My laptop is dead (it is is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet it's maker (or at least it would be if HP wasn't going to charge me £250 to repair it)).
I don't really know what's wrong with it, but the screen doesn't work, and I can tell from the noises it makes that it
cannot boot at all.
Now my question: Can I salvage anything from it? It's an HP Pavillion ZD7377EA. (
Here's a link to my post where I asked about buying it, you can see the spec
there.)
Here's the parts that I think I may be able to salvage:
512MB HP proprietary RAM.
Wireless adapter (I THINK it's linksys, but I could be wrong).
Possibly the GeForce FX Go5700 with 128MB memory.
The 3.2GHz HT P4 processor (Woo! Don't they sound brilliant now in the days of multi-core!)
2.5 Inch 80GB HDD (I'm definitely keeping this for later use)
(The wireless card and possibly the graphics card are in some weird laptop form-factor that I've never encountered before. (It's PCI, Jim, but not as we know it)).
Is there anything else any of you think that I might be able to salvage? Is any of it worth selling on eBay? How could I tell what parts are broken and what parts are not? Might a geek like me have any use for many of these parts in the foreseeable future? (I decided that I'm officially a geek today after I started thinking about embedding a small PC inside my new Nissan Note)