Laptop Service Price List

Here are ballpark figures on laptop repair and diagnostic costs in the UK.

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Replacement LCD Screen – £ 65
Laptop Inverter and Laptop Backlight Replacement – Prices are discussed on a case-to-case basis.

Laptop Hard Disk Replacement – Starts from £ 60
Laptop CD/DVD ROM Replacement – Starts from £60
Laptop Password Removal – Starts from £ 45
Laptop Windows Install/Reinstall – £ 65

Power Jack (all makes of laptop) – £ 60- £90

Laptop Motherboard Replacements – a £ 180 to £ 300
(Depending on make and model)

Data Recovery Service – Starts from £40 depending on the data volume.
Installation of Computer from new, including call-out – £ 95

Installation of memory – £ 30
Installation of Hard Drives – £ 45
Installation of cards, modems etc. – £ 45

The first is the laptop’s hardware service. This is almost like MOT when the engineer checks and does the laptop hardware work properly or when there is a fault. When we speak about laptops and computers, there cannot be any fault whatsoever. An error of just a bit in the processor operation can ruin everything you do within a fraction of a second. But, processor faults are so rare that it is not worth worrying about anymore. Today, the devices that most frequently develop faults in laptops are hard disks and DVD drives. Hard disks are devices that have fast-spinning parts inside. Due to this fast spinning, which can go up to 7,200 rpm, it can get heated and sometimes the magnetic surface of the spinning disk can develop faults (we call them bad sectors). It is better to have a hard drive without any bad sectors, and if it develops any, the important data from that disk must be transferred as quickly as possible .

There are special software applications to test whether there any bad sectors or not. This software is called UBCD4WIN. This is a huge software application, which makes it possible to start the laptop without booting it from hard disk. In other words, you can look into the laptop hard disk without starting Windows from the laptop’s hard disk at all.

There are a few more parts where laptop can develop fault. The motherboard is one of them. The motherboard is that part of the laptop that controls everything. There is a processor or CPU, memory or RAM, BIOS and other devices that make the laptop work. Just one fault of any of these develops faults in the laptop. But, the electronics of today are so good that is very rare that a perfectly designed laptop will develop any fault in its lifetime. However, it is also important that the quality must be as good as the design of the laptop. We would say that most faults in the laptop are related to electronics mechanics (like the hard disk) and not only the static electronics.

The second diagnostic part for laptops is to diagnose the laptop’s software. This part is more complex in recent times as there are several complex operating systems like Windows, Mac OS Tiger and Linux, etc. Every operating system needs a different sort of service. We will cover here mainly Windows operating systems like Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

There are so many tools and methods to help in diagnosing laptop computer faults, but the important one is your own experience or, should we call it, your sixth sense. Due to the complexity of the laptop’s software and hardware, there is no perfect step by step guide on diagnostics. If the hardware is working properly and if is tested, it is better to look for software related problems. These problems can be because of incompatible drivers, speeded computer viruses, etc. Drivers are the most important part in the laptop’s software. Any malfunction of drivers can lead to laptops freezing. Drivers are usually coded by hardware manufacturers and are very stable as they go through various stages of testing. Usually, the operating system tells that this particular driver is not working or that it can’t be installed because it is not compatible.

Computer viruses are a very wide topic to cover in just one article. There is almost anything you can program to do with a laptop, but there are also various software enthusiasts (mischief-mongers actually) who are coding viruses. In our opinion, it is quite necessary to have some computer programming language knowledge to develop a computer virus. Some of them are just spies but some of them are extremely dangerous, spreading even to computer BIOS. Computer viruses cause the machine to slow down. This is one of the main symptoms of viruses.

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