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[Mr Skrunts]

If there are less than 5 screws left over then the jobs a good un.   

[robbo299]

Had the same prob with my daughters Compaq lap top. All she had was a blinking power light on her keyboard and nothing on the screen. One repairer said it was probally the power jack connection and took it for an estimate. That took 5 days and the outcome they said was a new motherboard was needed at a cost of £130+   Wasn`t entirely happy with the diagnosis so took it to another lap top repairer who has a small shop near me and he diagnosed almost imediately the problem. Took him a week to find and replaced faulty component on motherboard and charged me £70. Component was just a few pence to replace he explained but cost of repair was mostly faultfinding. I thought about "having a go" myself before i took it for repair and downloaded a repair and faultfinding PDF file for her lappy but when i saw how complex it was decided against it. Like has been said above.... hope Daz doesn`t have any screws left over!

[JamesV6CDX]

Took him a week to find and replaced faulty component on motherboard

That's the difference - the larger dealers don't always have the time to go into so much depth.

When I worked in a computer shop, we'd not go into that much detail.

Considering the extra labour/time, it was more cost effective to just swap the motherboards out...

[dad1uk]

Is no news good news?
Has Daz Destruction struck again?
Will he own up to messing it up?
Is there a faulty laptop on Ebay in the Stoke area?
If it's Del, is it the one with a pink top?

[Darth Loo-knee]

It (the laptop) is now sitting somewhere on the lawn in the garden after throughikng out of the patio door
Did not have any screws left over though

[CaptainZok]

It (the laptop) is now sitting somewhere on the lawn in the garden after throughikng out of the patio door
Did not have any screws left over though

Give it a drink of hot chocolate, that's how you fixed the last one.

[Darth Loo-knee]

It (the laptop) is now sitting somewhere on the lawn in the garden after throughikng out of the patio door
Did not have any screws left over though

Give it a drink of hot chocolate, that's how you fixed the last one.

How very dare you..... I tripped carrying six hot chocolates  scolded myself in the fall too

[PhilRich]

Leave it out all night mate, some passing hedgehog will probably piss on it & it will be right as rain when you plug it in again! 

[ali]

Has your laptop been spending too much time with mine :-? Ive spent the last few hours with the same problem Have managed to turn it on but its getting very hot   :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

[Ken T]

If there are no lights, then as Killer Watt said it prob means power isn't getting into the works. So DC socket is the favourite, caused by people pushing and pulling their plug.



 Trouble is when the soldered joint goes bad it still passes 3A of juice, which starts to heat up the PCB around the socket. This can burn the PCB, and ruin tracks, esp if its multi layer. 

If all else fails, it can be worth a few bob for spares. Stick it on fleabay.

Ken

[eddie]

Is it a Dell by any chance ??  (No not Dellboy!)

I posted a fix for this in here somewhere... if its a Dell see if the  (thin) pin in the middle of the plug (on the laptop end of the adapter cable) is still there ??

eddie

[tunnie]

if its still in once peice (sort of) Daz i can take a look.

If your still popping down London way?