Advice needed on repairing/buying new laptop

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OK. Now, last Friday the power supply finally stopped working on my laptop. Took it into the repair shop, they said "fine, it just needs resoldiering, £50".

Went in today, turns out that the power supply has actually snapped off the motherboard, and can't be resoldiered. So, I have to buy a new motherboard to get it working again. To my mind, I may as well get a new laptop considering what I presume the costs to be.

Questions:

1) What would the cost be of buying a new motherboard and getting it fixed?
2) All my data/documents/Football Manager saved games are still "there", right? They're not stored on the motherboard are they? Can I still get them back?
3) Would that just be a case of removing whichever PC part they're stored to and attaching it to a new laptop/PC?

I know these questions sound retarded, but I honestly no nothing about these things.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

prolly will cost you about $300 (don't know what that is UK). shouldn't affect your data. pain in the ass tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

1) possibly lots and lots and lots
2) yes
3) its called the hard drive, and yes, it's easy

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

laptop motherboards are considerably more expensive than desktop motherboards -- i was quoted at $1100 to replace my lifebook motherboard after my last spill incident. fucking gourds.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Thanks guys. PCs can support two hard drives correct? Isn't it just a open and slot process to add a new one? Or am I going to need driver disks et al?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

The former, Dom

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

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