Thanks, so it sounds like board level repair for windows laptops isn't economical like it is for apple products, so it will be more expensive than a new motherboard. I guess I'll try dumping & unlocking the BIOS so that I can (hopefully) fix this unnecessary throttling. Is there anywhere on this site or elsewhere to discuss bios modding?

I made a post over on reddit about how my windows laptop only works when plugged in now, because I dropped a screw driver on the connector pins where the laptop battery plugs into, causing sparks. I put a brand new battery in but still the same result, so something on the board obviously got fried (however, there's no visible burn marks, so no clue what was affected). I honestly wouldn't care, but my laptop is power throttling even with the internal battery unplugged (turns out this is a common problem on laptops with poor batteries or missing batteries). The GPU won't go above 40W when the TDP...