Help Please....

sanora

My 2 year old HP Laptop ComPaq nx6325 stopped working recently. My local repair shop advised that it was my mother board and it was uneconomical to fix it as it would cost me around £199 to fix.

So is that it, scrap?

fwor

Much depends on whether they are correct in their diagnosis. If so, a genuine replacement HP motherboard may well be £200 when labour is included.

However, replacement with an alternative, similar one Abit, MSI, Gigabyte or any of a host of alternative suppliers ~should~ be cheaper if they choose one that re-uses all the parts from the HP one.

But it's equally likely that something simpler is wrong with it...

[Oops... it's a laptop! ignore the bit about alternative motherboards! It may still be something simpler. I have a HP/compaq which appeared to have a faulty mobo, but in fact it was just the hard disk, which cost £30 to replace.]

Domokun

Drop it into another, independent, repair shop for a quote, and see if they find the same problem?

vyseyboy

When you say it stopped working, what exactly were the symptoms? Is the DC power jack loose by any chance? Also, have you tried it with the DC power jack plugged in and the battery removed? Sometimes a faulty battery can make the lappy not power on, even if the DC power is being used.

Maybe they were right in their diagnosis, but quite possibly not.