That cleaning montage at the end was the cherry on top, love seeing somthing manky clean up good.

Not a home computer repair story but they weren't around when this happened...

The cleaning reminded me of a repair I did back in the early 1980s to a CRT television. It was in a house with such heavy smokers that the tar/nicotine had built up on the back of the CRT causing severe arcing from the EHT.

Having removed the nicotine from the back of the tube which stopped the arcing, I noticed the tar/nicotine had also covered the outside of the wooden case. Being kind I decided to clean it off using foam cleaner making it look much better and more pleasant to touch.

However, when I returned the TV to the customer the change in colour from dark to light brown was so drastic they claimed the TV I had returned was not theirs and that I had swapped it for another one!!!!!!!! It took a LOT of convincing to persuade them it was theirs.

After that I didn't have the heart to tell them that the BLUE gun on the CRT had no emission and that all they were seeing was RED/GREEN. The blue component of the picture is so small anyway and it had deteriorated over time so they didn't notice and were quite happy watching it that way ..... or perhaps their glasses were also covered in tar/nicotine and they couldn't see it :-)

You know happiness after board worked is worth than the money :D

Nice repair, I would always test power rails before doing the bios, You still could get fan spin if the CPU V core is missing or dead CPU, I hate it when I get laptops and they messed with the bios and it was a power rail, I had a Lenovo  which came in because of a failed bios update, the laptop was completely dead no power, Reprogram the EC Chip (build in eeprom) and it worked. Usually I would check to see if the charging lights comes on, Normally that would indicate a good EC eeprom file but there was no charging light because of the corrupted EC eeprom, just a quick way to test the EC eeprom. 👍 Super IO term comes from the old desktop boards.

Didn’t realise where you were from until i walked past your store the other day! Keep up the great content

Ive seen all of your lets fix computer vids. You are an amazing tech and its highly theraputic just listening to these vids, thank you :)

Always enjoy watching these videos and have been watching for a few months and it's just brilliant to sit down and watch him do what he does best

I like the way you talk to the viewers, you talk you do not scream. well done.

when you said "I'm not an expert"
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Good job on fixing this laptop on a Friday afternoon! 👏 👏 👏

I have this exact model with this exact problem; I didn't even consider a BIOS issue (I've got no experience with laptop repair, only embedded systems, and that's going back a few years now). Got a new avenue to explore now. Many thanks for a very informative video!

i wish every repair was that easy great video

You could probably upgrade the CPU in that laptop to extend its life a bit more.

I have a deep love for toshiba laptops… the one I had allowed me to update from a pentium to i3 I messed about with ram sdd s I know this is basic but it’s where I started to be fair!

6pm on a friday afternoon??? Hahahaha.
Love your videos though, taught me a lot as a junior technician

Exellent job graham

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.”

Great fix Graham. Puzzling to me what would cause such a fault within the chip.

interesting.  stay well

Thanks so much for the video have been waiting for such a video for  a  long time

Cool, more Adamant IT repairs.