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Thread ID: 145570 2017-12-05 21:47:00 Who writes this rubbish wainuitech (129) PC World Chat
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1443008 2017-12-05 21:47:00 What A Laugh-- Seriously some of the articles on Stuff are total garbage. Most don't even know what they are talking about.

www.stuff.co.nz

LOL
He took one look at its tiny, 90GB memory and sent me straight back to get one with enough memory, which was 256GB.

Seriously, don't know of any laptops that have that much memory-- :lol:


Last week my laptop died. Well, that's not strictly true – its power socket did after a power surge blew it out, rendering it impossible to recharge. That bit--OK depending on what's actually blown, if it were just a simple socket then replace it, just got one in for a laptop here, Lets just say its under $10. 		wainuitech (129)
1443009 2017-12-05 22:17:00 Well the article was written by a customer not a tech, so we don't know what was actually said. It does highlight how little an average user knows about the hardware they have.
I noted the recommendation for a surge protector and the comment that she did have one, just adds to my opinion that those things are largely useless.

The power socket thing, I recently found an article but a very skilled tech who decided to take a look at a dead laptop as an exercise to see if it was worth the time to fix it. Coincidentally it turned out to be the power socket on the laptop.
Yes he replaced the socket and Identified a couple of fried components and replaced them too and the component cost was very small, but if you factor in the time taken to strip down and diagnose the laptop and it's age even that simple repair was not worth it.
It's something that is probably worth doing yourself if you have the skill, but generally not worth paying someone else to do unless they have a very cheap hourly rate.

And that tech was above average, there is little to no need for actual circuit repair and diagnosis required to work as a computer repair technician these days. Actually fixing a faulty component rather than replacing it is the exception rather than the rule. Often times with modern circuit design just replacing a resistor or capacitor can take a couple of hours and specialist knowledge and prove expensive so it's just not done for the most part. The only time that's likely to happen is when you sent something back to the manufacturer or their agent and even then they are likely just to replace the faulty part.

Here's an example, the charging circuitry on my galaxy tab 2 got fried - I suspect when I plugged an external hard drive into it to see if it could read it (the answer is no, does read flash drives though). PB tech sent it back to Samsung NZ, who replaced the mainboard. The tablet still worked fine and you could actually get it to charge - just incredibly slowly (about 5% in 24 hours) and it discharged rapidly whether you used it or not. Sounds like a minor fault in the power circuitry yes? solution throw the whole board away. Even then it's a major mission to pull a tablet apart to do that. 		dugimodo (138)
1443010 2017-12-05 23:12:00 What a halfwit.
Of course walking into a toaster shop (one not doing too well to boot) and asking a salesman is of course going to get you the you need a new laptop answer.

and the ram.....wow, and here's me thinking 16G was standard at present. 		pctek (84)
1443011 2017-12-06 00:25:00 That could easily be my scenario. Not all of us have the IT knowledge you find here, though the concept of buying a second lappie to act as a paperweight on the chance the other breaks down does seem sublimely stupid.

That's my devils advocate play of the day. 		allblack (6574)
1443012 2017-12-06 02:17:00 Nonsesne, you hang out here....and would ask and get a decent response from the likes of Wainuitech.
You certainly wouldn't as in a shop!! 		pctek (84)
1443013 2017-12-06 02:38:00 heres the original.
www.smh.com.au
For some reason Stuff put it in the tech section :badpc:


Ive seen worse , an actual tech on a blog post saying a customers PC was too old for Win10, after it had issues following a 10 update (it was running 10 fine previously)
... because it wasnt listed as being confirmed 10 compatible on the HP website ... 		1101 (13337)
1443014 2017-12-06 03:56:00 The worst I came across was customer with Win98 PC, down South.
She had a dial up issue and came to me and said Telecom told her she had to buy a new PC.
In fact it was the internal modem....once I got her to use the dialup icon, and see what error it gave.

Telecom helpdesk told her "win98 didn't do that digital stuff". Their exact words.

Hmmm....DOS and bulletin boards? Guess we used a hamster in a wheel or something. 		pctek (84)
1443015 2017-12-06 10:52:00 I would assume her conversation was over an SSD drive.

Anyways, if your laptop's adapter does not have over charge, short circuit or over voltage protection then get one that does. That can save you losing the laptop for the price of the adapter and sometimes you can get ones that can be reset, saving the price of a new adapter. 		Kame (312)
1443016 2017-12-06 19:55:00 Anyways, if your laptop's adapter does not have over charge, short circuit or over voltage protection then get one that does. That can save you losing the laptop for the price of the adapter and sometimes you can get ones that can be reset, saving the price of a new adapter.

huh :badpc: :badpc:

The batt management circuitry is in the laptop itself (or in the batt)
A powerpack simply cannot manage batt charge . Thats not how things work.

Just get a genuine power pack. Thats all you need. It wont help if the power circuitry in the laptop has blown though .
Completely dead laptops can allways be fixed , but not many places doing component level repairs on laptop motherboards . I only know of 2 in Ak. 		1101 (13337)
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