Component Level Repairs

Tuesday, 30. August 2011

Component-level repairs In the image to the left you can see a hewlett packard motherboard. At the top in the middle is the south bridge chipset. This handles the sound modem and other cards attatched to the board. This chip rarely has any problems at all. On the left is the memory chips. These will suffer problems often just after a memory upgrade as the customer may put thier greasy fingers on the contacts and cause memory problems freezing and the computer locking up. In the middle of the image are some integrated circuit chips and also some capacitors.  There are 2 large bobinas on the left. the capacitors will sometimes die on the motherboard and this is quite a common problem. They usual fix is just to replace them. for an engineer this will only take a few minutes.

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Whats the difference betwwen SATA and IDE hard disks

Tuesday, 30. August 2011

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There are many different types of hard disks on the market at the moment. Here we are going to discuss the different types of laptop hard disk. The most common type of hard disk is a sata hard disk. The image on the left is of a sata hard disk. The image on the right is an Ide hard disk. When you need to order a new hard disk from a company that sells them, you will need to know the type of disk you require. If you have pins you need an ide hard disk. If your hard disk looks like the image on the laeft you will need to order a sata. Also make sure you order a 2.5 inch hard disk if its for a laptop and a 3.5 hard disk for a desktop computer. The other types of hard dsiks available are solid state hard disks. A solid state hard disk does not spin. It looks like a memory chip and in essence it is. The great thing about this disk is there are no moving parts. This has meant there is less chance of malfunction. This is not as true as it would seem as we have seen many solid sate hard disks fail. There is a company based in london that can help you with this problem they are great for laptop Repairs