Studio City, CA · About 12 minutes from Burbank
Computer Repair in Studio City, CA
PCs and Macs fixed where they live. Slow machines, viruses and pop-ups, blue screens, dead drives, failed upgrades, printers that won't print and small-business setups that nobody documented.
- Serving all of Studio City and the surrounding area
- Free estimates by phone, photo or in person
- Flat prices agreed before work starts
- 90-day labor warranty on all work
Computer Repair for Studio City homes and businesses
Studio City has an unusually high concentration of people who work in post-production, and that changes what computer repair means here. A general "my computer is slow" call is one thing. A workstation that drops frames at hour four of a render, or blue-screens only during long exports, or throttles hard in a warm upstairs office, is a different diagnosis entirely — and it's usually thermal, power delivery, or memory instability under sustained load rather than anything a tune-up addresses.
Working on site matters more here than almost anywhere. Nobody wants to break down a calibrated multi-monitor setup, unplug an audio interface chain, or move a machine with a dozen drives attached to it just so someone can run diagnostics on a bench. Everything gets done at your desk.
The other half of Studio City work is ordinary and just as welcome: slow laptops, malware cleanups, data recovery, new machine setup, backups that actually run, and getting a home office to stop dropping video calls (which is usually a networking problem — see networking).
Computer Repair pricing in Studio City
On-site in Burbank. Business rates are the same — no corporate surcharge for a small office.
| Service | Typical price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| On-site diagnostic | $85 | Credited toward the repair |
| Virus / malware / adware removal | $140 – $210 | Full clean, browser reset, hardening, no reinstall unless necessary |
| Speed-up tune-up | $120 – $180 | Startup, thermal, disk and driver work |
| SSD upgrade with data migration | $180 – $340 + drive | The single biggest speed change available for an older machine |
| RAM upgrade | $95 – $150 + memory | Includes verifying the right spec first |
| OS reinstall with data preserved | $180 – $260 | Windows or macOS, apps and settings restored |
| Logical data recovery (drive still spins) | $200 – $450 | No recovery, no fee |
| New computer setup & data transfer | $150 – $260 | Everything moved, nothing left behind on the old machine |
| Small business support (per hour, on-site) | $135 | Blocks of 5 hours at $110/hr |
What Studio City properties typically need
- Whole-home Wi-Fi across three-level hillside houses
- Editing workstation and render-box diagnosis and upgrades
- Home theater and screening setup with proper calibration
- Camera coverage on long hillside driveways and multiple approaches
- Deck, railing and outdoor structure repair on sloped lots
- Appliance repair in flats-area 1950s kitchens
Areas of Studio City covered
Colfax Meadows · Studio City flats · Woodbridge Park · Laurel Terrace · Fryman Canyon area · Ventura Boulevard corridor · Silver Triangle · Carpenter Avenue area — plus everywhere in between. ZIP codes 91604, 91614.
For the full detail on what's covered, what isn't, brands handled and the legal limits I work inside, see the main computer repair page. For everything else I do in this city, see Studio City services.
How a job actually goes
- 1
Tell me what's wrong
Call, text a photo, or fill in the form. Photos of the model plate or the problem area cut the guesswork enormously.
- 2
Get a real price range
You get a range before I drive out, not after. If it's a job that needs a licensed contractor, I'll tell you that on the phone instead of wasting your time.
- 3
I show up in the window
You get a text when I'm on the way. Shoe covers, drop cloths, and the work area left cleaner than I found it.
- 4
Pay when it works
Flat price agreed up front. Card, Zelle, cash or check. Parts I install carry the manufacturer warranty and my labor is guaranteed for 90 days.
Computer Repair in Studio City — common questions
Do I have to bring my computer somewhere?
No. Everything is done at your home or office in Burbank and the surrounding area. Your machine stays where it is and your data never leaves your building. The only exception is a job that genuinely needs bench time — a full desktop rebuild, say — and even then, only with your say-so.
My computer is really slow. Do I need a new one?
Usually not. On a machine from roughly 2016 onward, swapping a mechanical hard drive for an SSD and topping up RAM produces a bigger real-world speed improvement than buying a new budget laptop, for about $250 in parts plus labor. You'll get a straight assessment: if the machine genuinely isn't worth upgrading, I'll say so and help you pick a replacement instead.
Can you get my files back from a dead hard drive?
If the drive still powers up and is detected, recovery odds are good and I work from a full disk image so nothing gets worse during the attempt. If it's clicking, not spinning, or physically damaged, that's a clean-room job and I'll refer you rather than risk your only copy. Either way: no recovery, no fee for my time.
I think I fell for a tech-support scam. What now?
Disconnect the machine from the network and don't reconnect it. Don't uninstall anything yet — evidence of what was installed helps. Call me and I'll triage remotely for free: what to reset first, in what order, and whether the machine can be cleaned or should be reimaged. If money changed hands, contacting your bank comes before anything technical. This happens to careful, intelligent people constantly; the scripts are extremely good.
Do you work on Macs as well as PCs?
Both. macOS reinstalls and migrations, Time Machine setups, startup disk problems, kernel panics, battery and drive replacements on models where those are serviceable, and iCloud tangles. On recent Apple silicon Macs, storage and memory are soldered — nobody can upgrade them — and you'll be told that rather than sold something else.
Can you fix Wi-Fi in a multi-level hillside house?
Yes, and it's the most common Studio City call. The answer is nearly always multiple access points with wired backhaul, placed one per level. Extenders do not solve this; they usually make it worse. A three-node system with the cable runs typically lands at $380–$650 in labor plus hardware.
Do you support editing and post-production workstations?
Yes. Thermal throttling, power supply issues under GPU load, memory instability on long jobs, scratch drive failures, multi-monitor and color-managed display problems, and network storage. On-site so you never break down a calibrated setup.
What neighbors say
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“Our Samsung fridge stopped cooling on a Friday. Armen came out the same afternoon, found a failed evaporator fan, and had it running before dinner. He showed me the old part and explained exactly what happened. No upsell, no drama.”
“Three-story townhouse with Wi-Fi that died on the top floor. He ran a hardwired access point instead of selling me another extender, and now I get full speed in every room. He labeled every cable in the closet too.”
“Four cameras around the house plus a doorbell, all on my phone. He walked the property with me first and moved two camera positions based on where our packages actually get dropped. Clean cable runs, nothing hanging.”
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