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    Is it just trash now - viable to part out?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by LawyerLynn, Jan 11, 2013.

  1. LawyerLynn

    LawyerLynn Notebook Guru

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    I have a M15x, purchased in Nov. 2010 that was my baby. However, my kid spilled water on it and fried the MB (he spilled it right on the power plug port while it was plugged in and he was using it). Luckily, I had purchased a rider on my insurance for just this reason and they are replacing it with a brand new M17x R4 (yay me). I plan on taking the hard drive out of the bricked computer and putting it in my new one. But I'm wondering if it is worth spending the $400+ for a new MB and trying to rebuild it or if I should just part it out. It has the 5850 Video card and the 740qm Clarksfield processer and 6 GB 1333 RAM. I feel pretty sure that the MB is the only thing that got hosed when the water spilled on it. What do you guys think? I'd be happy to sell the whole thing (except the HDD) to anyone that wanted it, but I was also thinking of listing the parts on ebay.

    Suggestions/Ideas? :confused:
     
  2. wentalong

    wentalong Notebook Guru

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    If you travel a lot i would keep the m15x as it may be better portability wise than the m17x, otherwise i would sell it for parts but if selling on ebay EVERYTHING must be sold a untested or presumed faulty as you cant test them.

    If you do sell it for parts i will be VERY interested in buying the laptops chassis and screen chassis (without the LCD Screen in it preferably) as im looking to build a M15x ground up and your 'empty shell' is the perfect candidate :)

    Although i do live in the UK if your willing to post :p
     
  3. khetik

    khetik Notebook Deity

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    Its a risk to shell out cash for a new mobo. Cuz other parts in the laptop might me messed up as well. If you sell it as is/untested, then naturally u have to lower the price
     
  4. Daverish

    Daverish Notebook Consultant

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    The cost of replacing a motherboard for 400 vs. the slight extra gains, I feel you'd best to part out working parts (test first!!!) since the risk vs. reward is simply too low to repair it for resale.
     
  5. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    Also I believe that they will be taking the PC with them wouldn't they?
     
  6. LawyerLynn

    LawyerLynn Notebook Guru

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    No, Ins. Co. had no interest in taking the bricked PC.
     
  7. maxslo

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    Depends on how much water got inside, if i recall corectly, the CPU section is there and the RAM,
    i highly doubt the GPU could be killed as it's on other side of the laptop.
    However, if you decide to sell it, i'd be interested purchasing it whole, for parts, or repair, depends how much stuff got fried.
    i have a M15x that i could use for testing the other components ;)

    let me know if you're interested.
     
  8. tony321321

    tony321321 Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey i'm also interested in buying this to rebuild my current m15x, i've already asked to buy a screen on the parts section. it's probably not worth trying to fix, but would be great for parts is my opinion
     
  9. pranktank

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  10. Alienware-Luis_Pardo

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    I think he might just be, he's in for some heavy mods and repairs :p
     
  11. ASCI_Blue

    ASCI_Blue Notebook Consultant

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    It might not be as dead as you think. My son spilled water on my M15x as well (which I'm typing this from I might add) on the keyboard. Water had gotten pretty much everywhere including the blu-ray drive, the hard drive, keyboard of course, I'm not sure if it made it all the way to the ram/video card or not. All I had to replace was the keyboard and the hard drive. Luckily the (now) ex-wife had a spare 500 gig from an old lappy laying around and the new keyboard I found on fleabay.