Laptop Repairs My laptop is pretty old and not really worth a high repair bill but fairly sure its it just the power connection socket on it that's broken. More often than not it will not turn on unless the power cable is held in a certain way and I have tried different power cables and it makes no difference. Any idea where I could get it fixed? Is it just a standard part or specific to each model. The model is a Toshiba Uquium L10-300. Cheers!
If you feel bold enough, you can get the bits on ebay to repair it yourself. It sounds like a broken or dodgy solder joint near your power socket, I'd either open it up and see if you can re-solder it, or look for a replacement motherboard on ebay: http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=....l1313&_odkw=Toshiba+Uquium+L10-300&_osacat=0 There's tons of boards kicking about as spares. Repairing laptops is easy as long as you're patient and careful taking it apart, and you make a note of what goes where. Toshibas are easier than most to repair, some Dells are like 3D jigsaw puzzles that come apart as soon as you undo the screws...
Yeah, I'd thought of trying to do it myself like that. Even found a tutorial on how to do it on the net somewhere but soon as I heard soldering decided against it. I'll have a go opening it up and see if I can see the probelm. Cheers fella.
If you're not a fan of re-soldering, then I'd defo recommend replacing the motherboard. I've done it before to an old toshiba of mine. Took a couple of hours and a few cups of tea to fix a dodgy keyboard connection. Definitely worth doing
Didn't go as well as I planned. Managed to get it open but cut my thumb in the process and but now I've got to the power socket connection bit it was definitely loose.
Decided to just leave it in bits. Got a mate who I'm gonna ask which I probably should of just done in the first place.
I followed conways advice and tried to repair mine, didn't look to hard from the guides on the net...... made it worse and had to pay £150 at laptop repair shop to get it fixed
