Clevo M860TU boot issue - static damage?

Hello guys,
It happened that I de-assamled my laptop to check sg and after re-assambled it,it doesn`t boot up now. It is at the repair centre for a week now, but they are so useless and hard to get in touch with them,as usual. Respect to the ones are not like this. Since last monday they`ve told me 3 times it`s working but never said if I can pick it up and so on and so on.....
So today finally somebody started to do sg on it and told me he suspects static damage. Is there a way to recover from static damage?
Thanks

 

hi and welcome to nbr
who is reparing your laptop? is it a general shop or a clevo repair centre.

im no expert but when ever you do major repair in a laptop its first worth holding power button down for 15 seconds to dispel any charge and also worth using a antistatic wrist strap. bit late now i know but worth mentioning for the future.

depending how much your repairer is going to charge i would take a look here > fixed price, no fix no fee, component level laptop repair only [fixed price, no fix no fee, comp] - 99.00 : clevoweb, the one stop source for all clevo and clevo brankded product spares and repairs
i have no idea what this company is like but at least they deal with high powered clevo laptops not like your high street pc world butchers and rip of merchants.

 

Thanks MrDj,
I`ll keep in mind for the future. Unfortunately didn`t wear antistatic strap on my wrist. My laptop is in a local repair centre,not high street one, neither an official clevo.
It is really nice that some1 bothers my problem,however you really didn`t answer my quastion, if is it possible to repair a static damage, or is it final?
Thanks for any effort...

 

i have no idea mate. it depends what the static damaged. most prob motherboard and if so can be expensive but im no expert so dont know if it would be repairable.

 

If it is actually static damage, then no, it's probably not possible to "repair" it. Usually you'd have to replace the whole part that was damaged, if you can trace it down. Static damage is only rarely catastrophic (meaning that the part fails immediately), rather it usually causes a part to fail more quickly over time.

 

this is an interesting topic....static damage...being winter where I live now, I have occasionally gave my P170hm a small shock here and there...like on the corner of the base, or even on the top of the screen when trying to close the lid....nothing ever happened, but I do wonder what the effect of these are if anything...
I do as a general rule try to be mindful about discharging that against something else, unpainted metal or similar, before touching my comp, but still...

 

Part of the required testing for CE certification is an ESD test. The equipment is subjected to static discharges at various points, and it not only has to survive, it has to actually keep on operating as well. This means that completed products have to be pretty much immune to ESD or they can't be sold at all.

Static damage is, however, a very real possibility the moment you remove a cover and expose the internal PCB. As mentioned above, it doesn't always result in immediate failure, but it can cause damage which leads to failure some time later. Prior mistreatment is often the reason why components "just fail" at some time later on. You don't even have to touch a component to damage it with static - just waving a hand near it can result in a harmful discharge.

You'd be amazed how many technicians, enthusiasts and other electronics professionals don't know this - or even flat out refuse to believe it's true.

ESD damage cannot be repaired, the damaged components have to be replaced. Typically the most sensitive components are the ones with the smallest feature sizes, and that means the memory and processors.

 

Well,today officially been told after a week hassel that the motherboard been give up.Fortunately the UK based Clevo can deliver a replacement for £174 plus vat,whith free shipping. End of story. Thanks for the advises.

 

Wish you had posted here before sending the system away. There are few tricks to recover from "static damage" even though I doubt it was statics...

 

became a victim of winter static myself....first time i ever damaged a device .... of course my luck it happens at my work office desk and not on the couch or bed at home DOH!!
fried all the USB ports on the left side of my w150hnq. haven't had a chance to test esata but my hdmi, lan, and vga all working

 

What do you mean? I am very interested now,please do not let this hang here without explaining it.Yhanks.

 

I mean, you could try a power drain and CMOS/BIOS reset. If that doesn't help, you could also try opening the system and reseating every cable and device. That's for starters.

 

Yeah, the tech is no longer as sturdy it used to be, lol