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| Thread ID: 72699 | 2006-09-22 23:40:00 | Laptop motherboard | george12 (7) | PC World Chat |
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| 486735 | 2006-09-22 23:40:00 | Hey guys, I recently bought a broken Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 of Trademe for $330 with the hope of a cheap fix (and how right I was) to unleash its $650 market value. Basically, it would turn off randomly when moved around, and sometimes changes in temperature would trigger it. Usually you could only get it to go for 30-50 mins at a time although it would run 24/7 if left completely alone. Google diagnosed the fault to be caused by a major design flaw in which an 80-pin connector flexes and eventually the soldering breaks off/goes dry. There was a phone number in the UK that kept popping up, a hotline that would do a free pickup and return repair of this fault. My laptop came from the UK originally, so naturally I called them. Turns out that they were able to authorise NZ toshiba to fix the laptop at no parts cost to me ($600 motherboard and $300 power supply ...), but putting the new motherboard in would incur a $168.75 labour charge (fair enough). The thing is, in disassembling the laptop enough to have a look at this connector, I had taken about everything out except the motherboard itself. Do you reckon it would be a good or bad idea to save $168 and do it myself? I've never done a motherboard transplant on a laptop before, and they won't be giving me another $600 motherboard if I kill it. Cheers George |
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| 486736 | 2006-09-22 23:43:00 | Chances are they won't sell you the parts to DIY it. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 486737 | 2006-09-22 23:45:00 | Fair point, cosidering the laptop repair company would then get nothing on it. | george12 (7) | ||
| 486738 | 2006-09-25 02:04:00 | You're correct ninja, they won't supply the free parts without me paying for the labour - so I'll pay for the labour :). I'm still getting a very good deal. |
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