Mark McGlashan is a fully qualified PC Repairs Engineer
How to Repair PC Hardware is a question many customers often ask me and I usually give the same answer it is expensive and impractical also inaccurate.
I quote the statement inaccurate as a repaired motherboard for example is never as good as one released new from the manufacture working correctly like a blue print, that is not to say that one repaired would not be good and last a long time but one must keep in mind a motherboard can take anything between one hour and forever to fix, one must also keep in mind you can get a brand new motherboard with a full year guarantee perfectly adequate of meeting most people needs in a daily computer environment
It always annoys me when people who do things like use word and the internet just for browsing also watch DVDs and play a few none system demanding games get hung up on having a really expensive computer which they will never really need to use. Let us give brief run down of a cheap system
Case £20.00
DVD £20.00
CPU £60.00
Motherboard built in graphics card and sound £20.00
1 gig of ram £20.00
Floppy disk £4.00
Monitor £80.00
Here we have a full system that will serve the need of any everyday user and for a under £230.00 The time labour charge and the chase down of components needed for fixing a motherboard could easily amount to a lot more than that so unless someone had an old system relevant to run something that is no longer in production but useful for their business it is totally impractical this is the same that applies for hard drives and floppy drives. You can always tell an amateur on a job it takes them ages to just accept the part is not working and it needs to be replaced instead they spend ten hours on a job which could have be resolved in a fraction of the time they wasted, had they known what they were doing in the first place the would have figured out this shortly after seeing there actions were making no changes.
How to Repair PC Hardware is practical when we need to repairs keyboards and we are stuck with no other option also when our mouse starts to malfunction we can open it and clean it these points are worthwhile same with changing a Power supply yet another time consuming part to repair and why bother when you can pick up a cheap one although highly not recommended none the less are available for under £10things like CPU fans can be cleaned and contribute to reducing excessive noise but once the bearing have gone cleaning will not help it is time to accept reality with How to Repair PC Hardware.
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