fix or ditch- another dead laptop(?)

PeteHerts

This happened to my mates laptop so he asked me to take a look. I stripped it down and was gonna change the motherboard but I reseated the processor and bios battery and now it works fine so I believe it was the bios battery needing reseating.

hubris

If you are going to get rid of it, at least take out the harddrive and put it into an external harddrive caddy.

chrissy3634

Hi - similar problem.
My dog jumped up at me and I dropped a coffee mug ( luckily empty) onto the laptop and now there is no power whatsoever
Don't know what to do - try to get repaired? or claim on insurance?
It cost me £600 in 2004 but it looks like new as I have looked after it well.
(Apart from dropping a mug on it and now doesn't work at all! lol)
Chrissy