Hey everyone. We are a local computer repair shop based out of Poughkeepsie NY. Our goal is to create videos of repairs of all kinda from Desktops, Laptops, retro game consoles and more.
I am almost 74 years old, but his video certainly was helpful and encouragement that I could replace my 10 year old Toshiba L55T battery. WOrking just fine. Replaced the hard drive with a Solid State drive with help from a friend. Old touch screen laptop working great still!
friendly reminder to please be careful with your wifi connectors when you're taking them off, he makes it look easy in the video but mine ripped off when i tried to take it off.
Thanks for the video. I just installed my new jack and it works great. I have the Toshiba Satellite L755. Looks to be the same. Thanks again for the help.
not trying to be mean but i hope you're not charging ppl for any of this "work" all your joints look cold. flux and cleaning your tip often would help immensely hell a clean tip alone would help. you need to start using fresh solder on every contact threes enough rosin in the solder just by doing that. adding solder to the pads after cleaning it is just asinine put the part down then with your tip touching the trace and pads then adding solder directly to the power switch is the right way., never add solder to the tip before hand that's just dumb and burns off the flux in the wire. if you used a hot air station even a cheap one you would have been able to remove all those power switches and salvage them all for parts instead you ripped the switch off and tore pads and trace in the process. for a beginner youre on the right track and its a start, keep working on your technique and you'll be able to charge and send off repaired products knowing you did your best and have confidence that your work will last.
what are your thought on thermal paste for the voltage regulator, do you think its necessary to replace old stuff or not really a bother as its an old system and should not work to hard?
I was encouraged to see that this can be done. However, my local shop is telling me that on my WD 12 TB MyBook (Helium Drive) which stopped spinning and makes no noise at all, that there are multiple chips to be swapped and the estimate is between $900-1800. I've already ordered a donor. (Western Digital WD120EDAZ-11F3RA0 12TB PN:2W10322 US7SAM120 Hard Drive IU HA500). Have you ever done the needed donor swaps on this one?
I have not messed with a Helium drive. Those newer drives could potentially have multiple chips that need swapping or special software to decrypt firmware etc. That quote does seem high but could be plausible. Probably more involved than just swapping firmware chip. I'd say if the data is important to you possibly reach out to more data recovery places and see what they say
At 2:55 in your video your thumbtip is next to a large silver colored square. What is that? My laptop now smells of burning plastic and that corner under your thumb gets hot real quick on the housing above.
13:04 So sadly I tried to remove the power connector and the 4 silver squares came off with it. Is there anything that can be done to try and get it to work or pretty much all hope is lost?
PAL machines do also have the RF shield in, but that's the first thing that goes away... These computers get warm enough without them, and the shield is not directly helping the airflow, even the later model with metal shield is thrown, even though it has som parts bent plate to touch the chips as e heat drawing.. it's better to put heat sinks on the chips that need em.
I know this is an old video but hope to get a response... Is the bios on every HDD different? Even all ones next to each other down the assembly line? What I want to know is it possible to swap a controller from another drive that has the same Model and Same Firmware on them?
Any way of telling power is the issue with it not starting besides taking it apart? Thinking I have a bad AC adaptor. Would be nice if the unit had an LED light when it was turned on or something
hi, ive got two WD drives one 1tb that needs a PCB swap. and ive got a 2tb wd exactly the same PCB numbers, except for one digit, ie xxxxxx3006, and xxxxxx3007 would the one digit make a difference in a bios chip swap? cheers
I know this video is old but i hope you look to my comment , i have exact same notebook and i bought a new jack. But i don't understand how to put back those band like cables. Should i just shove it in there and close the switches ? i don't wanna break anything thanks 🙏
The atari 2600 power supply is a linear unregulated supply so 14v is normal and sags down to 10v once you fixed the voltage regulator. Also, I woudl NOT trust that voltage regulator ground pin in the long run. I'd use a regulator that had a metal tab so you get a better ground connection from the ground plane. You could also bend that middle leg backwards and scratch away some of the solder mask to expose more ground plane and solder into that for a stronger connection. Those legs on the new regulator were heavily oxidized, you could tell by how they rejected solder at first.
Please help me : Question , i have the L55-B Laptop . it's old and on it's death bed . Can i buy the exact same model laptop (newer of course ) and put my HDD inside of the new one and just run like my old one ?
please help me, I also have a dead board (2060-800055-002 REV P1) Purple 4Tb Ordered from China the same board with the same revision. I replaced the BIOS-a chip, but the disk is still not displayed in the system. In the Bios of the computer it is shown as but Gb. But during initialization, it issues an I/O error. How can it be repaired
please help me, I also have a dead board (2060-800055-002 REV P1) Purple 4Tb Ordered from China the same board with the same revision. I replaced the BIOS-a chip, but the disk is still not displayed in the system. In the Bios of the computer it is shown as but Gb. But during initialization, it issues an I/O error. How can it be repaired
hello dude , i have thiss problem i really can't find help or someone who had the same problem. I have this gba sp 001 , It never powers ON ...when i charge it , the charge holds, i don't have the blinking charging problem i see everywhere....but no matter what i try, plugged on or not , the console will not turn ON, not the slightest start, no red or green light . The fuses are good and the switch looks good ( i tested it and the continuity changes when i switch it on and off) . I also bought a new battery . Do you have any idea where i should search for im lost . Thanks !
I have the same corrosion problem, I think the WHAT is bad, the u4 has to modulate to 6v, right? If so, I lack that voltage, the truth is I don't know how to continue ...
Mixing distilled vinegar and rubbing alcohol makes a powerful acid there are lot of sources that say not to do so because of the danger as well as others that say its a good cleaner, But I would expect it to be to much like using acetone. Not sure though if you even used the alcohol though.
Great informative video. My WD HDD (2005) PCB board fried due to power surge and took out the PSU too. I am currently waiting for my repaired PCB board (BIOS swap) from PCB Solution in Canada. I didn't trust my shaky hands and faltering eyesight to do it myself. I am hoping that the repaired PCB will allow me to clone the old HDD to a new one to possibly boot my computer that now has a new PSU. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Can you post a list of the supplies you used to repair this laptop please? I have the same laptop and the same problem. I also need to find computers keys, a charger and I need to figure out how to login or do a login reset. Please help. Thank you.
Make sure to tin your tip when it's not in use and before you turn it off; I don't think it's transferring heat well for you and looks like it's very oxidized; also put a little solder on the tip and there will be more heated surface area; it would've helped you a lot for this video.
