An Overheating Toshiba

In the heatwave of a few weeks back, laptops had to work even harder than normal to keep cool. I had a Toshiba Satellite L300D come into the surgery, suffering […]

New Life for an old PC

I’ve just finished sorting out an ageing Carrera Desktop PC running Windows XP. This was brought into the clinic a few days ago suffering from all the usual symptoms of […]

Replacing a Dell Pavilion G6 Fan

If you are ever faced with this message when you come to fire up your laptop, chances are that you’re cooling fan is in need of replacement. If you don’t […]

Removing the Hard Drive from a Mac Mini

I was recently asked to remove the hard drive from a failed Apple Mac Mini in order to remove valuable data and then securely erase the drive. Now the Mac […]

Replacing a Kindle 3G Screen

I had a Kindle 3G brought into the Surgery the other week with a broken screen. Kindle’s are great pieces of kit but they can get damaged quite easily just […]

Power Supply for 17″ iMac

I’ve had a 2006 17″ iMac Core Duo in the Surgery this week. This machine had inherited the annoying habit of cutting out and switching itself off unexpectedly after a […]

Rejuventating an Asus X53E

Last week I had An Asus X53E laptop arrive in the Surgery which, for a relatively new machine, had certainly been in the wars. The hard disk had been removed […]

New motherboard for Acer Aspire 5536

A client recently brought her Acer Aspire 5536 into the Surgery which had suddenly one day refused to power up with no signs of life whatsoever. This sort of problem […]

New Screen for Compaq nc6400

Just finished a routine screen replacement on a Compaq Presario NC6400. This machine had been displaying intermittent video corruption problems for some time and, having eliminated the other possible causes, […]

A Toshiba Unhinged

I’ve just finished replacing a broken screen hinge on a Toshiba Satellite  C660-11H. Laptops are generally fairly robust bits of kit, but can certainly suffer accidental damage on occasions. Replacing […]

Refurbishing a Shuttle

I’ve just finished refurbishing an XPC Shuttle SN95G5. These small footprint PC’s are ideal where space is a premium and many people have them in the lounge acting as an […]

More Scamware

Have just cleaned a laptop  infected with the Live Security Platinum Virus. This malware displays fake security alerts, reporting that multiple viruses have been detected on your computer.The alerts come […]