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Just received an email, it’s good news, no fault found and my laptop is being returned, I really hope I get it for the weekend, there’s only so much Thumb twiddling I can do! It’s seems it’s a mystery as to what happened.. This is the technicians report: I opened it up and inspected the...

Ok, so it’s 7 days since my laptop was collected. I received an email today: “We are currently processing your RMA (number *****) and we aim to dispatch your return as soon as possible. We are aware that your return has been with us for three days and we apologise for any inconvenience caused...

Just had notification that PCS have received my laptop. That’s 4 days gone since collection on Friday. No further info as yet. I’ll report any findings as I receive them.

Collected by DPD today and on its way to PCS. Still under some warranty whereby I get the labour for free but any parts I have to pay for. Told to expect a 4 week turnaround at the moment.

Thanks for your reply. I’ll do exactly as you’ve suggested and will update later.

Whilst running a game (War Thunder) on my recoil II there was a loud single pop noise from the left hand side under the keyboard, as soon as this happened the laptop shutdown immediately. It was on charge at around 50%. I removed the charger, mouse and headphones. Then restarted. It started fine...

Hi I should receive my laptop sometime tomorrow as it’s with DPD now. I just wondered as I’ve never had a SSD before: (256GB INTEL® 760p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (upto 3210MB/sR | 1315MB/sW) should I put steam on that drive or on the: 1TB SEAGATE 7mm SERIAL ATA III 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 128MB CACHE...

My circa 2012 Vortex III keeps shutting itself down randomly, I took it into a local pc repairers to get looked at, after 10 days of no contact from them I walked into the shop and took it back from them, they didn’t know what was wrong with it..possibly a component on the motherboard they said...

Just took delivery of my desktop today. As requested my 500gb hard drive has been partitioned 80gb/420gb. The only problem is the 'c' drive is only 80gb and everything is installed on there and there is nothing on the 'l' drive 420gb. So all my photos, iTunes etc will quickly fill up the 'c'...

After dissapointment with Dell being unable to supply me with an Alienware M17, I searched around and found pcspecialist, a good old Yorkshire company!. The way you can decide what goes into your choice of machine is amazing. I just hope they can give me what I want. It's ordered & currently in...