Laptop repair for dummies
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| caitlyn May 19, 2013 1:04 PM EDT |
Over the past year I’ve received two laptops, both Toshibas, in non-working condition. If I could fix them I could have them for development and testing. I am decidedly hardware challenged (hence the dummies reference) and yet I was able to get both of them going again. One needed an internal cleaning, some connections reseated and a new battery. The other needed a fan to be cleaned so that it would turn again and a shorted battery pack that needed to be replaced. I’ve been inside a number of laptops over the years and I have had the best luck at being able to service the Toshiba products. Of course, your mileage may vary. |
| Bob_Robertson May 20, 2013 10:24 AM EDT |
I bought a used laptop on Ebay, which was so clogged with hair that I was surprised the fan could turn at all. When I wrote back to the seller to tell him that it had arrived in working order, I asked how his white dog was doing. He was surprised that I knew, until he saw the photograph of the felt pad that had built up on the cooling fins. I am very thankful for the various sites over the years which have published disassembly instructions for laptops. |
| jdixon May 20, 2013 11:05 AM EDT |
> I am very thankful for the various sites over the years which have published disassembly instructions for laptops over the years. One of the things I like about Dell is that this type of information has always been available on their website. It's not always easy to find, but it's there. |
| CFWhitman May 20, 2013 1:23 PM EDT |
jdixon wrote:One of the things I like about Dell is that this type of information has always been available on their website. It's not always easy to find, but it's there. Service manuals are always available for HP laptops as well, or at least for their business class ones (I haven't dealt much with consumer aimed ones, so their service manuals may or may not be available -- I don't know). |
| Bob_Robertson May 20, 2013 3:16 PM EDT |
You should-a aught-a seen what I had to do to get the service manual for my Sony VAIO laptop. Sony didn't even want to admit that such paperwork even existed. |
| jdixon May 20, 2013 3:18 PM EDT |
> Service manuals are always available for HP laptops as well... I've been able to find the information needed on most HP laptops, but not all. That may merely be a failure on my part. However, IMO, their writeups are nowhere near as good as Dell's. |
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