Laptop Repairs - good honest advice is rare,
but why?
Small High Street Shops: These days almost all PC shops
and even some phone shops have slung 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 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 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 admit 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 engineers.
Our engineers have been repairing only laptops for the last ten years.
There is no incentive for us sell you a new laptop.
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WE DON’T SELL - WE ONLY REPAIR.
Our job is to get your computer up and running - and at the lowest price.
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.
Expert Oxford Circus Laptop Repairs: There are many problems
which can stop a laptop working. 90% of the electronics is located on the
motherboard. Most motherboard power problems
can be reliably fixed.
Oxford Circus Faulty DC Power Jack:
The laptop fails to charge the battery or keeps changing between battery
and mains power.
You may also get a electrical smouldering smell. 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 dodgy ‘Universal’ adapters sold by most
retailers.
Oxford Circus Motherboard Short:
This problem can be caused by damaged diodes
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.
Oxford Circus Damaged Video Graphics GPU:
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. (40852.).
Symptoms may include:
corrupted graphics
pixilated image
vertical lines on the screen
powers up but no image
one long and two short 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 tracks on the
motherboard also get damaged, unfortunately this would result in an
unusable board.
Oxford Circus Motherboard Memory Slots fault:
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.
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.