Comments on: How to fix hardware problems without taking apart the laptop

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:06:25 +0000

@ krish,

i have a sony vaio laptop. it is not starting up at all. what could possibly be the problem?

How exactly it’s not starting up? Any lights at all when you push on the power button?
Try this. Remove the battery, unplug the AC adapter, push on the power button for a few seconds. Now plug in the AC adapter and try turning it on again.

By: krish

krish — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:51:59 +0000

i have a sony vaio laptop. it is not starting up at all. what could possibly be the problem?

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:46:53 +0000

@ Michael Myjak,

I have a dell D800 with a broken microphone jack. Is there any way to fix just the jack? Like fix the solder joint on the mother board? If so, how do I disassemble the laptop to get at the offending jack?

Here's Dell Latitude D800 service manual. The manual explains how to disassemble the laptop. I don't know if it's possible to fix just the jack because I don't know how bad the damage is.

By: Michael Myjak

Michael Myjak — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:06:10 +0000

I have a dell D800 with a broken microphone jack. Is there any way to fix just the jack? Like fix the solder joint on the mother board? If so, how do I disassemble the laptop to get at the offending jack?

Thanks -
Michael

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:12:35 +0000

@ Val,

When I turn on my HP Pavillion TX 2522 the screen stays black, capslock and numlock are active, tried to remove the battery for half a day and then held the power button for 60 sec, it didn’t help so took it to get a free check up done-they said the motherborad is damaged and needs replacing for $240

If you have nothing to lose, you can try one of the following methods:
http://www.laptoprepair101.com.....p-laptops/
http://www.laptoprepair101.com.....hics-chip/

By: Val

Val — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:44:28 +0000

Hi there,

When I turn on my HP Pavillion TX 2522 the screen stays black, capslock and numlock are active, tried to remove the battery for half a day and then held the power button for 60 sec, it didn’t help so took it to get a free check up done-they said the motherborad is damaged and needs replacing for $240 I was wondering if anyone knows any ways to fix it, am a poor student so can’t really afford paying $240 and the lap top is not particularly new anyway!Thanks

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:55:44 +0000

@ viany,

i have a lenovo y500 series laptop. there is a problem in my laptop “sometimes it is start and sometimes not”

Possible memory failure. The laptop should have two memory modules installed. Try removing them one by one and test the laptop with each memory separately.
If one of the modules is bad, the laptop will start and work properly when you remove it.

By: vinay

vinay — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:47:28 +0000

dear,
i have a lenovo y500 series laptop. there is a problem in my laptop “sometimes it is start and sometimes not” so please resolve my problem by mail. i will still waiting for ur reply.

thanking you.

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:53:46 +0000

So there is no getting around replacing the motherboard both of my USB ports were damaged during travel, was thinking of resodering the pieces back into the motherboard but now I am looking into an external!

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:44:45 +0000

Last night, my HP mini laptop was acting slow, while I was deleting pictures and files. So, I decided to restart. Which I did, everytime it starts up. it doesn’t go directly where you enter your password on the user account. It stays stuck on loading part showing the windows xp icon. I have no clue what to do.