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 No.2548

Hello sushis, I need a bit of help finding a good price to resell a dysfunctional laptop for parts so my friend directed me here since I'm not very good with either software or hardware

Basically the old motherboard got power surged because my stupid ass left it charging during a thunderstorm :( I've had the motherboard swapped out for a new one for the same laptop but it still doesn't boot up at all unless the hard drive is disconnected (and the PC is obviously no use without a hard drive haha). But changing ghe hard drive didn't work either, so now I just have a laptop with a motherboard, hard drive, charger and battery which all work individually but not as a whole. (Well I can only assume the battery works anyway, I assume the power surge only wore it down a bit.)

Laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15IAU7, owned for about 20 months before all this happened. 8GB RAM 512GB hard drive, motherboard and hard drive both very newly purchased, charger is a bit older but still works fine. No damage to keyboard or screen at all, battery I assume still works though I'm unsure of its condition post-surge.

What's a good price I can sell it for parts for? I guess I can sell the old power surged motherboard too as I still have that, and I was thinking of just selling it on eBay or something but I'm open to suggestions elsewhere. I've been told I can get a deal of £200, but I want to check with you guys first :]

 No.2549

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I will sound a bit abrasive but you managed to fry a turd, especially if it's the e-waste 8 GB special.

I assume you tested the new board with the new drive (and an OS installation USB stick, the new drive is completely empty.) If not, do that. Otherwise I suspect it's exactly the battery or less likely the USB-C charger; 65 W PD chargers are 25 € cheap if you need a new one. Unplug the battery and repeat. The laptop will work with no battery while charging. Besides the drive, the RAM (unlikely, it wouldn't boot at all) and the motherboard there is not much else to it.

Part-wise: Ifixit sells brand new boards (of unknown specs) for $360. You can behave like a typical eBay user and easily flip it whole as "untested" for 350 €.

picrel ideapads are made from pure garbonium I havent seen a single one that doesn't look like this after 3 years



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