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Toshiba laptop ram issue

Written by pancyber on . Posted in Blog.

In computers, when you see red, it is never good news!

This laptop was randomly crashing very often, and a quick check showed that one of the ram modules was faulty – or maybe not? After replacing the seemingly faulty module, the same error appeared again.

A careful investigation showed that the problem was on the motherboard.; the south-bridge IC had overheated had to be re-balled.

Hot choco in laptop

Written by pancyber on . Posted in Blog.

It could also be coffee, but guys at the workshop couldn’t be sure… The point is that this unfortunate laptop won’t boot again. It’s sad story begun a couple of months before it was brought to us, when it’s owner spilled a (not so) small amount of his beverage on it’s keyboard – but wiped it thoroughly as he said. The poor thing kept working for two months while sugar was slowly corroding everything metallic in her path…