Acer Aspire x1700

[godin]

Hi,
I am thinking of bidding on this as an introduction to fixing PC motherboards.

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...84.m1438.l2649

I am currently learning laptop boards and am getting proficient at diagnosing power faults and rectifying them, BGA reballing etc. I want to get into desktops too.

Any advice on whether it might be a good start? It is dead and has been diagnosed as the motherboard being defective. Are schematics available?
Many thanks,
Robin

[jschiefer]

Re: Acer Aspire x1700

It seems kind of expensive for just a "try". Do you have a desktop computer and a spare hard drive? You could then get just a faulty motherboard and use your current build.