Did you forget to re-new your anti virus, or just have bad anti virus on your laptop? Do you now have a virus that needs removed from your laptop?

Laptop Repair Birmingham can removal all types of naties from your laptop. Our process is simple, we take the laptop back to the factory settings. Firstly backing up all your data this includes: files, documents, pictures, music, videos and emails. We then blast the system clean and format the hard drive.

We then recover our system back to the original state as wit was like when you first purchased the laptop. Then we restore your data. This process removes all viruses from the system. We will also recommend and sell you proper anti virus software so that future viruses do not infect your system.

If you have a virus and need virus removal service in Birmingham give us a call today and we can happily help remove the virus from your laptop.

We carry out laptop repair in Birmingham and see a lot of laptops that can’t start up properly.

The lights go on and the welcome screen come on but windows fails to load all the way. There a few reasons why this can happen.

1) Windows updates, this is security updates that windows automatically downloads from the Microsoft website. Sometimes the updates are not always 100% compatible with the laptop they are being installed on. There was an update last year that left many laptops without access to the main operating system windows Vista. The easiest way to fix this problem is to roll back the operating system to a restore point. This can be done with the Windows Vista install CD or special recovery tools if the install CD fails.

2) Bad hard disc. This is one of the most common issues with broken laptops. Hard disc drives are one of the only components in a laptop that have moving mechanical parts apart from the CD drive and fans. However the hard disc drive is critical to the system and sometimes they start to fail. In fact all hard discs will fail with enough time. They are also delicate devices and do not like shock or bumps. If the hard disc fails in a laptop the quickest repair is a new disc and re-install the operating system. Prices vary depending on the size of hard disc. There is also the option of recovering the data off the hold hard disc. This includes music, pictures, files, documents and video. However this is dependant on how badly the old drive has failed.

3) Viruses sometimes can cripple a laptop and will not allow you to boot into windows. I’ve seen this a number of times however most people think a virus is there to vreak a computer when infact new viruses try to steal your credit card information and make you part with money. They can also log all activity on your laptop so keep protected or you might have you might become a victim of ID fraud!

In all cases please give us a call here at laptop repair Birmingham and we’ll help get your system up and running again.

More often than not laptop issue occur because of faulty hard disc drives.  One of the only mechanical parts inside a laptop with moving parts this device stores all the information for your laptop computer.  Drive failure will occur to all laptop hard drives over a given period of time and it the most common issue of hardware fault.

We can source a replacement hard disc drive for your laptop with the correct size, speed and make that will work with your laptop.  Newer hard disc drives are coming onto the market known as solid state drives.  These operate at much faster speeds, consume less energy and are solid state which means they’ll last a lot longer than a traditional hard disc drive with moving parts.

However these new solid state hard disc drives do come at quite a high price compared to a normal laptop hard drive which can be purchased for as much lower sums of money.  Here at laptop repair birmingham we like to offer our customers the best solution at the most economical price hence the reason why we state the options of a traditional hard disc drive or the newer solid state drive.

If you have a bad hard drive in your laptop we will try and recover all the date off the old drive and transfer to your new drive.  Leaving you with a satisfied better value for money service compared to our competitors who will just fit a new drive and bin your old one!

Laptop Repair Birmingham offer a range of services in the Birmingham area.  Included in these services are laptop screen repairs.

We often see smashed laptop screens or cracked laptop screens.  This is a common accident that can easily be fixed by our local engineers.  Prices usually come in at under the the home insurance excess however if you are quoted more than your home insurance excess we can provide a fault report to claim the cost of the repair against your policy if it includes accidental damage which in 99% of case are the common reason why a laptop screen has failed.

The laptop screen repair takes only a few hours however the correct screen may need to be ordered up for your laptop, our engineers will be able to advise on the cost of a replacement screen and whether it is economically viable to continue with a laptop screen repair.  It is in our interest to fix your laptop at a reasonable price so please do not delay and get in touch with our local repair engineers for a quote on your laptop screen repair.

Laptop screens can vary in size and our local laptop repair birmingham engineers will advise on the price for a replacement screen for the given laptop.

