Modding Guides atRepair4Laptop.org

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Laptopical's Ian Bandy investigates a useful site, founded by Linux expert Werner Heuser, that now offers more than 1000 articles related to upgrading and repairing notebook computers. If your warranty has just expired, and your hard disk is smoking like a coal locomotive chugging uphill, this resource is definitely worth an inspection.

Isn't it abit dark?

OK picture the scene. It's late, I'm sitting in my dining roomwith a little bit of the Black Eyed Peas on the stereo, workingon a new article for the boys at Laptopical. It's warm insidewith a slight dusting of snow on the window lit by the streetlight outside.....All is well with the world - Then the screen goes blank.

We are not talking a so called "blue screen of death" this is asblack as the night outside. My laptop isstill whirring away, but no display. I take a deep breath andcalm down, I hit Ctrl and S, the document is saved, I hit thepower and the machine powers down. Turning it back on thefamiliar "Ta Da" tells me the notebook is on, but the lessfamiliar black screen tells another story about the display.

"Don't Phunk with my Heart" starts from the stereo, and I wonderif my screen is well and truly "Phunked" as well.

However, not to keep you in suspense too much, moving over to myancient desktop I stumbled across a great little site after igoogled "SamsungV25" and "Screen problems". According to repair4laptop.orgthis is quite a common fault with my trusty V25, and with a quickcable change the next day, my portable pal could express itselfvisually again.

Repair4laptop.com was founded by Werner Heuser, a respectedfigure in the world of linux.It is a veritable encyclopedia of information about laptopmodding, and a useful guide toupgrading, and repairing your mobile gadget. It has clearinstructions that are written in the main by users themselves,and so is constantly growing and evolving into an even handiertool every day.

Navigation of the 1000 modding guides and articles is a breeze,with 6 tabs on the top of every page that direct you to laptops,general hardware, wireless LAN, accessories, modding and how to's/FAQ. Every tab will takeyou into a further subset of model names or specific hardware,notebook computers and their associated innards. It also has auseful sitemap that will take you on a virtual tour of whatawaits you within its knowledgeable pages.

If your notebook is giving you trouble, take a look at this wealth of information,bookmark it and file it under just in case. If things ever go alittle off track you will be glad you did.

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