Motherboard repair in Kilmarnock
Board-level micro-soldering for the faults other shops hand back. Written off elsewhere? Bring it in.
Some faults are not a part you can swap. A phone that will not power on at all, boots in a loop, gets hot doing nothing, will not charge no matter what port you fit, or has no signal or backlight — those are usually faults on the board itself.
This is micro-soldering: working under a microscope on components the size of a grain of sand. It is the work most repair shops do not do, which is why phones with these faults get handed back as "beyond economical repair" — that is often a statement about the shop's bench, not about your phone.
Faults we take on
- Will not power on at all, with a known-good battery and charger.
- Boot loops — the logo appears and the phone restarts over and over.
- Will not charge even after the charging port has been replaced.
- No backlight — the screen is on and responding but you can only see it in bright light.
- No signal or no service where the phone is otherwise fine.
- Overheating or draining flat while sitting doing nothing.
- Damage after a botched repair somewhere else.
How we price it
Board faults are diagnosed, not guessed. We open the phone, find what has actually failed and tell you what it will take to fix it and what it will cost. If the fault turns out not to be worth chasing on your particular phone, we will tell you that too rather than run up a bill.
Been told it is unfixable? Bring it in anyway. It costs you nothing to have us look, and a fair number of phones written off elsewhere are perfectly repairable at board level. Whatever the fault turns out to be, we will get it sorted — and you deal with us throughout, not with whoever ends up holding the soldering iron.
Common questions
What is micro-soldering?
Soldering work carried out under a microscope on the tiny components and connections of a phone's logic board. It is what lets a board fault be repaired rather than the whole board replaced, and it needs specialist equipment and a lot of practice.
Another shop said my phone is beyond repair. Is it?
Maybe, but not necessarily. Most repair shops only swap parts, so any fault that lives on the board gets described as unfixable. Bring it in and we will have a proper look before you write it off.
How much does board repair cost?
It depends on the fault, and we cannot know that until we have diagnosed it. We will tell you what it needs and what it costs before any work starts, and you decide.
Will my data survive?
Usually, because we are repairing the board rather than replacing it — which is exactly why board repair is worth it for someone who needs what is on the phone. We cannot promise it, and we do not offer a separate data recovery service.
Do you do this for tablets and consoles too?
Yes. HDMI ports on consoles are board-level work, and we do the same kind of repair on tablets.
Other repairs we do
iPhone screen repair
Cracked, black or unresponsive screens. Premium soft OLED on every model that takes one.
From £60PS5 & Xbox HDMI ports
Console powers on but no picture? We replace the port and deep clean the console while it is open.
From £55iPhone battery replacement
Genuine pulled Apple batteries on the iPhone 12 and up — every model in stock, most fitted within a couple of hours.
From £50Bring it in and we'll get it sorted
Pop into the shop on Titchfield Street, or give us a ring and we'll tell you what it needs.