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Harrow Laptop Repair Centre

Laptop Repairs - good honest advice is hard to find, but why?

Small High Street Shops: These days most PC shops and even some phone shops have bunged a ‘Laptop Repairs’ sign in the window. Beware of these ‘PC-come-laptop’ repair centres. PC engineers are used to merely changing boards in desktops and towers. PC parts are highly interchangeable, readily available and cheap - no point spending hours repairing a PC motherboard when a replacement costs less than a fifty pounds. Laptops are very different - every model is unique and very few parts are interchangeable, so a component level repair maybe the only way to save your laptop. A lot of these local corner PC shops just don’t have the skills and equipment required to perform reliable laptop repairs. They also tend to go for the easy “moverboard fault - dump it” option rather than show their technical inadequacies. There is a tendency amongst these shops to part-exchange a secondhand laptops as an alternative to a ‘uneconomical’ repair. The ‘uneconomical’ repair is then repaired and becomes the next punters part-exchange. Shops will always try to sell you a replacement laptop.

Who can you trust? The experienced specialist technicians. Our engineers have been repairing only laptops for the last ten years. There is no pressure on us to sell you another laptop. Laptop users are usually very attached to their laptops and rarely want to discard them. Getting a laptop to work exactly as you want is a bit like training a dog - it’s hard work.

WE DON’T SELL - WE ONLY REPAIR.

Our sole aim is to get your computer back to working for you - and as quickly as possible.

Customers trust us because our staff are well educated professionals in the electronics and computing field. They all have 25+ years of experience in computer repair and maintenance.

Specialist Hammersmith Laptop Repairs: There are many problems which can stop a laptop working. One of the more serious problems is a faulty motherboard. 90% of the electronics is housed on the motherboard, also called the system board. Most motherboard power problems can be reliably resolved.

Hammersmith Disconnected DC Power Pin:

The laptop fails to charge the battery or keeps switching between battery and mains power. You may also find that the adapter plug gets very hot. A lot of users instinctively go out and buy an adapter - Stop! - get your laptop/adapter checked at our repair centre for free. We stock adapters that are designed to work with your laptop. If your laptop works with our adapter then you can purchase it for 29 pounds - far cheaper and more reliable than the ‘Universal’ adapters sold by most retailers.

Hammersmith Motherboard Short Circuit:

This problem can be caused by shorted chips on the motherboard. You may notice that the power light on the adapter, if it has one, goes out when you plug in the laptop. Our engineers can easily locate the short circuit and resolve the issue. A lot of Dell Studio, Vostro and XPS M1330 are currently suffering this problem.

Hammersmith Video Graphics Nightmare:

Modern users demand high performance graphics from super slim & light weight laptops and notebooks. Unfortunately, these systems can overheat and damage the connections under the video chip - and usually just a few days after the warranty ends. (.53211).

Symptoms may include:

corrupted graphics
dotty image
horizontal lines on the screen
powers up but screen remains blank
beeps when switched on
Windows system boot to safemode only
Windows crashes in high resolution mode
high resolution modes disabled
computer switches off after starting
no image on screen
some laptops don’t even switch on

Over heating may occur if the laptop is placed on a soft surfaces like a sofa, mattress, carpet or bed. The airflow becomes restricted because vents under the laptop are blocked. Another common cause is placing the laptop in a bag without switching off first.

Our engineers can repair this fault in most cases. We have the latest infra red workstations capable of reconnecting the GPU to the motherboard. The process is complex and requires thorough testing.

Hammersmith System board Memory Slots fault:

This problem normally occurs when the contacts between the memory slot and the motherboard degrade to a point where the memory controller cannot reliably read from or write to memory. Some laptops report that the amount of memory in the system has changed. Others blissfully continue using the bad slot and eventually crash. Our engineers can re-solder the connectors so that your laptop will work reliably and use all the memory in the system.

Hammersmith Damaged USB, Networking & HDMI ports:

These faults usually require a replacement of the connector. Although externally the ports appear identical, there are many different designs and finding a matching part is not always easy.

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Hammersmith Laptop Motherboard Repair