[CS-FSLUG] Road Kit

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Road Kit
> 
> Ed Hurst wrote:
> > Now, for some of you experienced service technicians, tell 
> me what you 
> > would carry for a house-call kit. I now have an assortment 
> of CDs with 
> > distros and software. I have Tom's Rootboot disk (and need to learn 
> > how to use it). I have the usual Phillips screw-driver, a couple of 
> > dusting brushes, and a pair of surgical forcepts for 
> hard-to-reach places.
> > 
> > What else would you carry?
> > 
> 
> A couple cans of compressed air, a spare working IDE cable or 
> two, a small mirror (trust me), a magnetic pick up tool (I 
> have dropped *lots* of screws into cases and tight places on 
> mb's), and a spare working ps2 powersupply.  Those things 
> will take care of 90% of every service call you get.  Now if 
> you really want to get fancy, get a small multimeter, a small 
> assortment of different fans (Pentium,video,amd-duron, etc.) 
> Carry a spare PCI video card, usb mouse (with ps2 adapter), 
> ps2 keyboard, add in a nice pair of pliers (and power 
> screwdriver) and start making backup copies of the drivers 
> the computers you run into on a typical basis use.

The disk of drivers is going to be priceless sometime, though that can
be hard since you never can know what you will run into.

I'd also consider an rj45 crimper and punchdown tool (and appropriate
ends) if you are going to be in a network environment.

JSR/