Category Archives: Hardware Fault
Double HP Hard Drive Failure
CPU Fan Failure
When replacing a CPU fan it’s generally a good time to also replace the thermal paste. Thermal paste is a semi-viscous compound, that’s applied between the CPU and the metal heatsink. This allows the transfer of heat between the top of the CPU and the metal heatsink that sits between the Fan and the CPU.… Read More »
Apple Mac Battery
Laptop Hard Drive Failure
It’s just over a year old and out of warranty. The business owner said that it hadn’t been right from the start and had been impossible for them to get anything done. It’s likely that the hard drive had been faulty from the start, I’ve seen this many times before. We have removed the faulty… Read More »
Power Supply Unit (PSU) Failure
This Custom desktop gaming PC was brought in for testing. It wouldn’t turn on and there was a slight electrical burning smell coming from the rear of the case. I managed to identify that it was coming from the PC power supply which I tested and found was faulty. Luckily we keep the most common… Read More »
Gigabyte AM3+ Motherboard Replacement
We are starting the day with a motherboard replacement for a customer. This motherboard was harder to source as its using an AM3+ AMD CPU socket and DDR3 RAM. This socket was the predecessor for the now-standard AMD AM4 Socket that’s used for the now favoured AMD Ryzen series of processors, used in conjunction with… Read More »