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Category: Laptop Repairs

Articles about repairs we have done recently.

Have you seen our Wall Computer?

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Have you seen our Wall Computer? In the front showroom of you shop we have a computer on the wall. In the picture below it is off, but rest assured it works just fine! It is basically an entire computer, it is just missing one common component- the case! At the top left is the […]

Cracked Palmrest Replacements

Have a cracked palmrest? One of the more frustrating things that can happen to your laptop is a cracked palmrest. 99% of the time this is a cosmetic issue, but if you do a lot of surfing or typing it can scrape and scratch your arm, rip clothes and just be downright annoying. The good […]

Broken hinges and sometimes the lid

We have been doing hinges  repairs on laptops for a very long time.  One of the local police departments uses are services when one of the laptops in the police cars gets the lid knocked off the laptop.  So if it is just a simple hinge repair or the hinges plus the plastics associated with the […]

Overheating HP DV6 Laptops and Fan Replacements

The HP Pavillion DV6 models come in with heat issues all of the time. At this point we are getting multiple units in every week. People mail them in or drive them in to our Cary location. What are the symptoms of a bad HP DV6 Fan? When a DV6 is experiencing heat or fan […]

ThinkPad T series Fan Replacements

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The ThinkPad T series laptops are among some of the best laptops manufactured. The T61p units were even used on the International Space Station. They are very reliable units but all machines fail eventually. Starting with the T60 models the fans seem to give up first. Often after a fan replacement the ThinkPad T series […]

VSLI CMOS Chip on the Wall at Absolute Computers

One of the facinating and geeky things we have on the walls of Absolute Computers is blown up picture of a microchip. This VSLI CMOS chip, containing 150,000 transistors, was designed in 1988 in Research Triangle Park. It is roughly the size of a dime. It provided “high speed” 16 Mbit/s communications between computers using […]

Dell 1500 video problems

We had a customer having video issues.  He lives in Ohio and had taken it to several local repair places including several  big box repair centers. They all just told him to buy a new computer.  It turned out that his video card had gone bad.  He was very happy that we were able to […]

Liquid spills on laptop keyboards and repair solutions

We have seen many keyboards will spill damage lately. The most popular liquids appear to be soda (Coke is number one), wine and water.  Coffee seems to rarely get spilled into laptops – go figure! Some models that we have seen frequently lately (and fixed)  with liquid spill damage on their keyboard include  HP DV7, […]

Apple’s New Macbook Pro with Retina Display and LCD Repair – 2012

Apple recently announced the MacBook Pro with the Retina Display. If you have good eyesight – the display is truly stunning. Technically this 15.4″ display has a resolution of 2880 by 1800 pixels – roughly twice the competition. I would encourage you to check it out. If you buy a new Mac now, it comes […]

GLEDDC5003ALD111 is a WSXGA cable

Looking for a gleddc5003ald111? As of right now, this cable is very hard to find. There does not seem to be a true HP P/N available for it. We can tell you that this is a DV5 WSXGA LCD cable. Hope this helps in your search!