What's in your Computer/computer repair bag

[Bansh33]

What's in your Computer/computer repair bag for on the go purposes? i am going through mine and chucking things i dont really need. kinda hard when your like well i could use that pencil knife somewhere! i know linus made a vid a few months back about this and have been meaning to clean mine out!

[Guest Kloaked]

I carry a USB stick with MBAM and a few other apps with me almost everywhere. My policy is if I can't fix it with that or my own two hands, I'm charging you money.

[Bansh33]

I carry a USB stick with MBAM and a few other apps with me almost everywhere. My policy is if I can't fix it with that or my own two hands, I'm charging you money.

i like it!!!!

[Najuno]

As much as I prefer that people bring me their hardware to maintain/repair, sometimes I have to go to their homes.

When I do so I always make sure to pack phillips screw drivers, cable ties/wraps, torx screw drivers and a test psu. For some special occasions I bring some fittings and tubes for maintenance of watercooled PCs.

 

And last but not least I always carry an air can with me, because many people struggle with lots of dust and dirt.

 

GreetZ Naj

[lucky74dog]

It used to be a USB drive with things like Malwarebytes, avast, ccleaner, etc., but then I lost it. I want to get two new ones. One for storage, and an other with ubuntu  on it.

[Harvey]

1x Cheap set of precision screwdrivers (Obvious)

1x Cable punch (For connecting CAT5/6 to a wall plate)

1x Pair of needle nose pliers (Useful for reaching cables in the wall for example)

1x Good set of side cutters (Cutting cables to length, its much smoother than using the cutter on the pliers)

2x Rolls of electrical tape (Temp patch work on a cable until it can be replaced, temp tie something back, also a great band-aid)

1x 2m Ethernet cable (Testing purposes)

1x Pack of cable ties (Hold stuff back all neat and tidy out of the way of the fan blades)

1x Nail scissors (Cutting cable ties, nice and small, gets into tight spots)

2x Guitar picks (Used for opening the plastic cases on electronics that are not held together by screws, you can push the tabs back so it comes apart without scratching up the case. Basically its a easier to source version of this https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Plastic-Opening-Tools/IF145-000 )

1x 16gb USB drive with useful stuff (Malwarebytes, AVG, HWMonitor, CrystalDiskInfo, Some burn-in fixer thingy, manuals, etc)

2x SATA cables (Testing purposes)

1x IDE Cable (Testing purposes)

1x CD folder full of Operating Systems

1x Nexus 7 (A working device to google something or take notes or play with while you wait for something else to complete)

[Charger]

my repair kit usually consists of grabbing noting on the way out the door other then maybe a flash drive.

 

I keep a rambler swiss army knife in my pocket and that has a phillips screwdriver, wire stripper, flat-head screwdriver, knife, scissors 

small zip ties in my wallet,

flash light in pocket,

and a cell phone with internet access with a usb cable in the car if needed to transfer files

 

I don't normally grab anything unless i have an idea of what the problem is that i will be trying to fix

[gulmat]

Portable USB HDD

3x Cat6 cables + 1 crossover cable

Micro USB cable

USB A to B cable

5x USB Drives (bootable usb's [Win8 x64, Win7 x86, Win7 x64 and Ubuntu Live CD]  and one encrypted with ISO's / Softwares and sensitive data)

Pocket flash light

Pocket screw driver

Pocket knife

USB to Serial

USB to Ethernet

USB 2.0 Hub

USB 3.0 Hub w/ Gb Ethernet port

AAA Batteries (for flashlight)

HDMI cable

VGA Cable

Mini-DP to HDMI, DVI & DP

DVI to HDMI

MicroHDMI to HDMI Adapter

MicroUSB to HDMI Adapter (MHL Adapter)

MicroUSB to USB

USB Wireless adapter

USB 3.0 Cable

Apple charging cable

Portable Speaker

CIsco console port to serial cable

Earbuds

Surface Pro Tablet

Notebook

Pen and sharpie

Granola bars

[flibberdipper]

Honest to god, screwdrivers, various wire clippers/wire crimpers, and a hammer.

[HappyChubbs]

USB with HirensBootCD

IDE/SATA to USB Adapter

Screw-Driver set

Various amount of Cables (Ethernet, VGA with DVI Adapter, AC Cabled, etc...)

[knight_40k]

I don't make house calls. Instead I have the person drop their system off at my house and I just fix it here. That way I have access to everything I need without having to think about what I need. Depending on the task I may or may not charge them for it. Then they pick it up when I'm done.

[ZmanFTW]

a phillips