by admin | Nov 8, 2026 | blog
This Xbox Series S starts every game and then, a few seconds later, drops back to the Home screen. Not one game: all of them. The owner had already done the sensible things at home, a system update and a full “Reset and remove everything”, and nothing...
by admin | Nov 8, 2026 | blog
This PS5 came to our Cambridge workshop on a Saturday evening for “just the HDMI port”. The owner had bought it second-hand, and for a while the picture had only come on when the cable was pulled out and pushed back in, sometimes a few times. On Saturday...
by admin | Nov 7, 2026 | blog
“Just the HDMI port, please. The rest is fine, it’s perfect.” Most PS5 repairs in Cambridge and Dagenham start with that sentence. This video is what we find once the console is open, filmed on our own benches: the HDMI port under the microscope,...
by admin | Nov 7, 2026 | blog
“Just the HDMI port, please. The rest is fine, it’s perfect.” We hear that about PS5s almost every week. The HDMI port is what people come in for, and when we mention a deep clean and new liquid metal while the console is open, the answer is nearly...
by admin | Nov 6, 2026 | blog
This PS5 switched on, the light came on, and that was it: no picture, no sound, nothing on the TV. It had already been to another shop for the same fault. When it reached our Cambridge workshop the outer covers were gone, screws were missing, the metal shield was...
by admin | Nov 6, 2026 | blog
A Lenovo ThinkBook 14+ came to our Mill Road drop-off in Cambridge the morning after a cup of tea went over the keyboard. The owner had done the right things: switched it off within a minute, unplugged it, and not switched it on again. Inside, the tea had still pooled...