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My next door neighbour has a Tosh laptop that's not charging the battery
any more. She knows it's not the battery because it charges in another
laptop.

Apparently she went to see the laptop company who quoted $60 to even
look at the thing - which seems a bit rough to me, but then I've never
been in the market for a laptop repair before so I wouldn't know.

Can anyone recommend a good and reasonably priced laptop fixer?
Wellington area...

Cheers,
Dave

Thats cheap for a laptop repair quote.
On most laptops you are looking at a motherboard for that type of fault.

You didn't quote model of the Tosh!!!

"David Preece" <> wrote in message
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> My next door neighbour has a Tosh laptop that's not charging the battery
> any more. She knows it's not the battery because it charges in another
> laptop.
>
> Apparently she went to see the laptop company who quoted $60 to even
> look at the thing - which seems a bit rough to me, but then I've never
> been in the market for a laptop repair before so I wouldn't know.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good and reasonably priced laptop fixer?
> Wellington area...
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

David Preece wrote:

> My next door neighbour has a Tosh laptop that's not charging the battery
> any more. She knows it's not the battery because it charges in another
> laptop.
>
> Apparently she went to see the laptop company who quoted $60 to even
> look at the thing - which seems a bit rough to me, but then I've never
> been in the market for a laptop repair before so I wouldn't know.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good and reasonably priced laptop fixer?
> Wellington area...
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

What model is it? Is it out of warranty? Toshiba have a 3 yr warranty on
laptops but if it's older than that then $60 doesn't seem too unreasonable
to me. Parts & labour will be on top of that of course.

My Tecra S1 has just died today but fortunately it's still covered by
warranty.

Mackin.

Robert wrote:
> Thats cheap for a laptop repair quote.

Oh, that was for *looking* at it, IIRC.

> You didn't quote model of the Tosh!!!

I don't know it.

Dave

Mackin wrote:
> What model is it?

Dunno.

> Is it out of warranty?

Almost certainly, but I'll check.

> Toshiba have a 3 yr warranty on
> laptops but if it's older than that then $60 doesn't seem too unreasonable
> to me.

Just for looking at it? Hmmm, 'kay.

Dave

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:24:58 +1300, David Preece <>
wrote:

>My next door neighbour has a Tosh laptop that's not charging the battery
>any more. She knows it's not the battery because it charges in another
>laptop.
>
>Apparently she went to see the laptop company who quoted $60 to even
>look at the thing - which seems a bit rough to me, but then I've never
>been in the market for a laptop repair before so I wouldn't know.
>
>Can anyone recommend a good and reasonably priced laptop fixer?
>Wellington area...
>
>Cheers,
>Dave



That is very cheap, these things are not cheap to repair..

"Geronimo!" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:24:58 +1300, David Preece
> <>
> wrote:
>
>>My next door neighbour has a Tosh laptop that's not charging the battery
>>any more. She knows it's not the battery because it charges in another
>>laptop.
>>
>>Apparently she went to see the laptop company who quoted $60 to even
>>look at the thing - which seems a bit rough to me, but then I've never
>>been in the market for a laptop repair before so I wouldn't know.
>>
>>Can anyone recommend a good and reasonably priced laptop fixer?
>>Wellington area...
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Dave
>
>
>
> That is very cheap, these things are not cheap to repair..

That's the price to look at it, not to fix it, nutter. The parts alone
could cost more than 60 bucks if it needs them.

E. Scrooge

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:24:58 +1300, David Preece
<> wrote:

>My next door neighbour has a Tosh laptop that's not charging the battery
>any more. She knows it's not the battery because it charges in another
>laptop.
>
>Apparently she went to see the laptop company who quoted $60 to even
>look at the thing - which seems a bit rough to me, but then I've never
>been in the market for a laptop repair before so I wouldn't know.
>
>Can anyone recommend a good and reasonably priced laptop fixer?
>Wellington area...
I had my laptop fixed recently, where this wans one of the problems
(under warrenty). It was the power supply. Even though there was the
correct voltage out the end, it wouldn't charge up. Replacing the
power brick fixed it. Have you tried swapping them over with the other
one?
Otherwise probably a MB problem, and that may not be economic to
repair.
Geoff

A friend recently took her laptop in to fix an intermittent power fault.
Billed her $140 labour, and the part was like $2.


"David Preece" <> wrote in message
news:3SO8d.6789$...
> My next door neighbour has a Tosh laptop that's not charging the battery
> any more. She knows it's not the battery because it charges in another
> laptop.
>
> Apparently she went to see the laptop company who quoted $60 to even look
> at the thing - which seems a bit rough to me, but then I've never been in
> the market for a laptop repair before so I wouldn't know.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good and reasonably priced laptop fixer? Wellington
> area...
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:45:06 +1300, "JedMeister"
<> wrote:

>A friend recently took her laptop in to fix an intermittent power fault.
>Billed her $140 labour, and the part was like $2.

Everybody's got to make a living right ?