New motherboard?

Thenig

Hi All

I have a Acer Aspire 5050 Laptop which i have been told the motherboard has shorted, and i need a new motherboard. I have been quoted £150 for the board and the fitting etc. My question is it worth it, or if i could source a board, is it a difficult job to replace it myself?

Thanks for reading

Nig

culpepper

It doesnt sound like a bad price to me if it is for a brand new motherboard.They will have to refit the processor chip and I assume remove old paste from the heat sink etc which can be messy,plus they are guaranteeing the work I assume and so if anything were to go wrong, during the refitting, they will have to cover that ,while you would have to source new bits and fund any mistakes if you were to do it yourself.

totalsolutions

Motherboard has shorted, that's a new one. What's culpepper on today ? >They will have to refit the processor chip and I assume remove old paste from the heat sink etc which can be messy???? a pea sized dried paste, not very dangerous then.

What is the problem with the lappy then ?

Thenig

Hi

The laptop wasnt dropped or any liquid over it. it was on charging and it died. No lights at all, wont ever switch on. The light on the power pack dims and flashes. have tried a different power supply and the same thing happens. I thought it might be the jack, so i got a electronics guy to look at it and he diagnosed the short ( said it clicked when the power was put on it).

Sorry im not really techniqually minded.

Thanks

Nig

CHR15

By coincidence I noticed an Aspire 5051 go on ebay a couple of days ago for £114 all in (fully working).

I need a single key from a keyboard to fix an old 5051 I have laying about.

JasX

Yeah, you can pick up fully working 5050s on ebay for about that money or less, going that route you'd end up with a spare battery, power supply, spare hard drive etc etc....

£300-400 would see you for a much more powerful bog standard dell type laptop, personally I don;t think its worth it, also treat your power supply socket with care on future laptop's thhey are very prone to comming away from the motherboard with even the smallest physical trauma.

PS you seem to be able to buy the motherboard for around £80-90 but fitting them is a real pain, also involves some risk if you've not done this type of thing before

Hammyman

JasX wrote: »

PS you seem to be able to buy the motherboard for around £80-90 but fitting them is a real pain, also involves some risk if you've not done this type of thing before

Fitting them pretty much involves taking the entire thing apart until all you have left is a pile of screws, a pile of components and the plastics.

culpepper

totalsolutions wrote: »

. What's culpepper on today ? >They will have to refit the processor chip and I assume remove old paste from the heat sink etc which can be messy????
a pea sized dried paste, not very dangerous then.

Heheh !
Didn't mean it to sound like I thought it was dangerous.

:rotfl:

Thenig

Thanks everyone, think i will strip it and sell it for parts.

Nig