[OT] My son's fried laptop

[Bob Sneidar]

I think it really comes down to the quality of the laptop components, as the prior post suggested, and particularly the display. Everything else in the laptop is not that expensive, but the display might be a higher quality. If it is just a stock LCD nothing fancy, then consider another laptop. BTW it is quite odd for a motherboard to “fry” (barring abuse) in a laptop. Power surges are usually handled fairly well by the external power supplies. Laptop power supplies can afford to drop output power because they run on batteries. I would definitely see if others with this same model are having issues. Might be a lemon. 

Bob


On Mar 15, 2014, at 13:27 , Earthednet-wp <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:

> Richmond,
> No warranty? If it were me, I'd google the laptop type for user experiences first, to see if the laptop is generally crap. Then, if the motherboard isn't more expensive than the original laptop, and you want the laptop, it might be worth it. But it's definitely a personal choice.
> Bill
> 
> William Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org
> 
>> On Mar 15, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My son's laptop stopped working about 3 months agao, after only 18 months (not good).
>> 
>> He brought it back from Germany (we having bought him a new one), having been told that
>> the Motherboard is fried.
>> 
>> Am I wasting both time thinking of having a new Motherboard installed, is that even possible in
>> a laptop?
>> 
>> Would be glad of advice.
>> 
>> Richmond.
>> 
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