Burned Out Laptop Motherboard.

[johnrm]

Sorry, I missed the statement of circumstances.
Did you try an external monitor?

[Greg2013]

Shop said they tried external monitor but I have no access to one myself.,

[ColinC]

What about plugging a telly into it? Do you have an lcd telly with a vga (blue connection) or dvi (white one)?

Is the hard drive fan not whirring at all when you turn it on?

Have you tried popping out & reseating the RAM & processor? Any series of beeps when you turn it on?

[Greg2013]

Ok not sure what fan you are referring to as a HDD does mot have a fan motor. The laptop cooling fan if that's what you mean yes is powering up ok.

How can you pop out s processor as that's soldered surely? O have swapped and reseated the two RAM chips and no diff.

I have no tv suitable either and also no lead to connect it if I had.

Dont mean to sound cranky but I am pissed off is all.

[newToBrew]

Yeah pain in the oul proverbial when these things happen alright

Best practice: don't have battery and mains ogether your always charging the battery ruins it over time - so they tell me in work anyways

Have you got a windoes disk ? If so stick it in - if machine boots from that - then my guess is the hard drives fecked - bout 50 quid would get u a new one

[ColinC]

No worries! You can usually hear a hard drive spinning and the needle moving at start up even if it has no fan.

Processors are usually held in by a clip with a heatsink fan over them. (Well the are in pc's anyway, that's what I usually have to pull apart!)

[Greg2013]

No sound from HDD needle spinning up. Tried a windows 7 disc and no flicker from screen.

[rukkus]

Sounds like the guy in the shop was correct. Best to buy new rather than pay to repair imo. You will most likely end up having to replace it eventually anyway and prices are very low at the moment.

[Greg2013]

We'll tits to that because I don't have 400 Euro to spare. Lola like I will be without a pc for the next few months at least.

[rukkus]

What were the specs of the dead one?

[johnrm]

make/model?

[Eoin]

We'll tits to that because I don't have 400 Euro to spare. Lola like I will be without a pc for the next few months at least.

I have a guy who's very cheap in Clonee, he did my tv for me, very happy with the work and very very cheap.
He has his workshop in Glasnevin,

http://www.ccelectron.ie/

He should quote you cheaper as he will actually work on a motherboard and replace chips and repair it rather than replace the whole thing if he can at all.

[Greg2013]

Dead one is a Lenovo z565/4gb ddr3 ram/ 500gb hdd/webcam/DVD drive/AMD phenom 2 quad core/1.2ghz processor.