Darwin Service
Laptop Repair Darwin
Screen, battery, charging port, liquid damage, motherboard, and component-level laptop board repair — Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Acer, MSI, and MacBook — from our Winnellie workshop.
Laptops that "won't turn on", run hot, eat batteries, refuse to charge, or have a flickering / cracked screen are bread-and-butter work for us. Where the failure is a discrete part — battery, charging port, screen, fan, SSD — we replace it. Where the board itself is the problem we work at the component level: blown charging-IC, dead power rail, shorted USB-C VBUS, popped capacitor.
That matters because most Darwin shops will tell you a board-level fault means a new laptop. Often it doesn't. A blown $2 component on a working $1500 laptop is worth chasing — and if it isn't, we say so honestly and lay out a sensible replacement path with your data preserved.
Service scope
Hardware, board, software, and data — the whole laptop, not just the easy bits.
Screen, Hinge & Chassis
- Cracked, black, or backlight-failed screen replacement — LCD, LED, and OLED panels
- Flickering screen, lines, or dim display diagnosis — panel, cable, or board fault
- Hinge repair and replacement — including the common "lid cracking near the hinge" failure
- Touchscreen and digitiser replacement on convertible / 2-in-1 laptops
- Keyboard, palmrest, and bezel replacement
Charging Port & Battery
- USB-C and barrel-jack charging port replacement (re-soldered, not glued)
- Battery replacement with quality cells — not the cheapest eBay pack
- "Plugged in, not charging" diagnosis — charging IC, EC, or battery-gas-gauge fault
- MacBook charging-circuit and USB-C controller repair where economic
- Power-adapter testing and replacement where the brick is the actual fault
Motherboard & Component Repair
- Won't power on, fans don't spin, no charge light — full power-up sequence trace
- Liquid-damaged board recovery: ultrasonic clean, oxidation removal, component replacement
- Blown MOSFETs, popped capacitors, dead power rails — component-level rework
- BGA reflow / reball where the GPU or PCH is the suspect (with proper preheat and profile)
- Repair-vs-replace honesty: when board repair isn't economic we say so
Liquid & Heat Damage
- Coffee, water, beer, salt-water spills — the sooner you bring it in, the better the recovery odds
- Tropical humidity damage on boards that have been stored badly
- Heat damage repair — thermal repaste, fan replacement, heatsink mount restoration
- Sticky-key and corroded-keyboard replacement after a spill
Speed, Storage & Cleanup
- SSD upgrade from spinning HDD — usually the biggest single perceived-speed jump
- RAM upgrade where the platform supports it
- Windows reinstall, bloatware removal, and proper driver install — with data preserved
- Virus and malware removal, browser-hijack cleanup, ransomware triage
- Windows-to-Linux migration for older laptops still worth saving
Data & Aftercare
- Data recovery from failing drives — see data recovery for the full scope
- Migration of files, settings, browser data, and Outlook / Thunderbird to the repaired or replacement machine
- Backup setup so the next failure isn't a data-loss event
- Encryption setup — BitLocker, FileVault, LUKS — on machines that travel
Before you bring it in
Don't keep trying to power it on if liquid damage is suspected. Every attempt risks shorting more components against a wet board. Power it off, leave it alone, and bring it in.
Free initial consultation by phone or at our Winnellie workshop. Clear scope and cost before any chargeable work begins.