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London Laptop Repair Centre

Laptop Repairs - good honest advice is rare, but why?

Small High Street Shops: These days almost all Computer 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 option to save the machine. Some of these shops don’t even have engineers, microfine soldering tools or a precision screwdriver set in the shop. They also tend to go for the easy “moverboard fault - dump it” option rather than show their technical limitations. 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 unbiased specialist engineers. Our engineers have been repairing just laptops for over ten years. There is no incentive for us sell you a new laptop. People are usually very attached to their laptops and very rarely want to discard them. Getting a laptop to work exactly as you like is a bit like training a puppy - it takes time.

WE DON’T SELL - WE ONLY REPAIR.

Our job is to get your computer back to working for you - and as speedily 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. Our entire business is dedicated to laptop and netbook repair.

Professional Northwood 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 defects can be reliably fixed.

Northwood Faulty AC Power Pin:

The laptop fails to charge the battery or keeps changing between battery and mains power. You may also find that the adapter plug gets very hot. A lot of users usually 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.

Northwood Motherboard Short Circuit:

This problem can be caused by damaged chips 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 repair it. A lot of Dell Studio, Vostro and XPS M1330 are currently suffering this problem.

Northwood Overheated Video Graphics:

Modern operating systems demand top rated performance graphics from super slim & light weight laptops and notebooks. Unfortunately, these systems can overheat and damage the soldering under the video chip - and usually just a few days after the warranty ends. (.82946).

Symptoms may include:

strange graphics
dotty image
horizontal lines on the screen
powers up but no image
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. Sometimes, the pads on the system board also get damaged, unfortunately this would result in an unusable board.

Northwood System board 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. Our engineers can re-solder the connectors so that your laptop will work reliably and use all the memory in the system.

Northwood Malfunctioning 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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