You are eligible for a free repair if you experience one or more problems with some HP laptops even after the original factory warranty is over. The following laptops are included in the Limited Warranty Service Enhancement program. HP Pavilion dv2000, dv6000, dv9000. Compaq Presario v3000, v6000. This service enhancement program is available in North America for 24 [...]

Here’s how you can replace the CPU cooling fan in a Toshiba Satellite A65/A60 laptop without taking the whole thing apart. If the cooling fan has become very noisy and started making a grinding sound, apparently it’s time to replace the fan with a new one. The cooling fan can be accessed if you remove the keyboard [...]

Here are instructions for taking apart a Dell Inspiron 1720/1721 or Dell Vostro 1700 laptop. You can use these guide for removing and replacing: 1. Laptop memory, hard drive, wireless card, modem. 2. CD/DVD optical drive. 3. Laptop keyboard. 4. LCD panel. 5. Heat sink, CPU, motherboard and other internal components. Are you looking for spare parts for your Dell Inspiron 1720 [...]

With this illustrated disassembly guide you’ll be able to take apart a HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop and remove the system board. The main reason for removing the system board is accessing and replacing the cooling fan witch is located on the bottom side of the system board. Sequence showing an HP DV5000 Laptop being dismantled. The [...]

If your Dell Latitude D820 laptop runs very hot and noisy, most likely it’s time to clean or even replace the cooling fan. Thanks to Bite my bytes for the picture and some instructions. The cooling fan in this model is buried deep inside the laptop so be ready to take the whole thing apart. This [...]

This guide published on LaptopLogic.com explains hot wo replace stock hard drive in a Toshiba Qosmio Q45 notebook. For some reason Toshiba equipped this powerful notebook with a slow 4200 RPM drive. As you know, the hard drive is the slowest component in any computer and replacing it with a faster 7200 RPM drive could [...]

In the following guide I explain how to take apart a Sony Vaio VGN-S360P laptop and replace broken power jack (aka power connector or DC jack). I’m not sure if this guide will work for the entire Vaio VGN-S line or laptops but I think it will be pretty close. If you have a different [...]

Is it possible to upgrade the processor in a Dell Vostro 1500 laptop? Apparently it is, check out this post. MikeT was able to upgrade his laptop from Intel Celeron M540 processor to Intel Penryn T9300. I would assume that this upgrade could work for Inspiron 1500/1521 witch is the same laptop with a different name. In [...]

With this tutorial you’ll be able to remove and replace the cooling fans in a HP Pavilion zd7000 laptop. In this model the heat sink has two cooling fans and it could be accessed from the bottom of the laptop. In order to remove the heat sink you’ll have to unplug both cooling fan cables from [...]

In this tutorial I show how to remove and replace the keyboard on a Dell Latitude C840 laptop. This is a few years old laptop but I still like it and use every day. The keyboard removal and replacement procedure is pretty much straightforward and shouldn’t take more more than 15 minutes. Turn off the laptop, [...]