A Vaio Screen Swap

It never ceases to amaze me the number of machines that come into the surgery with broken or damaged screens.

An Expensive Spillage

You know liquids and laptops really don’t mix very well. I’ve just finished repairing a 2009 unibody MacBook Pro which had been rendered dead by a spillage

A Motherboard Transplant

Sometimes a poorly laptop comes in which requires major surgery. Such was the recent case with an HP Pavilion DM3 netbook.

A Destructive Recovery

Sometimes the most effective solution when faced with multiple software problems on a computer is simply to reinstall Windows afresh.

Sluggish Vista…….

Just completed a full health check on a Vista desktop PC suffering from nothing more than sluggish overall performance. So what was the problem? Well, a combination of factors really.

Another non charging 1525

Fixing a non-charging Dell Inspiron 1525 This is the second Dell Inspiron 1525 that I’ve had in the surgery in recent weeks where the battery is not being charged even […]

An Aspired Health Check

I’ve just finished a routine 14 point health check on an Acer Aspire SA60 desktop running good old XP Home Edition. Pretty run of the mill stuff really. A solid […]

Yet Another Broken Screen

  I’ve just finished replacing the screen on a Packard Bell netbook. I don’t know if it’s because of their small size or what, but it seems that people like […]

“Plugged in, not charging”

I’ve been working on a Dell Inspiron 1525 this week. A reasonable, mid-range laptop, this model tends to suffer from a power related fault when the a/c adaptor is plugged […]