You have until March 21, 2012 to get in on the settlement. The settlement will provide a cash payment if you are the original owner (by purchase or gift) of certain Apple MacBook or MacBook Pro computer models and your adapter showed signs of showed signs of Strain Relief Damage.
For full details please visit:
www.adaptersettlement.com
The new iPad 2 has a security flaw. The password can be cracked in 5 seconds. There are limitations (so far) of what you can access once you’re in. Watch this video to see it in action:
We took in a HP PL4260N 42″ Plasma TV recently. The TV would power on then back of quickly with no display. Some research online revealed that almost all of these TVs failed with the same problem. Knowing we were in luck we researched the information further. We replaced the IC chip on both the Y Sustain & Z Sustain boards, put it back together and the TV powered right on!
We decided to take this home for further observation. 
This is a picture of a Dell 1545’s lid and what goes wrong with them. We replace a lot of these here. Dell refuses to replace the lids even when the units are under warranty. When we have the same machine come in 50+ times with the same precise problem it is very obviously not customer abuse. Some things never change.
Looking for a gleddc5003ald111?
As of right now, this cable is very hard to find. There does not seem to be a true HP P/N available for it.
We can tell you that this is a DV5 WSXGA LCD cable.
Hope this helps in your search!
We had a Dell LCD (model E198FPf) come in today. The customer did not want it any more and they gave it to us. For giggles we opened it, and as suspected, it had bad capacitors. We replaced them and the LCD is up and running again.
The ThinkPad W Note.
This is a very unique laptop. Once we obtained this we searched all over the Internet trying to find out more about it but could not. So we did our own research.
Where did we get this? A customer gave it to us. They said they had no use for it. It had been used for a couple of years and has the average wear on the case to prove it. It was just treated like any old laptop until we received it. Here we have kept it under wraps and just shown it to a few ThinkPad fans over the years.
The machine is very similar to a Z60m. The plastics are glossy and unlike most ThinkPad laptops, they scratch very easily. According to the BIOS the machine type is VBW1-B30.
On the top of the laptop there is a label. Some of the relevant info that it reads is:
W_NOTE – S I V
Model Number: – BW1-B3
Processor: – Cel M 370 1.5Ghz
Chipset – 915PM (Leaded)
Graphics – ATI M22-CSP64 Hynix non-Compeq Substrate leaded 216TFHAKA13FH
M/E Top Case – ABS Model
AC Adapter – Astec’s 90W 2pin
Speaker – FG
Finger printer FPC – Flexium
Gate Array – Rohm TSURMIA (BD4175KVT)
PCB – Dynamic
Several places on the outside (& inside) of the laptop are labeled W-Note-I SIV #79081.
For an optical drive this has a DVD/CDRW flopping around in the bay. The drive has a matte finish. We were told this is how it was obtained.
Since it has a 915PM chipset it should take a 1.7Ghz PM CPU & 2GB DDR2.
While in storage the battery died. A Z60m battery will drop in but they will not have the glossy finish. On the back of the original battery there is a sticker that reads:
W-note by Pana
5.2Ah Rom:B-06 Ver22-B
#22 2005/03/17
The unit arrived here with a base XP install and no drivers. We installed the drivers and it works great.
Labels on the bottom indicate the unit has not met FCC regulations and may not be offered for sale. However this simply means it has never made it to production and gotten FCC approval. It is just like any other laptop, uses a standard battery, 15.4” screen, 2200BG wireless card, etc.; nothing crazy in it.
Would we sell it? Sure, if the price is right. We’re big ThinkPad fans here and it is neat having it around.
Other specs: 100GB HD, card reader, 3 USB ports. It came with a 256MB chip in it with the original “W-Note-I SIV #79081” label on it which we replaced with 2GB RAM. Any system with 256MB is unbearably slow and just plain abuse!
More pics:
This is what to do if your Dell Inspiron 1525 stops recognizing AC adapters.
We get a lot of them in and the power going in from the center pin is not making it to the part of the board where it should be.
We take a wire and run it from the center of the jack over to pin 5 on the connector.
To find out more about our power jack repairs go here:
http://absoluteraleigh.com/power_jack_repair.html
Today we had an MSI E7235 come in for a power jack repair. The jack was loose and the user had to hold the jack in the “right direction” to get it to work. This is very common in most laptops and something we have repaired thousands of times. To find out more about our power jack repair services go here:
http://www.absoluteraleigh.com/power_jack_repair.html
Models affected:
PCG-61112L, VPCCW13FX, Some other VPC-CW.
At this point we are not certain if ALL of these models are susceptible to the issue or not as only a handful have come in just out of warranty as of May 2011, but the other VPC CW models include: CW13FX, CW14FX, CW15FX, CW17FX, CW18FX, CW190X, CW19FX, CW19GX, CW1AGX, CW1BGX, CW1CGX, CW1DGX, CW1EFX, CW1FFX, CW1GGX, CW1HGX, CW1IGX, CW1JGX, CW1KGX, CW1LFX, CW1MFX, CW1NFX, CW1PFX, CW1QXG, CW1RFX, CW1SGX, CW1TFX, CW1UFX, CW1VFX, CW1WFX, CW1XGX, CW21FX, CW22FX, CW23FX, CW26FX, CW27FX, CW290X, CW29FX, CW29GX, CW2AFX, CW2BFX, CW2CGX, CW2DGX, CW2EGX, CW2FGX, CW2GGX, CW2HGX, CW2JGX, CW2KGX, CW2LGX, CW2MFX, CW2MGX, CW2NFX, CW2PFX, CW2QGX, CW2RGX, CW2SGX, CW2TGX, CW2UFX, CW2VFX.
Symptoms:
The screen will be dim. It will look like the backlight has gone out (these are LED lit screens). There will be no image on the screen. Replacing the screen does not help.
Problem:
A component on the motherboard can be damaged. As of May 2011 we are not certain what causes the problem.
Solution:
On the models we have had in for repair we have been able to locate and work around the bad component. As of May 2011 motherboard repairs are a flat rate of $149.
