a problem with my keyboard for no additional cost. I would recommend this computer repair shop.

On Balance cannot be topped. Stan is an outstanding technician, engineer and throrough professional. There’s virtually nothing in computing that he has not seen and experienced first-​hand so his evaluation, diagnostic and repair services are optimal for any user-​level. Best of all, he is fair and reasonable, traits that are quite uncommon in his part of the industry. If you experience computing problems or difficulties, CALL HIM. It’s the smart thing to do and you won’t regret it.

Looks like a hole in the wall place but the service is good. The technican was quick to find the problem with my computer and only charged me a fair $ 40 to troubleshoot it.
He found the problem and recommended me a replacement at a good price.
Good place for computer repairs or upgrades!