Should I keep a Dead Toshiba Lap Top?

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Laptop + Wine=Dead Laptop. I have a 6 month old Toshiba with a T6600 new 16 inch screen etc. Is there a chance in hell of finding a motherboard for a price worth paying? The lappy was $650.00 on sale and I don't want to pay $350.00 for a new mb.
Anyone have any ideas on a source or should I just pull the memory, the cpu, and trash the rest?
 
Strip out and save the LCD, (for a future mod maybe), strip out the ram, cpu, battery, and HD, then chunk the rest. It is really hard to find a replacement laptop mobo for for a reasonable price.
 
GORANKAR said:
Spilling wine into a laptop voids most warranties that I have seen.
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Most, but not all. Read all the fine print, then when it says you're screwed..........strip out the good parts and start a FS thread. ;)

That's the problem with a lot of electronics........most of the time the pricing makes it easier to replace it than fix it.
 
Monkey34 said:
Most, but not all. Read all the fine print, then when it says you're screwed..........strip out the good parts and start a FS thread. ;)

That's the problem with a lot of electronics........most of the time the pricing makes it easier to replace it than fix it.
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Tell me about it. That's part of the reason that the TV and electronics repairman has all but disappeared. Then, when an old $1500 VCR broke a belt, you paid $75 and had it fixed. Now, when a $50 VCR stops working, or just no longer matches your new entertainment center you toss it out and buy a new one.

We live in a disposable world.
 
You can always sell it with "water damage" on ebay and someone will buy it.
 
Part it out?

I wouldn't bother fixing it. Just figure out the model of the motherboard and search google or ebay, decide if it's worth it, profit?
 
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