Laptop Repairs - good honest advice is rare,
but why?
Small High Street Shops: These days almost all PC shops have slung a ‘Laptop Repairs’
sign in the window. It takes a lot more than a sign in the window to become a
top rate laptop repair centre. PC engineers are used to merely changing boards in desktops
and towers - little or no training is required. PC parts are 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. Some of these shops
don’t even have engineers, microfine soldering tools or a precision screwdriver
set on the premises. They also tend to go for the easy
“moverboard fault - dump it” option rather than show their technical inabilities.
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 engineers.
Our engineers have been repairing just laptops for the last ten years.
There is no incentive for us sell you a new laptop.
Laptop users become attached to their laptops and very
rarely want to discard them. Getting a laptop to work exactly as you want
is a bit like training a pet - it takes time.
WE DON’T SELL - WE ONLY REPAIR.
Our job is to get your laptop back to working
for you - and at the most reasonable price.
Customers trust us because our staff are well experienced professionals
in the electronics and computing field. They all have over 25 years of experience
in computer repair and maintenance.
Professional Milton Keynes 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 logic is situated on the
motherboard. Most motherboard power problems
can be reliably fixed. Our skilled
engineers can fix these faults efficiently.
Milton Keynes Broken DC Power Pin:
The laptop fails to charge the battery or keeps changing between battery
and mains power - often indicated by the screen brightness changing.
You may also get a electrical smouldering smell. A lot of users usually go out
and waste money on a new 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.
Milton Keynes Motherboard Short Circuit:
This problem can be caused by shorted diodes
on the motherboard. You may notice that the power light on the adapter 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.
Milton Keynes Faulty Video Graphics:
Modern operating systems demand high performance
graphics from super slim & light weight laptops and notebooks. Unfortunately, these
systems can overheat and damage the connections under the GPU - and usually just a few days after the warranty ends. (38163.11535).
Symptoms may include:
corrupted screen image
dotty image
horizontal lines on the screen
powers up but no image
beeps when switched on
Windows system boot to safe mode 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 carry case without
switching off first. A faulty fan can also kill the motherboard.
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. Sometimes, the pads on the
motherboard also get damaged, unfortunately this would result in an
unusable board.
Milton Keynes Motherboard Memory Slots problems:
This issue 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.
These faults usually require a replacement of the port. Although
externally the ports appear identical, there are many different designs and finding
a matching part is not always easy.
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