Overheating, Freezing, and Noise: My Real Laptop Repair Journey in Dubai

About a few months ago, I began to see something strange about my laptop. It was my work mate of more than two years, and I was not expecting it to be a field of slow down, but it had become a situation of bad condition. The fan became the sound of a jet engine, the body was too hot to reach and even such isolated activity as checking emails was excruciatingly slow.

As a resident in Dubai, I cannot imagine my life even a day without my laptop because of distance work, communication, and even content creation. Failure of a machine does not only inconvenience me, it messes up my entire schedule. It was a frustrated, research, trial and, finally a resolution path. This is my true story, and how I got the life back in my dead laptop by a good technician in Dubai.

The Red Flags Were All There: My Laptop was Not Good:

The heat was the first thing I could see. The laptop used to get hot in few minutes even when performing simple browsing. Overheating would occur when we were editing videos or when we were having conferences, forcing it off. Then the freezing began. Programs would freeze, and in other cases the cursor could freeze completely.

And then there was the sound--the fan would just keep spinning away and making noises in a sheer way. It was obvious to me that something was wrong, yet I did not understand whether it was worth repairing or I needed to just purchase a new one.

To repair or to replace?

I did what everybody does, I begin to browse new laptops online. There were high prices. The cheapest good business laptop in Dubai is going to cost you AED 3,000 and will readily increase to AED 7,000. However, the purchase of a new machine implied the necessity to start almost everything again: install software, documents, passwords, applications, licenses, and run the risk of losing some data should the old machine fail completely.

The hunt to a reliable technician in Dubai:

I also heard horror stories of people bringing their laptops to any shop in Karama or Deira and they come out with more problems than they went in. I needed a professional, quick and reliable person. Then and there I discovered UAE Technician, a laptop repair Shop in Dubai that has decent reviews.

They provided mobile diagnosis, free shipping and receiving and short repair periods - exactly what I was after.

Diagnosis Day: My Laptop screwed up the day

The technician came to my house at the right time and fully equipped. He began by taking a full check up:

• The overheating was due to the fact that the thermal paste was totally dried up.
• The fan cooler was clogged with dust and did not turn properly.
• This was as a result of malware and unwanted software that had multiple background processes running thus freezing the system.
• There were too many bad sectors in the hard drive with the reason why it was responding slowly.

Honestly speaking, I was appalled by the number of minor issues that just accumulated, and none of them could been seen without opening them up and inspecting them by a professional.

The Fixing Process:

The technician interpreted everything well prior to undertaking the repair. Here is what he has done:

1. Improving the Internal: Clean and Replace the Thermal Paste:
The fan has been cleaned and new thermal paste applied on the CPU and GPU e which I hadn t done since the time of acquiring the laptop.

2. Malware elimination and Software Clean-up:
He disabled the start up processes that were not needed, performed malware checks and also streamlined the system in a way that improved performance.

3. SSD Upgrade (Optional, Recommended):
Another upgrade he recommended was the upgrade of a old HDD to a new SSD to achieve faster speed coupled with less heat. I agreed. What a price to pay an extra AED 250, but definitely worth it.

What it Cost Me:

According to what I have paid here is the breakdown:

• Internal clean up + Thermal paste: AED 150
• Cleaning up software and malware removing: AED 100
• SSD upgrade (240 GB): 250 AED
• Pickup, delivery and testing: Free
  In total: AED 500

This was not too much to pay especially compared to the cost of purchasing a new laptop at about AED 4000+. Moreover, none of my data died, and the machine seemed to be new.

Life Post the Fix:

One could feel that difference straight away. I had my fan on, my air conditioning was perfect and my apps loaded in a few seconds. Zoom calls ceased to freeze. I was able to play Photoshop, Chrome, and email without lags.

What was most important is that I was able to get peace of mind. I was no longer concerned with unexpected power cut or generous power failures during work.

Lessons learned:

• Do not push early warning away. Warning off nice, it is overheating and noise.
• Frequent repairs count. Laptops just like a car require cleaning and servicing.
• An excellent technician will save you thousands. However see that they have a certification and are experienced.
• Data security has no cost. Nevertheless, a major service should be always backed up, yet a professional like UAE Technician guarantees nothing to be lost.

Final Thoughts:

Do not abandon on your slow or noisy laptop in one go, have a second opinion. The thing is that in the majority of cases, including that with my laptop, the problem is not the computer as such but the dust or software clutter, or a minor faulty part, all of which can be overcome with little effort.

When it comes to an ease of use and speed, Dubai demands and UAE Technician makes laptop repair to be possible not only, but convenient and reliable. Be it overheating, freezing or other weird sounds, there is hardly a solution that is beyond fixing, one just needs the right hands to fix it.