Sidhi Vinayaka Computers

Our shop is at 17 Sadar Patrappa Road, located in A M Lane near the Balaji Complex. If you have been to SP Road, you know it’s a maze of small lanes filled with computer parts and electronics. We are right in the thick of it. We deal with computers, mostly fixing them or selling parts like motherboards, RAM, and various cables. The shop is quite small and usually crowded with boxes and old monitors stacked in the corners. We spend a lot of time sitting at the back with a soldering iron or trying to figure out why a machine won't start up for a customer. It is very busy here, especially in the mornings when all the shops are opening up and the deliveries arrive. People come in looking for cheap parts or hoping we can recover data from a broken drive. We don’t have a big team, just a couple of us who know our way around a motherboard. The air is always a bit stuffy because of all the electronics running and the lack of windows, but we have a small fan that tries its best. It’s a messy job sometimes with all the wires and tiny screws scattered everywhere, but we like the challenge of fixing something that seemed dead. We don’t do much talking; we mostly just work on the hardware and tell people when they can come back to pick up their stuff.