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Anyone know any decent places in Swindon that repair Laptops?

What's wrong with it?

Got some red wine on/in the keys. I've taken them off and cleaned as many as possible, but there are about 7 that still don't work. This has been since last saturday.

New keyboard perhaps, they are generally easy to fit. What's the make and model?

IIIIIIIIIIIIIII hve the sme prrrrrrrrrrrblem wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiith my lptp.

Camlab in Faringdon Road has just fixed my daughter's lap top, £35.

was that incl parts and labour? What was wrong with it?

It's an Asus X5DINseries.

Crikey seems a bit new to have replacements keyboards floating about. Contact Asus for possible replacement under guarantee(leave out the wine bit) or contact your insurance company under accidental damage if you have it. One of those should sort you out, Asus one of the most reliable lappie makers and as such is a good choice

Or you could mention the wine to Asus and see what they say

They'll know pretty quickly it has liquid damage, the capaictors and resistors if it's got to the board will start having a nice green tinge.

:D

It just died on her, PC World (where she bought it) said they couldn't do anything for a month or so, I have dealt with Camlab before and found them excellent.  They couldn't look at it for a week, but fixed it this week.  Don't know what was wrong.

For £35 reckon the memory was probably loose, would definately have been something simple, laptop repairs are always time consuming if anything more serious.

It's shocking what these companies charge for work. If it was memory related it would've taken 5 mins to do!

I'll fix it for you! £40 + parts.

Let me know what make and model the laptop is and I'll find out how much the new keyboard is.

Its literally a 5 min job. That would be the easiest and quickest £40 ever!  ;)

What are you on about?
If you have a problem with your laptop and you take it somewhere to get it fixed.
They look at it, diagnose the problem, replace the parts, fix it.
£35 is a good deal regardless of the problem.

Someone works in the laptop repair industry!

Nope, not even close, just seemed like a rather strange rant.

Its the rate they charge which is shocking. Places like PC world charge people extorniate (sp?) rates as they know they can do it.

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If he doesn't want to pay me £40 to do it, he can send it to PC World for £90. No skin off my nose :D