Recent content by mcinator

After extensive work on this laptop I found a faulty ribbon cable between the switch and motherboard. Now this computer performs rock solid. Strange problem, simple solution, just difficult to find.

I purchased a Lenovo Flex15D with this peculiar problem. If the charge cable is plugged in the laptop will not start or even show the power light being on. Unplugging the charge cable the laptop starts normally. The old trick of removing the battery and charge cable and pressing the start button...

I sincerely hope I'm wrong, however to me is appears to be either a power up switch circuit board or motherboard. The first is considerably cheaper than the second. If you're familiar with disassembly of laptops it would be relatively easy to remove the keyboard and palm rest to replace the...

I just purchased a Toshiba Satellite C55-b5300 and after resetting the rtc time removed the battery to install more memory only to find that on startup the boot required the rtc clock to be reset. I went back and disassembled the bottom to find the CMOS battery and there was NONE! So what's that...