Acer laptop repairs
Screens, batteries, charging ports and board-level faults on every Acer - Aspire, Swift, Spin, TravelMate, Chromebooks, and Nitro and Predator gaming machines.
Laptop screen repair and replacement in London for all brands: cracked screens, dead pixels, lines, no picture or a failing backlight. The panel is matched to your exact model and tested before the laptop goes back.
Keys sticking, repeating or not responding? We check the fault and confirm the keyboard replacement needed for your model.
Laptop battery replacement in London for all brands: a battery that drains fast, shuts the laptop down or has started to swell. The replacement is matched to your exact model and comes with a 12-month warranty.
Professional laptop charging port repair in London - loose ports, broken pins and laptops that only charge at an angle, across all brands. We check the cause first and confirm the repair and timing for your model before you book.
Laptop storage replacement in London: a failed hard drive replaced, or a slow one upgraded to an SSD or NVMe drive. For boot failures, "no operating system" errors, clicking drives and slow start-ups. Tell us your model and we order the right drive for your visit.
Laptop RAM upgrade in London for photo and video editing, gaming, AI work and everyday multitasking. We first check whether your model takes more memory, then fit matched RAM and test it. Same day for modular RAM when we order the memory for your visit.
Laptop overheating repair in London: hot laptops, loud fans, random shutdowns and slowdowns under load. We clean the cooling system, renew the thermal paste and check the fans. Book a slot and most laptops are done in 1-2 hours.
What’s included
- Full strip-down, clean and reassembly
- Fresh thermal paste and pads where needed
- Labour by in-house technicians
- Temperatures checked under load before handover
- Up to 12-month warranty
- We never reset or wipe it without asking
Laptop diagnostics - we find the source of the problem and give you a clear quote to fix it. We test the laptop - and open it up if the fault calls for it - then tell you what is wrong, what the repair costs and what the chances of success are. You decide with the quote in hand.
Good to know: Not refunded if you decide not to go ahead.
What the assessment fee covers
- Full assessment by an in-house technician
- An honest verdict on what is wrong
- A firm price before any repair starts
- Fee credited towards the repair - you pay the balance of the quote
- No obligation to proceed
Professional laptop water damage treatment in London. Ultrasonic cleaning of liquid residue and corrosion, then a full assessment of what the liquid reached.
Good to know: Sometimes the clean alone brings it back. The fee is not refunded if the device can’t be saved.
What the cleaning fee covers
- Ultrasonic cleaning and corrosion treatment
- Full diagnostics once the board is clean
- An honest verdict on what is worth saving
- A firm price for any further repair before it starts
- No obligation to proceed
Professional laptop motherboard repair in London. Component-level diagnostics and repair using micro-soldering, thermal imaging, and advanced testing. We fix power failures, liquid damage, and component failures.
Software & Data
Assessment first: we tell you what can be recovered from your laptop, and what the recovery costs, before any recovery work starts. Failed hard drives and SSDs, liquid-damaged and physically damaged machines, encrypted systems. The data comes first, whether or not the laptop itself is worth repairing.
Good to know: If nothing can be recovered, there is nothing further to pay. The assessment fee is not refunded - it covers the work of finding out.
Malware and virus removal for laptops and PCs. We deal with slow performance, pop-up ads, strange programs and security threats by cleaning the system or reinstalling it, keeping your data where we can. Tell us the problem and how urgent it is first. Most clean-ups are ready the next day.
Clean Windows 11 installation for laptops and desktop PCs - from scratch on a new drive, or a full wipe and reinstall of a system past repairing. Drivers, updates, account setup and a few applications of your choice included. Moving your data across is quoted separately.
What’s included
- Clean install and driver setup
- Labour by in-house technicians
- Full function test before handover
- We talk you through your data before we start
Know the fault, but don’t see it listed? Tell us what’s wrong with your Acer laptop and we’ll reply with a price, or tell you if we need to see it first. Not sure what’s wrong? That’s what Diagnostics above is for.
A classroom of Chromebooks or a fleet of TravelMates? We take them in batches, with collection, return and a single invoice. Business repairs
Common Acer Repairs
What comes through the door on an Acer, and what each job actually involves.
Motherboard & board-level repair
Components replaced under a microscope instead of a quote for a whole new board - which on an Acer is often more than the machine is worth.
Screen replacement
The most common Acer job. Panels range from plain HD to 165Hz gaming, and the price follows the panel. Three checks to run first.
Charging ports & power
A socket that only works at an angle. It is soldered to the board on most Acers, which is why a lot of shops turn it away.
Battery replacement
For an Acer that dies without warning, or a swollen cell bowing the base.
Keyboard replacement
Dead or repeating keys, and full top-case replacements where the keyboard is riveted in.
Diagnostics - when it will not turn on
No power, no picture, or shutting down under load. On a budget machine this matters twice over, because it decides whether repair makes sense at all.
Nitro & Predator thermals
Strip, clean and repaste, with temperatures measured under load before and after.
Hinges & cracked cases
Common on the thinner Aspires and on school Chromebooks. Cheap early, a new lid late.
Storage, SSD & data
The cheapest way to make an older Aspire usable again, and recovery when the drive has stopped reading.
Windows & software faults
Blue screens and boot failures that are Windows, not the Aspire. A clean install puts every driver back.
Something else?
Fans, ports, casings, firmware.
Which Acer do you have?
Pick the name on the lid. It tells us which parts your machine takes and, on the cheaper ranges, whether a repair is the right call at all.
The Acer we see most, and the one where the honest answer matters most: some faults are worth fixing on an Aspire and some are not.
