Hey all, I have an Acer Aspire 9802. Unfortunately the graphics chip has burnt out. Don't know how but I need to replace the whole motherboard. Acer said this would cost £300 plus. I was thinking that I might be able to find a motherboard replacement for cheaper rather than sending it away and paying a lot of money for it, and just fit it myself. I know that you can get laptops for pretty much £300 these days but I would still like to get it fixed, as it has a 21 inch screen and it cost £1200 originally, and it's only 3 years old. I have these questions:
1. Get the original motherboard for the laptop? (if anyone has any good sites with proper Acer parts where I might get this)
2. Is it possible to get a replacement motherboard from a newer version of the laptop (9920, I think) and fit it and would it work? So replacing and upgrading at the same time?
Any ideas? Has anyone done this?
Aspire 9802 replacement motherboard
Discussion in 'Acer' started by billythetidd, Jun 9, 2009.