Laptops - Care and Repair

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Laptops / Notebooks - Care and Repair for yours.

I only have owned few brands of notebooks. IBM, Compaq, HP, ASUS, and [yuck] ACRE . But in my career I have worked on many other brands. So most of my information and experience will be from the IBM and ASUS.

Each page will give some instructions on notebook computer repair and how to do a task, or information on the subject of the page. Most of the information will apply to all notebooks but in some cases it may be product specific, as a technician you do not always get to work on all makes and models. The company I worked for over the last ten years was an IBM and Dell shop as far as notebooks were concerned and the IBM ThinkPad was the computer of choice due to the warranty that IBM had for larger business.

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Most of the information in this section will also apply to netbooks and a little bit to the new fad: Tablets [that is waning...]

If you are wondering if your notebook will run Windows 7 / 8 / 10 then check the hardware requirements then look at the optimization articles of Windows7 section.

Notebooks - Care and Repair, Maintain, Fix, Clean, or Upgrade

What is your notebook problem?

• The battery will not last as long as it used to?
• Does the keyboard have dead keys?
• Your hard drive to small?
• Want to increase the memory?
• What about the processor?
• Can you upgrade the cpu?
• Can a notebook be overclocked?
• Just how would you go about opening a notebook anyway?
• How do you clean the video screen?

That and much more are in these page resources:

Resources:

Windows 7 hardware requirements.

Windows 7  optimization articles.

For the more experienced DIYer looking for notebook repairs see this page: Advanced Hardware Topics