Procedure undergone for refurbishing a used or returned laptop

Are you aware as to what happens when you return a defective laptop or what happens to the laptop you gave away in exchange for a new laptop? The used or defective laptop undergoes laptop recycling and comes back into the market for selling. Here the customers looking to buy second hand laptop which are usually at a discounted rate opt for such refurbished devices.

Following is the procedure that a laptop undergoes to be refurbished. The procedure undergone for mobile phone refurbishing services is somewhat similar. Let us have a step to step view of the procedure for refurbishing a laptop:

The first step towards refurbishing an old or returned laptop is sorting and grading the gadgets on the basis of their physicality and functionality. This is done by the manufacturers or authorized refurbishers. These people are the ones entitled with the role of sanitizing each and every gadget efficiently.
The sorted gadgets are then disassembled and checked for

Components that may be facing some sort of damage
Optimum functioning of the battery
Pixel quality of the screen
Whether the power supply connection is in working order or not
Loose connections
Optimum working of the hard drive and the optical drive

After a complete and thorough check for problems in the laptop, the missing or defective components like the RAM or the graphic card or may be the capacitors or IC or the hard disks are replaced.
The laptop then undergoes a data wipe that erases the complete memory of the laptop.
The cosmetic defects of the gadget also undergo repairs and the device goes in for the final testing after a new OS is installed and is then packed off in a brand new packaging

After the role of the authorized refurbisher of inspecting, cleaning, repairing and restoring the factory settings of the used or returned laptops is completed, the device is considered certifiably in good working condition and is then given back to the manufacturer or the retailer for selling it off at a discounted rate.

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