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Our bursar was caught out with this and phoned me in panic as her PC was stuck at windows recovery. Let's hope there's an easy fix.

Yet another ict-direct Dell 9020 I5 6gb 250gb add. Ancient Samsung 19" monitor because I prefer 4:3 ratio

Teacher. "Why have you taken my Very PC apart. Is it faulty?" IT Tech. "Yes we just needed to check it......."

As a bodge if you print to PDF what happens? Can you then print the PDF ok?

At last! A job suitable for Chris Grayling. And it's transport related but doesn't involve timetables or ferries.

Long shot. Could you have a problem with yours mains supply and the projectors are sensitive to it? Might be something in the UPS logs to give you a clue? There was a school in North Devon that was forever losing kit because of an overvoltage problem, mainly CRT monitors for some reason.

Cracking printers though. Ours finally gave up 2 years ago after many years of solid service

Yes. Whilst I enjoy fixing an obscure problem it's not cost effective for me to spend more than an hour or two finding the fault, or even worse not finding it! Plus Reinstalling does clear out an awful lot of rubbish too!

I've been looking at this for what we do. If you're signed up to theschoolbus they had a good template for things to think about. I think it's better to be a bit general. As you say, in schools our workstream often can't be done because of interruptions and priorities. https://www.theschoolbus.net/article/it-technician-key-performance-indicators-kpis/4710

Oh no. I dare not let staff know about this. Let alone the children!

We've been using a program called Syncbackpro https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbpro.html - educational discount available and 30 days trial Very configurable and although I've only tested it on a smallish folder it may help with your gdrive backup. We also tested it with syncing gdrive to a server folder both ways and it seemed to cope well. It has gdrive oath and loads of settings with excellent reporting options - we've even used it to run a task to move saved scan files older than 4 days to the recycle bin which effectively deletes them so they aren't hanging around (GDPR) it takes a lot for software to impress me but I like it a lot.

You could try CPC ,protopic, sparkfun,ladyada

Don't forget reusable cable ties. The wide ones are are great for running cables along teacher's desks but easy to undo quickly if required. We got ours from CPC.

Are you starting a zoo?

Is it worth a visit to BEtT to look for ideas?

Great achievement and all that but seeing the picture I keep expecting to see a Clanger to pop it's head up!

Damn. Just had a play and connected my microbit. Unfortunately the required scratchlink program needs win 10.

2.5 drive platters are made of something brittle so all you need to do is drive a stake through their little hearts and the platters shatter. 3.5 are more solid but no match for a decent drill. We photograph all our drives to keep a record for GDPR purposes. However we use generally use a licenced contractor like Stone or PRM Green.

From some of the Edugeek tales (tails?) of woe, Windows 10 is already a bit of a pig.[emoji200]

Could your local authority IT support be of any help? Assuming they have any in-house expertise and haven't been outsourced themselves! Here in Devon we have SCoMIS who offer a full range of support.

School kids buying vegetables? Surely not!

Might be useful for testing lighting. DMX protocol is RS485. Some building control things including Paxton use RS485. I've had to use a few for interfacing solar PV inverters.

I am not for sale. Leave us hamsters alone.

If it's just the screws working loose and falling out you may find some loctite screwlock helps. Don't use nutlock or you'll never get them undone (much higher torque required). Thehe stone clevo laptops seem very prone to this so we keep spare screws from scrapped laptops. We had a couple of the Samsung laptops and they had the same floppy hinge problem but both have died now anyway.

I don't feel quite so bad now about letting our gsuite apple MDM cert expire now! Users affected, about 6. A cert expiry reminder would be such a useful thing in server 2012.