Screens sizes range from 10inches diagonal to 17 inches diagonal. With varying connections internally, it is crucial that the correct screen is ordered that will be compatible with your laptop.  Here at laptop repair Birmingham we can help resolve this.  So let the professionals take care of you call today.

Over the past months we have been designing the website which is almost finished, we’ll be adding videos to the side bar and changing the images on the left which don’t really make much sense.  Laptop Repair Birmingham telephone number is now active when dialed you will be put straight through to a local laptop engineer in the Birmingham area that will be able to help you resolve your laptop maintenance issue in the Birmingham area.

We do invite your feedback our all aspects of our engineers abilities and prcing so please do not heistate to leave comments on this blog with customer comments on feedback.  This will serve two purposes.

1) We will be aware of how well the local laptop repair engineer in Birmingham is doing his job, service and price.

2) This will help other laptop repair customers in the Birmingham area come to the correct decision of where to get their laptop repaired.  From cracked, smashed laptop screens to dead laptops we do it all so give us a call today.

Laptop Repair Birmingham is proud to launch this unique Internet service, call the number for a quote and you will be put directly in touch with an engineer, this has two benefits also.

1) When you call the local laptop engineer based in Birmingham he will give you a good price becuase your speaking direclty to the person that will fix the laptop – no middle man!  PC World have a similar service however they are the middle men and will charge a flat rate of £229 for any laptop repair.  We will beat this price every time and in 99.9% of the cases we will beat this price by 50%.

2) Because your speaking directly to the local laptop repair engineer for the Birmingham area the time taken to repair your laptop will be minimal so you can be rest assured that if you have a laptop repair problem in the Birmingham area it will be fixed fast.

What are you waiting for? Call now for a quote.

One way to kill a laptop is to spill water or some other form of liquid onto a laptop.  This can include tea, coffee, red wine, in fact any type of liquid!  If you have spilled something on your laptop the best thing you can do is quickly turn the laptop upside down so the liquid does not get through to the laptop’s motherboard.  However I’m guessing if you are reading this it might be too late!  It all depends on how much liquid was spilled on your laptop.

Laptop Repair Birmingham see common issues with laptops that have had something spilled on them.  If it’s a small amount of liquid you may be lucky and only your keyboard has stopped functioning.  Quite often the laptop keyboard will stop working or just a few keys.  If this is the case a new keyboard can be an inexpensive repair usually no more than £40.  Or you could purchase a USB keyboard and use that with your laptop however your laptop would become less portable.

Other issues tend to be complete failure of the laptop.  The laptop will not turn on and there is no response from the laptop.  Or the laptop lights will turn on briefly and then cut out.  If this is the case Laptop Repair Birmingham may be able to help.  We can give you a quote for repair.  This can range in price depending on what laptop components are damaged.

When you spill something on a laptop it can cause damage to the keyboard, motherboard, CPU and sometimes the RAM so repair prices do vary and it may become cheaper just to buy a new laptop.  If this is the case we will still be able to help recover data off your old laptop and we can use the other parts inside your laptop for recycling.  This can save a lot of waste and you know that even though the laptop is a write off some of the parts will be put to good use.

Newer laptops are not starting to appear that use LED backlights.  The backlight is the part of the laptop screen that light’s the screen.  This is crucial as without the backlight you would get a very dim display.  Sometimes your laptop backlight can become faulty and you will get a very dim screen.  This can usually be caused by a faulty laptop backlight in the screen.  Most laptops use the CCFL backlights.  CCFL is almost like a small florescent tube inside he laptop screen.  As mentioned the newer screens are starting to use LED backlights, these use up a lot less power which can conserve the battery in your laptop.  The LED backlights also do not need an inverter.  This is another part inside a laptop that can also fail.  The inverter will top the backlight from working.  Sometimes instead of replacing the whole screen in a laptop only the inverter needs to be replaced.  This can mean a far cheaper repair for the customer.  Laptop repair Birmingham always try to get the best price for laptops repairs in the Birmingham area.  If you have a problem with your laptop screen give Laptop repair Birmingham a call and we will be happy to help fix your problem at minimal cost.

Other benifits of LED backlight laptop displays are also thicknes, they are much thinner as pictured here.

Pictured below is your typical CCFL laptop backlight, CCFL’s can be found in scanners to.  Not only in laptops.

