Kenmcfa

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)

TheMatt

The Graphics card is the only thing you won't be able to save that you listed. Everything else should be an industry standard so you can transplant it.

You can use the hard drive in a desktop with an adapter. With the RAM you can put it in a laptop that also takes the same RAM (not sure if that laptop has DDR2 or DDR RAM).

The wireless adapter you *might* be able to use in a desktop with a special adapter, but its probably going to be very hard to find this adapter (PCI to Mini-PCI).

The processor depending on the socket might work on a Socket 478 board. If it is socket 479, socket M, or any other laptop socket, you can't use it.