What? So I was a little bored...

Tired as hell, finished all of my finals, and relaxing the late night away having fun with my laptop. Since I have yet to take the entire thing apart, I decided what better time than right now?

About 4 months ago, I acquired a NIB replacement motherboard for my Lenovo C100 laptop off ebay for 1 buck + shipping. Saw the deal, no other bidder so I picked it up. If anything I could keep it around for spare parts, or maybe turn it into a mini PC or sorts. Well the PC idea didn't take off too well since something not connected to the bare motherboard made it not want to boot. Could have been the touchpad, no idea. I just decided to keep it on the shelf as a cheap spare part in my slowly growing collection of laptop parts.

Fast forward to tonight. Since I purchased the replacement board, I have not been able to fully test it. I wanted to make sure that if the time ever came where a hardware issue was at fault, I knew that board was a good part. So I picked tonight as the night to completely tear down my 4 month old laptop and swap boards. Might as well pick now during winter break to update the BIOS on the old board, and charge up the onboard backup battery.

So many screws Luckily most fall into 3 sizes, with each screw hole labeled as to what size went in that location. So getting everything back together was no problem. Once I got the minimal amount of the laptop back together, fired her up and she worked great on the first try. True to the ebay sellers word, this was a NIB board. No model or serial number programmed into the board, stock 1.00A BIOS (new is 1.04), and oddly enough has a onboard lan post-bios message thing. Might be some bootrom hidden from normal users, but whatever the case the mission was a success.

 

Thats not bad at all. Glad to hear it works!

Also, Now you learned a bit more that you might not of known before about laptop motherboards.

 

All my previous laptop repair work had been limited to the units themselves, and not replacing huge parts like the main board. Its amazing the level that you need to tear down a laptop to, to get the board out.