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Laptop LCD Screen Turned White

2010-03-01T10:52:00.000Z

Taken from Laptop Repair Guide: wwwlaptoprepairguide.org

Generally, there are some cases that the laptop LCD screen become white:

Video cable and LCD screen loose connection
The LCD screen itself has defective
There’s some problems on its motherboard.

As the LCD screen turned white, there is no image on the laptop, showed as the picture.

Please check the video cable connection first. Mostly s the laptop screen may turn white because of poor connection between the video cable and the LCD screen. Reconnecting the video cable may fix your problem. It means that you have to take apart the LCD screen.

If reconnecting the video cable and LCD screen does not work, please make a test with another working LCD screen, identifying what the problem is, on LCD screen or the motherboard. So the laptop screen needs to disconnect the inverter and video cable, and reconnect to another working LCD screen. If it works, the problem is on the LCD screen. If it’s not, the problem relates to motherboard.

If you cannot judge what the problem is for the time being, you can still use an external monitor. Please connect the monitor to the VGA port on the back or side of laptop and then switch the video output from internal to external mode.

Please note that different brand products may have their own key combinations to toggle modes . For example, Toshima laptops: Fn+F5 keys, IBM laptops Fn+F7, HP laptops Fn+F4. On some laptops, you may need to connect it to the laptop and restart the laptop so the external monitor is detected by the laptop, then can be used.

London Weather and Business

2010-01-10T22:51:00.000Z

Hello London, UK and the World. Sorry haven’t been here for a while.

We have been getting a lot of support calls recently. Up 600 per cent – which is great.

A shout out to all small businesses in London – if you are having computer or IT problems then we are here for you. We are here no matter what the weather.

Londoner’s take care.

Scootek Computer Maintenance for London
http://www.scootek.co.uk/

Stay in touch with instant messaging software

2009-10-28T23:02:00.009Z

Once a month my 2 year old daughter and I call her aunt. We live in London; they live in NY. It has allowed us to communicate using text, voice and video. My sister has literally seen her grow: Something that would not have been possible a decade ago.

Instant messaging software allows us to chat instantly to anyone. Most of my friends and family don’t live in London but I never feel alone because someone is always there to talk to.

This short article is the result of finding out that many (yes many) people still don’t use Instant Messaging either because they haven’t tried it or they hated the fact that the ones they have tried slowed down their PC with advertising.

There are many Instant Messaging software out there and the vast majority or the popular ones are free. Here is some of the more popular Instant Messaging Software with their links;

1. Google Talk

2. Windows Live Messenger

3. AOL Instant Messenger

4. Skype Instant Messenger

5. Yahoo Instant Messenger

My favourites or the ones that I use are Google Talk and Skype. I mainly use Google Talk because;

1. As far as I am concerned it is a clean piece of software that is not crammed full of advertising that slows my PC down. There is no advertising at all.

2. The great thing about Google Talk is that you can have Voice and Video Chats.

3. It’s simple to use and very friendly interface.

There are other features, but those three are the main reasons I used Google Talk. Also it’s easy to setup and it’s a feather light piece of software that doesn’t take much if not any disk space. It took about 10 seconds to install on my laptop. No exaggeration. I thought it didn’t install for a second until I saw the icon.

Another bonus is that you don’t really need to install the software to use Google Talk. That’s great news for people who work in companies where you can’t install applications or instant messenger software. As long as you a have a Google Mail aka Gmail account you can use Google Talk. Google Talk is integrated with Gmail.

I am not promoting Google Talk because I am a fan of Google. I am quite neutral. I just like great products. When it comes to Office Apps Microsoft is the best and so on.

To get it, Download Google Talk from Google. Once you're on the Web site, click the download button, click Run in the File Download dialog box, and follow the prompts to install it.

Scootek Ltd, London Computer Service, PAYG Computer and Laptop Repair in London

Hello London and the World

2009-10-26T21:03:00.000Z

Hello London and the World.

This is new a Blog for Scootek Ltd. We are a London based Computer Support and Computer Maintenance company. In London we provide fast and reliable Computer Maintenance and Repair to businesses and homes.

We are a friendly bunch and offer a personal service in a world filled with large corporates. We have two loves; Technology and Scooters. We love our Blackberry's, Sony Vaio's, Lambretta's and Vespa's. Probably in that order. :)

Anyway, this was supposed to be a short intro. So that's it for now. If you are in London and need any IT related help visit www.scootek.co.uk I am sure we can help.