Repairing HP Laptops

[Allan The Shield]

Hello All,

I recently had the pleasure of being told by HP that the damage to my LAN port on my compaq nx9010 was deliberate (which it wasnt). This invalidated the warranty and they have quoted £126 for repair of the said LAN port.

I am an experienced computer technician and feel that i could repair this myself, however i tried typing "how to repair HP laptops" into google and only got about 3,000,000 repair centres. Not great.

My question - does anyone know of fairly accurate and up to date technical information on how to repair HP laptops, available for download from the internet?

Thanks in advance

Al

 

[tfinch2]

just get a pcmcia network card...

 

[Allan The Shield]

Already have one, but i would like to expand my knowledge of HP laptops. My company actually sells alot and it would be handy to be able to know how to repair them too.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Allan The Shield
Hello All,

I recently had the pleasure of being told by HP that the damage to my LAN port on my compaq nx9010 was deliberate (which it wasnt). This invalidated the warranty and they have quoted £126 for repair of the said LAN port.

I am an experienced computer technician and feel that i could repair this myself, however i tried typing "how to repair HP laptops" into google and only got about 3,000,000 repair centres. Not great.

My question - does anyone know of fairly accurate and up to date technical information on how to repair HP laptops, available for download from the internet?

Thanks in advance

Al

Only way to find out more about your laptop is to pop the thing open. The LAN port may be built into the motherboard, in which case you'll need to replace the motherboard.

What exactly was damaged? Was it physical or electrical damage?

 

[Allan The Shield]

The CAT5 Cable no longer 'clicks' into place when pushed into the LAN Port, it was no way deliberate either - it was more a slow degradation of quality because i noticed it slowly getting more loose and loose as time went on.

I can understand HP's point of view because ive seen loads of lan and modem ports 'click in' function destroyed from people hurridly picking up thier laptops whilst leaving lan cables plugged in and bending the metal guard.

I suppose you are right, the best way to learn about something is to get right in there, it would just be good to see a tech manual for the laptop to know where to start.