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Quite often viruses will get on to laptops and the user is unaware of the actual threat of the virus.  It is simply assumed that a virus will stop your laptop from working correctly and may damage your laptop.  However this is not the case and viruses can have far wider and greater implications for the user.

Laptop repair Birmingham has identified the top five reasons why you should have a virus removed off your laptop as soon as you are aware of it’s existence. 

1) ID Theft.  Some viruses will install what is known as a key logger on your laptop.  This is a stealth bit of software that is hidden from the user and it’s main purpose is to log everything that is typed on to your laptop keyboard.  The key-logging software will collect all keystrokes and store them on your laptop.  On a regular basis, hourly/daily the key logger will email the collected keystrokes to the virus makers under cover.

This means that eveything that you type into your laptop someone else will know about.  This has implications for ID fraud and theft as well as credit card fraud and possibly even wider implications if the laptop is used for business purposes and confidential information is processed on the laptop.

The majority of residential customers do online shopping so every time you enter your credit card details the virus maker will know your details and they can start to use these details to go on a spending spree!

2) Internet disconnection.  Your Internet may be disconnected by your ISP (Internet service provider) depending on the type of virus you have on your laptop.  This is because some viruses will be part of what is known as a bot network or zombie PC network.  Your laptop then becomes useful to a virus maker for Internet crimes such as spamming emails, they will use your laptop to relay spam emails.  It then looks like you are the spammer!  Other types of crimes include DOS attacks (denial of service).  This is when the virus maker holds a website to random and tells them that if they do not pay a certain amount of money they will attack the website with their bot network (your laptop and many others) If the DOS attack happens the website will stop working and big websites that have a lot of revenue generation can loose millions within a few hours if their website is compromised.

To stop these bot networks your ISP has monitoring software which it uses, if it notices your laptop is part of a bot network, your Internet will be disconnected!

3) Hard drive malfunction/laptop overheating.  If the virus is utilising a lot of your laptop’s computing power to carry out spam DOS attacks then it could overheat your laptop as you’ll find some viruses run away with system processes, which basically means the CPU (central processing unit) in you laptop is constantly being used.  This leads to the laptop overheating and can cause damage depending on the laptop model.

4) Loss of data. Quite often a virus will render your laptop useless and not allow you to start up your laptop.  This causes laptop booting issues.  If you have pictures and other data that is important there is the possibility that if the virus does some damage to the start-up process of your laptop then you’ll never get to that information again, this i where backups become impornatn.  Here at laptop repair Birmingham we do have tools to recover data off a laptop that may be infected with a virus and will not start up.

5) Financial implications.  As well as the virus that may steel credit card details you have to think about how much it will cost to repair a laptop that has a virus.  There are different processes to remove viruses off laptops and depending on how badly infected your laptop is it may be quite costly to remove and repair a laptop that has a virus.  Anti virus software should be though of as an insurance policy for your laptop, a bit like home insurance.  We recommend that you stay away from free anti virus solutions as there are not always effective and you really do get what you pay for.  Staying protected with the correct anti virus solution is vital to a trouble free Internet existence!

If you have any quieries about laptop virus removal or just want a check up on your laptop plesae do not hesitate to get in touch with laptop repair Brimingham.

Check this out, independent research by a company that provides warranty repair on laptops. It’s a failure rate of the major manufacturers in the industry, surprise surprise HP are the worst!

Laptop failure rates

The amount of HP’s I see with dodgy motherboard faults is increasing. I do like HP’s but after the amount I’ve seen in the past year I would stay away from purchasing an HP laptop. I do recommend Dell as they usually have good prices and if something should go wrong they are easily fixed.

To be fair Toshiba, Dell and Sony laptops we see the least of at Laptop Repair Birmingham. Of course these figures are not completely accurate as there are more Dell and HP laptops out in the wild compared to Leveno and Asus, also the figures are US based it seems. Computer shops here in the UK like PC World and Currys have their own brand, Packard Bell.

Hopefully this graph and the comments I’ve made make choosing a laptop an easier choice out there for someone reading this. As has been mentioned on this website, Laptop Repair Birmingham try to offer more than one solution, so it seems we recommend more than one laptop manufacturer.