saw this in a magazine several years ago. am thinking about doing it to my acer.

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2004-10/...digital-jukebox

 

There is no personal information on a laptop with no harddrive.

 

With a dead motherboard, I don't think there's much to be done besides something like picking up a used model with a broken display but otherwise working off ebay.

 

thanks for the (funny) advices.
CU9K, yeah, it's an HP. First the Wifi died, then the Mobo died.

 

Yeah, some of the HP models from 2-3 years ago had chronic video/motherboard related overheat issues. Shit kept frying.

 

good point, i was thinking he was gonna sell it as a whole

 

what about the HP models from 1-2 years ago?

I've got a pavillion dv6000

 

I think you're fine. I usually like HP, but the ones from about 2 1/2 years ago had an issue with (this is to the best of my memory, I cannot verify this 100%) the gpu getting overheated on the motherboard, due to the cpu and the gpu being too close in proximity, and there was inadequate cooling for it.

You should be fine.

To paint you a picture of how frequent the issue was though, I had an HP tablet pc from 2 1/2 years ago, and two friends of mine had other HPs from within a month or two of each other. All of our computers had issues with overheating, both of theirs had their GPUs fried twice.

 

[QUOTE=S2020,Nov 15 2009, 10:57 AM] thanks for the (funny) advices.
CU9K, yeah, it's an HP.