£300 to replace laptop motherboard..

schoolrunmum

Does this sound about right or are they taking the pi55??? £300 to replace mainboard in a 2 year old Packard-Bell lappy....

KillerWatt

£300 for a laptop motherboard sounds quite reasonable to me, although I wouldn't contemplate spending anywhere near that much on a 2 year old machine.

billy_the_kid_2

Sounds like the machines a write off for that sort of money.

jd87

Nobody ever replaces a laptop motherboard. When you need to do that you just buy a new one.

Spank

jd87 wrote: »

Nobody ever replaces a laptop motherboard. When you need to do that you just buy a new one.

You do if it's a high end gaming machine & it failed, but I doubt the OP's is.

How much did you pay for the machine 2 years ago schoolrunmum?

schoolrunmum

No,it's def not worth it, I already replaced the hard drive last year, £200,and it's not a gaming machine, just a cheapy laptop. Just cheesed off as all my photos are still on it....

KillerWatt

schoolrunmum wrote: »

No,it's def not worth it, I already replaced the hard drive last year, £200,and it's not a gaming machine, just a cheapy laptop. Just cheesed off as all my photos are still on it....

Your photo's are still on it, they are on the hard drive.

CHR15

I hope you didn't mean you paid £200 to change the hard drive!!

photodgm

You should be able to remove the hard drive put it into an external usb caddy and plug into another computer.

schoolrunmum

Yes but the machine won't switch on to get them off onto a memory stick..

schoolrunmum

CHR15 wrote: »

I hope you didn't mean you paid £200 to change the hard drive!!

Oh yes,was I ripped off then??