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Looking for someone good to take apart and clean the inside of my laptop and troubleshoot the DVD drive. Any suggestions? Geek Squad does not do this. I am in simpsonville but willing to drive to Greenville or Spartanburg
Looking for someone good to take apart and clean the inside of my laptop and troubleshoot the DVD drive. Any suggestions? Geek Squad does not do this. I am in simpsonville but willing to drive to Greenville or Spartanburg
I'm in Simpsonville and would be happy to do this for you. I'll send you a direct message.
Looking for someone good to take apart and clean the inside of my laptop and troubleshoot the DVD drive. Any suggestions? Geek Squad does not do this. I am in simpsonville but willing to drive to Greenville or Spartanburg
Depending on how old your laptop is, you may not want to spend too much money on a technician. If you want a bridge until you decide to upgrade to a newer laptop in the future, you can purchase a external dvd drive for about $35 at amazon.com
To be honest, a lot of new computers are getting away from installing DVD (optical drives) anymore. Most software can be downloaded from the internet, videos and music streamed from a cloud. So depending on your usage, you may want to think about that in your next laptop purchase.
Thanks for the insight and recommendations. The DVD is a minor issue which I can work around. Unfortunately some of the mapping software I use distributes mapping data on DVD as some of the data sets are too big (to them for now) for internet distribution. I am certainly not relying on optical drives for much.
The bigger issue is the cleaning and starting to run hot under load.
It looks like for less than $100 I can keep some more life going on the computer. All of the various system checks have it running fine. Right now I would have to pay at least $600 for an equivalent system. [not a lot of difference in some things in the past three years but I have a dedicated graphics card on this one for 3D mapping]
I am rethinking. Once I see how my current laptop is doing after a cleaning (right now it is still passing all the system tests but I am keeping it cool with external fans).......I may get some external drives and work with those for awhile until I decide. It may be that a desktop is the way I go. One desktop, one laptop - get a new laptop when this one finally fries.
But I still need a laptop to take into field for some GPS mapping. But not outside field, like working from inside a stationary car outside.
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