What We See Most Often
- Screens - the widest range of panels
- Charging port wear
- Slow on a spinning drive - an SSD, not a new laptop
Metal, thin, often touch. More is bonded and soldered than on an Aspire, so more of it is board work.
What We See Most Often
- Bonded touch assemblies
- USB-C charging circuits
- Swollen batteries lifting the trackpad
A Swift or Aspire that folds. The hinge and the display cable take the wear that folding causes.
What We See Most Often
- 360 hinge and flex cable wear
- Cracked touch glass
- Charging ports
Thermals first. A gaming Acer that throttles or shuts down is usually blocked heatsinks and spent compound, not a dying GPU.
What We See Most Often
- Throttling and shutdowns under load
- Board-level GPU and power faults
- High-refresh panels - matched, not substituted
Built to be opened, so the cheapest Acer to repair, and parts stay available years after the model has gone.
What We See Most Often
- Worn keyboards and dock-damaged ports
- Batteries at end of life across a fleet
- BIOS passwords on second-hand machines
Acer builds a large share of the Chromebooks in British schools. We repair them in batches and quote per unit.
What We See Most Often
- Screens and hinges from classroom handling
- Keyboards after spills
- Charging ports
Not listed? We still repair it - tell us what you have.
Is It Worth Repairing?
Acer builds the cheapest machines we handle, so this is a real question rather than a polite one. Here is how we answer it, before you spend anything.
We Diagnose First
The fault is identified before any figure is quoted. On a budget machine a guess is worse than useless.
We Say When It Is Not
If the repair costs more than the laptop is worth, you hear that, and you pay for the diagnosis and nothing else.
Cheap Fixes First
An SSD and a clean install turns most slow older Aspires around for a fraction of a new machine.
And When It Is
A board repair on a gaming Predator or a two-year-old Swift is usually money well spent. We will show you the arithmetic.
Nobody makes money selling somebody a repair they should not have bought. It comes back, and so does the review.
Motherboard Repair, in Plain Terms
The work other shops send to us: the board repaired at component level rather than replaced.
It Will Not Turn On
Power rails followed with a meter and a thermal camera until we find where the voltage stops.
BGA Rework
Reballing and replacing the large chips on a rework station with a controlled heat profile.
Component-Level Replacement
Capacitors, MOSFETs, voltage regulators, blown fuses.
Charging Ports
Taken off and replaced, rather than replacing the board around them.
BIOS & Firmware
Corrupted firmware and boot-locked machines. Proof of ownership required.
Corrosion Repair
Where a spill has taken out one circuit and left the rest working.
We diagnose before we quote, and quote before we touch anything.
Spilt Something on It? Do This Now
What you do in the next hour matters more than anything we can do afterwards - and on a budget machine it often decides whether repair is possible at all.
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Switch It Off Now
Hold the power button until it dies. A wet board survives being wet; it does not survive being powered while wet.
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Do Not Plug It In
Not to charge, not to test. Every check you run costs you a component.
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Bring It In Today
Upside down, lid open, charger out. Rice does nothing. Time is the only thing that helps.
The dangerous case is the one that dried out and still works - liquid keeps eating the board for weeks, so the failure turns up a month later. We strip it, clean the board ultrasonically, treat the corrosion and replace what has gone. If your files matter more than the laptop, tell us when you drop it off and we take those first.
Ways to Use Our Service
Two ways to get your Acer laptops repaired - bring it to Wimbledon, or post it from anywhere in the UK.
What We Do, How, and Why Us
Every Acer fault, from an Aspire screen to the work most shops will not take - boards repaired at component level, charging sockets re-soldered, hinges caught before they take the lid, and gaming machines stripped and repasted. One workshop in Wimbledon, and post-in from anywhere in the UK.
Diagnosis comes before a price, always. Microscopes, hot-air rework stations, a thermal camera and a meter to follow the power rails until the voltage stops. Parts are matched to the original specification and everything is tested before it goes back to you.
And because Acer machines are cheaper than most, we say when a repair is not worth it. That answer costs you the diagnosis and nothing else. It is the reason people come back with the next one.
What Customers Say
Every repair carries a warranty. These are unedited reviews left on Google and Trustpilot.
Good to Know
The questions we are asked most about Acer laptops repairs.
Not answered here? Ask us - we reply the same working day.
Is my Acer worth repairing?
Sometimes not, and we will say so. A screen or a charging port on a three-year-old Aspire usually is; a new mainboard on a budget machine usually is not. We diagnose first, show you the figure against what the laptop is worth, and you decide. If the answer is no, you pay for the diagnosis and nothing else.
Acer quoted me for a whole motherboard. Can you do better?
Usually, yes. A service centre replaces the board because that is their process; we find the component that failed and replace that one. On an Acer that difference decides whether the repair happens at all.
How long will it take?
A battery or a keyboard takes 1-3 hours when we have the part. A screen takes 1-2 hours once the part for your exact model is in, usually a couple of working days. Board-level work and liquid damage need a few days on the bench.
Have you got the part for my model?
Batteries and keyboards for the current ranges usually arrive the next day. Screens are ordered against your exact model - most in two to three working days, high-refresh gaming panels longer. For models Acer no longer supplies we use tested original parts and tell you which.
My Nitro overheats and shuts down. Is the graphics card dying?
Usually not. It is nearly always blocked heatsinks and dried-out thermal compound, and a proper strip and repaste costs a fraction of a board. We measure temperatures under load before and after.
Do you repair school Chromebooks?
Yes, and in batches. Screens, hinges, keyboards and charging ports are most of it. We quote per unit, collect and return, and invoice the school rather than asking for a card at the counter.
We have Acers across the office or the school. Do you handle that?
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. Batches, invoicing, collection and return, one point of contact. Tell us how many and what is wrong and we will come back with a per-unit price.