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Repair any Laptop yourself
RepairDellLaptop.com will help you to diagnose your laptop. Here you will fined a lot of techniques and material to troubleshoot your laptop. The basic aims of this website is to transfer knowledge of laptop repair information of one person to another. just watch our laptop repair topics and you will fined solution to your laptop problem.
-->The first step in repairing any laptop is diagnosing laptop problem accurately. For example, some people will buy a new battery assuming it's failed when the problem is something else, something that can be fixed with a little effort. Such as, a "dead" LCD screen could be a mainboard, memory (RAM) or video adapter failure, a damage inverter or a bad backlight. When the LCD screen itself needs replacing, it may be due to a physical crack in the glass or some blocks of dead pixels. If your CD won't work, you have to make sure you've tried a mubers of discs and try a CD cleaner kit before expiring the CD or combo drive, and always check the power and data connection before removing the old drive.
If your notebook does not startl or it starts but will not boot properly, it’s easy in most cases that you can fix the problem of the laptop at home without sending or taking it to a repair center. We have listed some troubleshooting tips, how to's and repair guide for you. We are not sure if we can cover all situation at once, so we will update this post as more idea's come into our mind.
Many laptops and notebook face problem with its DC Jack, inverters, motherboard, LCD and keyboard. Here we will cover each topic in details which is our focus here. A larger amount of people ask about the following laptop problem.
What you need to know before you start to disassemble a laptop. What tools you need. How to remove a memory/wireless card. Read our How Tos section.
Replacing Laptop Hard Drives - Illustrated how to replace a laptop hard drive
Don't rush into replacing the hard drive before troubleshooting the problem. The first step I take when working on any laptop or notebook computer is to remove the battery. Even if the power button is well protected, like under the closed lid of the screen, it doesn't mean that the power might not come on due to a mechanical jolt or a short when you're working on the innards, so the best bet is to just get the battery out of there.
Laptop batteries generally require two actions to remove them. In this case, the lock is on the front edge of the case, and it slides to the side. After the lock is released, the battery slides back just an inch or so to release from the connector, after which it's lifted out and removed.
open laptop hard drive access panel There are two basic scenarios for laptop hard drive replacement, the easy access scenario and thetake the whole laptop apart scenario. This Toshiba notebook is the easy access scenario, at least as far as exposing the drive goes. The hard drive is concealed behind a removable panel on the bottom of the laptop, which is held in place with one long screw.
As we lift the lid over the hard drive, you can see the long plastic tube that serves both as a screw guide and as a mechanical support. It should be immediately apparent that the hard drive isn't going anywhere without the cage either being removed first or coming with it. hard drive in notebook More Details - thanks to fonerbooks.com
How to Laptop Keyboard Repair
As most of you already know, not all notebook keyboards are made the same, and the keyboard you get when buying one of those “budget notebooks” isn’t always a high durability keyboard, especially if you are a heavy typist.
So, I got an Averatec 3250 which had a few keys that died after about two years of usage. After looking on eBay for a replacement keyboard, I decided that I wasn’t going to pay $60-80 for a used replacement keyboard and overpriced shipping, since I lived in Europe. So, I set myself on a quest to find a way to repair the keyboard I already had.
After disassembling the defective keyboard, I noticed that the silicon membranes that provided the support for each key where independent, unlike their desktop counterparts, where there is usually one big membrane covering the entire keyboard. More Details - thanks to iraqigeek.com
Laptop is dead. How to troubleshoot the problem
In this post I’ll explain how to troubleshoot a dead laptop and find the problem. The following troubleshooting tips are not model and brand specific, they should work for most laptops.
Let’s take a look at two different scenarios.
Example 1.
The laptop is absolutely dead. When you plug in the power adapter and press on the power button, there is no signs of life at all. The laptop will not make usual noises, LEDs will not light up, the fan will not spin, the screen is blank and black, etc… In short, the laptop is dead.
What you can do in this case? 1. Make sure the wall outlet is working and the laptop DC adapter is getting power from the outlet. Try another wall outlet. 2. Test the laptop DC power adapter, make sure the voltage output is correct. You can test the DC power adapter with a voltmeter. 3. Let’s say the DC adapter is fine and the adapter outputs correct voltage. In this case unplug the power adapter from the laptop, remove the battery, wait for 1-2 minutes, plug in the adapter and try turning on the laptop again. More Details - thanks to laptoprepair101.com
Illustrated Laptop Repairs and Upgrades
One laptop failure that is usually worth repairing is the hard drive. Laptop hard drives have a higher failure rate than desktop hard drives, assumedly because they get bounced around more while operating. Notebook computer hard drives come in two flavors - the ones that are easy to get at, just a single screw or a even a slide in component, and those that require you to crack the laptop open. This Sony VAIO laptop hard drive repair is one of the latter. One of the few upgrades you can actually do on a notebook computer is the memory, and then only if the maximum isn't already installed. Memory upgrades are usually pretty trivial, providing you purchase the correct upgrade component. More Details - thanks to daileyint.com
