SONY MOTHERBOARD REPAIRS

One very powerfull laptop is the sony ar series laptops. They do however tend to have problems with the graphics card. This will in turn mean no image is displayed on the screen. The repair for this is a reflow or a reball. The graphics card has over heated and shorted out.
A qualified engineer will be able to carry out this precedure. There are many pc repair comanies in London, but here at Sony laptop repairs, we really are the uk specialists. You may want to have e motherboard replacement in some cases. The graphics cards job is just to draw images on the screen and when it dies you will seeno image on your screen. Give us a call for all your screen problems and we will try to help you with free advice.

On all makes of laptops after a lot of use, a dvd drive may stop working. It will start to spin. The spinning will get faster, then for no apparent reason it will just slow down. Sometimes it will rev like a car, it will rev and slow, rev and slow, rev and slow. The reason for this is the laser diode that reads the data on the dvd cannot be read.
Its not usually the dvd disk the problem could be a dusty dirty diode lens. You can buy a lens cleaner this will fix around 60 % of problems with dvd drives. However around 40% percent of the time you will need to replace the drive. on a pc it will cost even less ebuyer are great for cheap dvd drives. And for an engineer you might try Pc repair in london
This is an easy repair for the engineer. Expect to pay around £60 for a replacement drive.

On a motherboard there are hundreds of chips, diodes capacitors integrated circuits and fuses. All these components need to be replaced if they malfunction. However there are 3 chips on a motherboard that cannot be replaced. I say cannot be replaced, which is not entirely true, they can be replaced but will usually have problems after replacement. Two are chipsets north bridge and south bridge, the other is the graphics card. If you have a problem with any of these 3 chipsets the best thing to do is replace the motherboard.

Where do you buy a sony motherboard ?

One company that sells them is laptop repairs docklands. They are based in London and sell reconditioned motherboards. Although they may not have every motherboard out there. So the simple answer to this question is , its very difficult. We have been repairing sony laptop Motherboards for over 15 years and there are occasions when the motherboard has to be replaced. We have found the best place to find a sony motherboard is on Ebay. However on many occasions the board can be repaired. Many ” computer repair” shops do not understand how the motherboard works so they will tell you it cannot be repaired. Always give us a call first for free advice.

When a sony hard disk dies you will hear a ticking noise. Before it dies owever a sony laptop will usually display a message saying ” imminent hard disk failure, back up and replace”. If you do not follow is advice you may lose the data on your hard disk. When a hard disk makes a ticking noise, you will have to replace it. The hard disk is broken. The ticking noise is caused by the disk arm getting stuck and not moving across the disk. There is only a 10 percent chance of you retreiving any data. Thats why its always best to make regular back ups and copy data to an external storage or disk. For all hard disk faults and to recover data you may want to try laptop repair london. They are specialists in data recover and are based in London.

Sony keyboard repairs

Sony have a reputation for making beautiful looking laptops, for this reason they do not fit the standard keyboards. Some Sony keyboards actually sit beneath the touchpad and just the keys show through. These are the hardest laptop keyboards to aquire. In some cases there is no company in the uk that sells them. If you call sony they will not usually send you out another keyboard. If the laptop is in warranty then you will be able to send them the laptop and have it repaired. This is not always helpfull as most customer do not like to be without thier laptops for a few days let a lone 4 weeks. Also Sony are not cheap if they can buy in a laptop keyboard for around $6 they will try pass a price on to you of around $ 200 for the keyboard and fitting. This is outragous. This is why so many customers come to us we can come to you fit our Sony laptop keyboard and the total price of the keyboard and fitting is £75.00. You might require other laptop keyboard repairs but if you have a sony and If you live in london and you need a sony keyboard for your sony vaio laptop then give us a call today.

if you do not use your laptop on the internet, there is a very small chance you will get a virus. If you are on the internet you must always be carefull what you click on as you may inadvertantly download a virus. What is a virus?

A virus is a piece of software design to slow your computer down and cause other bad behaviour. it should really be called bad software but the name virus has stuck. How do you remove a virus? quite often the damage has already been done if your system is slowing down and sometimes the best thing to do is just reload windows. If you format the hard disk its impossible for there to be a virus. On a desktop computer you will need to remove the sata or ide hard disk and retrieve the information needed. On a laptop if you have a laptop virus you will need to buy an external caddy to save the data before you reload the operating system.

Motherboard problems:

I often get asked what is a motherboard?

A motherboard is plastic board with hundreds of tiny wires going through it that connects important components like capacitors resistors diodes and chipsets. It really controls voltages and information sent around a computer. For example lets say that you are in microsoft word and you want to import a picture into the document. The software keystrokes on the  keyboard or mouseclicks are interpreted by microsoft word and then the software starts to control the hardware. Its way more complicated than this but lets try to keep it as simple as i can. If you are based in Manchester click here for manchester laptop repairs

The processor chipset memory are involved with most of the work, the motherboard carries the information around the bus. The image you wanted is on the hard disk so the hard disk which is like a large cupboard with all your files on it, selects the file and sends the data for it to the processor and the processor and chipset work together with the onboard ram giving instructions to the graphics card which draws the image on the screen. The graphics card will be working hard and may even get hot,thats when the fan on the graphics card kicks in and cools it down. While you impatiently wait for the image to appear in your document, billions of instructions have been sent recieved decoded drawn. The chipset really controls the moerboard its like the conductor in an orchestra. The processor is like a proffessor who works out all the maths for instructions very quickly. The ram is like workers with helpfull hands to help pass on the information, the more workers or ram the faster things get done. The hard drive is like a cupboard with all your files in neat order. If you ever have a problem with your data thier is one company that carries out laptop repairs in canary wharf, they are specialists at getting data back. You can find them in google. Now motherboards.

Motherboards are very very tough. They hardly ever break thats why if your local pc company says your motherboard is broken, allways call us for a second opinion. Motherboards are made in 3 parts then glued together in the factory. ALL chips can be removed from the motherboard however 3 of those are not usually worth removing as its more cost affective to replace the mainboard. There are 2 chipsets on a motherboard one is the north bridge the other is on the south bridge. There is also a graphics card chip.
These 3 chips are unlike all the others. All the other chips ie integrated circuit chips, diodes resistors, fets,bobinas, fuses,capacitors,transistors and power manager chips can all be removed no problem. However the 3 chips  mentioned above have no legs on them. They were stuck to the board and soldered from the inside. We can help with all your motherboard problems becuase we were the first laptop repair company on the net. Give us a call today for help.

Sometimes a sony laptop will not turn on because the pin at the back where the power enters the laptop may break inside. This actually is a common problem. If your sony laptop is not turning on then give us a call today for free help and advice.

Look at the image to the left. This is an image of a laptop we have repaired in our workshop. Can you see the reason why its over heating? Look closely and you will see that between the fan and the grills, its clogged up with dust. The air intake cannot take in cool air, it also cannot expel very hot air. In this situation the laptop usually runs for about 15 minutes then right in the middle of doing something pooof !

The laptop switches off and will not switch itself back on. We have seen this problem around 200 times its very common, however we repair around 1000 sony laptops per year so seeing this problem is nothing new to us. Some laptop repair companies mis diagnose this problem believing that the motherboard is over heating or that the processor is overheating. The processor will over heat in the long run if the laptop is not repaired by our engineers. if you require onsite laptop repairs try pccallout. your laptop is not booting up or has any other laptop problems give us a call today.