Need Help Purchasing A Laptop

That Guy · 05-14-2013, 01:27 PM

laptop motherboards aren't cheap. $100-250 depending, so you can get a new system for that.

it's probably not the bios chip, it's probably the power supply on the inside of the laptop, that tends to be a high fail item. if the northbridge etc ran superhot and the thermal transfer failed between it and the heatsink, that could cause a brick too, but it's less likely (the chip would be dead at that point) -- that happened to a laptop gpu years and years ago for me.

microcenter has a $400 15.6" dell i5 (win8) right now. office depot is still the easiest and cheap.

05-14-2013, 01:27 PM	#32
That Guy Living Legend Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: VA Age: 42 Posts: 17,620	Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop laptop motherboards aren't cheap. $100-250 depending, so you can get a new system for that. it's probably not the bios chip, it's probably the power supply on the inside of the laptop, that tends to be a high fail item. if the northbridge etc ran superhot and the thermal transfer failed between it and the heatsink, that could cause a brick too, but it's less likely (the chip would be dead at that point) -- that happened to a laptop gpu years and years ago for me. microcenter has a $400 15.6" dell i5 (win8) right now. office depot is still the easiest and cheap.

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