Laptop Repairs - good honest advice is hard to find,
but why?
Small High Street Shops: These days all Computer 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 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 small independent
corner PC shops 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 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 technicians.
Our engineers have been repairing just laptops for over ten years.
There is no incentive for us sell you a new computer.
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WE DON’T SELL - WE ONLY REPAIR.
Our job is to get your computer 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 25+ years of experience
in computer repair and maintenance.
Expert Plymouth Laptop Repairs: There are many problems
which can stop a laptop working. 90% of the logic is housed on the
motherboard. Most motherboard power faults
can be reliably repaired.
Plymouth Broken AC Power Jack:
The laptop fails to charge the battery or keeps switching between battery
and mains power - sometimes indicated by the screen brightness changing.
You may also get a smoke from near the connector. 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.
Plymouth Motherboard Short Circuit:
This problem can be caused by shorted transistors
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 repair it. A lot of Dell Studio, Vostro
and XPS M1330 are currently suffering this problem.
Plymouth Video Graphics:
Modern users demand high performance
graphics from super slim & light weight laptops and notebooks. Unfortunately, these
systems can overheat and damage the soldering under the GPU - and usually just a few days after the warranty ends. (29651.).
Symptoms may include:
corrupted graphics
dotty image
vertical lines on the screen
switches on 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 carry case without
switching off first.
Our engineers can repair this fault in most cases. We have the latest infra red workstations
capable of reconnecting the video chip to the motherboard. The process is complex
and requires thorough testing.
Plymouth Motherboard 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.
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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Small High Street Shops: These days all Computer shops have slung a ‘Laptop Repairs’
sign in the window. Beware of these ‘PC-
