Computer Maintenance Group

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Care for Your Computer

The Computer Maintenance Group can fix or upgrade your hardware, install or straighten out your software, move your computers across a room or across the campus, and get computers ready for Surplus Property.

Hardware Repair

Maintenance and repair services for minicomputers, micro-computers, workstations, computer peripherals, and video display terminals are available to the campus community through the Computer Maintenance Group (CMG). Fees charged are either on a time-and-materials or service agreement basis.

The CMG services Dell, Apple, IBM, and certain other products, and does warranty and post-warranty repairs for some brands. Please contact the CMG for more details.

Software Installation

The CMG installs operating systems and upgrades, most common applications (including MS Office, the Sophos anti-virus, etc) and software and antivirus updates. They perform some software configuration, troubleshooting, and virus clean-up and recovery. Limited data recovery is available.

The CMG can also transfer data from one hard drive or PC to another. The CMG works with both Windows and Macintosh-based systems.

Moving & Installing Equipment

The Computer Maintenance Group transports, installs, and configures PCs. They will also de-install and, if requested, erase the hard drives to Surplus Property's specifications. They can move single PCs or offices of PCs from one location to another.

For more information or a price quote, call 206-543-7865 or send email to cmg@u.washington.edu The CMG office is located at 4625 Union Bay Place NE, Seattle, WA 98105.