Re: Dead Laptop Motherboard, then refurbished one installed...



Yeah, I follow your suggestions. It seems that this motherboard is shot. I reassembled the board with the proper heatsink back bracket, etc, did most basic tests eliminating all possible points of failure or faultness (disconnected everything and tried different memory modules in different slots and banks, etc) to no avail....

Re: Dead Laptop Motherboard, then refurbished one installed...




It has been some time since I ordered the motherboard. I ordered it in June, but only received it at beginning of July. But then I was away for some time, and once I returned did not have time to install or test it right away. Only recently (few days ago), I went ahead and installed it.

Aliexpress only allows one to open a dispute 15 days after having received the product which is really ridiculous, especially considering that there is no manufacturing warranty whatsoever. Adding...

My venerable and old laptop (Toshiba Satellite P75-A7200 equipped with an i7-4700MQ, circa 2014) and previously a powerful machine during its heyday is no more. Have been using it for many years, but about 3 months ago it went kaputt for no apparent reason (left it on overnight [normally it goes to standby mode after some idle time], and in the morning it was cold dead with no boot, no post, no leds; nothing at all).

Since the 1990s I have been building custom desktop computers, etc; but it has been few years since my last built one and for the last 15 years I have built very few...