Top 5 Tips In Laptop Repair

Are you experiencing laptop problems and are not sure how to fix them? A malfunctioning laptop can cause panic attacks for a control freak, who relies on this gadget for his work, and more importantly, his life. Here are five tips in laptop repair that you can use before calling the manufacturers toll free, or sometimes premium rate, service line.

First consult your laptop service manual. Does your laptop appear to be inactive even if it is plugged? Is the battery charge light, power light or hard drive light not functioning or does not appear after pressing the power button on? What you can do to repair this is to first of all check the AC adapter with the use of a voltmeter to gauge the output voltage. Another way is to look for a reliable and known AC adapter and use it as a tester.

If you think the adapter is working but the laptop remains dead, you most likely have a problem with the mother board so it is best to replace it. You can also try removing the battery and waiting for two to three minutes before restarting your laptop.

If this trick does not help, you could try checking the memory module. Just remove the memory module from the slot located on the power board and install it back then restart the laptop. In case your laptop has two memory modules installed, you should try one memory module at a time to determine if one of them is faulty. If one of the memory boards turns out to be faulty, you can replace the motherboard all together or make use of only one good memory board.

Second, a laptop with a faulty hard drive makes repetitive grinding and clicking noise when turned on. To repair this, remove the hard drive and restart your laptop. Make sure you check your laptop repair guide on the steps in removing the hard drive. You can be sure the hard drive is faulty if the laptop runs quietly without the hard drive. You should consider replacing your hard drive.

Third, repairing processor overheating which results to the sudden shut down of your laptop. When laptops overheat, the heat sink clogs up with dust and the sediment collects between the fan and the heat sink thus trapping heat inside the laptop. Repairing this involves cleaning the heat sink through the air intakes or getting access to the cooling fan and cleaning it as well. You will need compressed air to blow off the collected dust.

Fourth, repairing poor onboard memory, this is another popular complaint of laptop owners. The onboard memory is incorporated into the motherboard which means a problem in this memory will force you to replace the whole motherboard. You will know if you have a faulty onboard memory if unrecognizable lines, dots, or other characters appear on the screen when you start your laptop. You can only test the onboard memory with memory testing utilities and if the test turns out positive, you can only replace the motherboard to ensure this problem is solved.

Fifth tip is on repairing loose laptop power jacks. After a while the power jack of your laptop gets loose preventing contact of positive pins to the motherboard. Because of this, the laptop will continue to use the battery power even when the power adapter is plugged. A good tip fix this problem is to first adjust the power adapter plug and test if the problem reappears. If so, you will need to have the laptop disassembled in order to take out the motherboard and get the power jack resoldered.

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