Laptop Parts Question
theherbalbody:
I sent my notebook to Sony for repair and they said that I needed a new motherboard, which costs $1400. I may as well get a new one for this amount.
My question is this: what parts are salvageable in the notebook other than the memory modules and the dvd/cd drive?
Ayslhyn:
Nothing. Junk it.
angelyne:
Depends on how old your laptop is. Unless it's fairly new chances are that nothing in it will be compatible with a new laptop.
However, you should investigate things a little further and see if you can buy a replacement motherboard on ebay. You might be surprised at how cheaply you could one.
Of course you'll have to do the install yourself, but it's not that hard really. If Sony is anything like Dell, they have complete and detailed instructions online. And even if you can't find instructions, it's just a question of taking things apart carefully and taking notes (or pictures) so that you know how to put it back together.
J. M. Pescado:
Sony laptops are crap. You can definitely steal the hard drive and possibly the RAMs. The hard drives should definitely work, but you may need adapters if you want to hook it up to a desktop machine. The RAMs may also work, if the computer is not too old.
KatEnigma:
For use by you? Probably nothing much, possibly not even the RAM. For selling to others on Ebay? I made something like $500 selling off parts of my old Dell, and it had a dead Hard Drive and the power connector had completely broken off the mobo. The keyboard was also missing keys. I sold the screen, RAM, battery, ac adaptor, dvd drive, and fully-disclosed broken mobo. Vaio screens are known for dying, so you could get quite a bit for it, alone. Selling the pieces was much more profitable than selling it as a whole would have been.
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