Sometimes a laptop motherboard will develop a problem with the chipset. This chip cannot be removed with a heat gun or soldering iron. Under the chip are aroun 300 tiny balls. One of these balls or connections may break because of overheating and a reflow may be needed. A reflow means reflowing flux under the chipset with a hot gun and then placing the motherboard on a machine and firing infra red light at the chip to heat it up to around 200-240 degrees and then allowing it to cool and sit properly.
This may fix the chip. If not you may need to reball. This involves completly removing the chip cleaning the motherboard then replacing the balls under the chip in order to make the chip work properly. For any questions regarding reballing or reflows give us a call today.

A motherboard is a plastic board inside your laptop that connects all your devices. Devices are cd roms hard disks, memory chips and so on. The motherboard will sometimes stop working for a number of reasons.
The most common reason for a motherboard not working is if it overheats. Over heating causes a lot of headaches with laptops. Just a simple can of compressed air blasted into the back of the laptop can cure this problem.
Another problem with motherboards are failed chipsets. The chipset is like the main powerhouse of the laptop it communicates with other chips on the motherboard and sometimes it itself can fail. This can happen if your laptop is picked up with one hand. This sometimes occurs on samsung laptops and you may require a Samsung laptop repair service.
This failure will also occur on thin laptops with heavy screens. This is why this problem is more common on bigger laptops as the screen is heavy and when you pick up the laptop you bend the motherboard creating bad contact inside the chipset.

A common repair we receive at our docklands offices is sony laptops that will not switch on. Customers sometimes feel as if thier laptop is finished and need to buy another. This though is quite often an easy repair and usually its just 1 tiny component that needs replacing.
Sony laptops will not switch on if they overheat. If they have liquid damage. Or if they are not handled correctly, sometimes even dropped. One company that specialises in sony laptop repairs is based in London. They can help with sony laptops that will not switch on.

Hp are a strange company. They make fantastic laptops and they make not so good laptops. The dvmodels usually suffer with graphic card faults especially the dv9000. This is an easy repair for a skilled engineer. Then they make the nc models. They are fantastic laptops that hardly ever break. The dv9000 will at some point boot up with no image on the screen. This is because of overheating. The nvidia graphics card will then need to have a reflow or reball. They problem can sometimes occur again in the future and many companies will not give a warranty on repair.  A good laptop repair company that can help with laptop repairs is Laptop repairs canary wharf. They are specialists in reflow work and reballing. Always clean the fans on any laptop as ths prevents the no image on screen problem.

A hard disk is where all your pictures your music and important documents are stored. take a look at this image of a hard disk. It is half opened. The disk looks just like a dvd doesnt it? It is and yet it holds so much more files. The hard disk works exceptionally hard. It spins very fast and this is one of the reasons they die before any other part of the laptop.

Usually data can be retrieved by removing your hard disk from your laptop and carefully placing it into a sata caddy. The caddy is plugged into another laptop or pc and the data can be drag and dropped to the new pc. If you have problems with your laptop hard disk try London laptop repairs. They can help with all sorts of laptop repairs.

It is very easy for us to retrieve data so give us a call if you have any questions regarding data recovery.

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