Laptop damage repair costs

Hemi300c

Hemi300c

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So a friends laptop wouldn't charge and was dead. It was bought 3rd Feb 2025.
I advised against the shop, due to hearing negative service reports, but they went ahead anyway.
Laptop as follows:-
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The repair quote was as follows:-
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Picture of damage they say was lightning:-
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What are your thought's and comments please

Thanks
 
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If the mobo has gone, its cheaper normally to get a new laptop.

Your best bet is to find one of those techies who like soldering and microscopes and see if they can fix the board. But that is perhaps 15%-20% chance. Though I think they could fix that...
 
Typically it's not economically viable to replace the motherboard.. but these okes asking 40k for just a motherboard is pulling a fast one.. the motherboard from Lenovo is 18k, cheaper depending on the exact one needed and 8k from AliExpress or eBay..

Lenovo even provides step-by-step guides for self repair of their laptops in addition to selling(US site at least) pretty much all the parts you could need..
 
Looks like Evetech quote. Only buy laptops that have onsite warranty directly with supplier. Although look at that quote, why dont you send it in under warranty? That is what it is there for. Deal directly with Lenovo?
 
RedViking said:
Looks like Evetech quote. Only buy laptops that have onsite warranty directly with supplier.

Although look at that quote, why dont you send it in under warranty? That is what it is there for.
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You know what your eyes are there for..?

Reading..

If you read the OP post, they cite lightning damage as the cause and that's not covered under warranty..
 
doesn't lightning first take out the charger then the laptop? and if it was that strong, wouldn't it have caused more damage than just one tiny component? I'm trying to understand how they can rule it as lightning and not just a component failure? How would you tell the 2 apart?
 
WAslayer said:
You know what your eyes are there for..?

Reading..

If you read the OP post, they cite lightning damage as the cause and that's not covered under warranty..
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Calm down. How would lightning get to the laptop. No man, this is common from those people. They lightning damage everything. If they dealt directly with Lenovo it would probably have been sorted asap.
 
neoprema said:
doesn't lightning first take out the charger then the laptop? and if it was that strong, wouldn't it have caused more damage than just one tiny component? I'm trying to understand how they can rule it as lightning and not just a component failure? How would you tell the 2 apart?
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I'm interested to know if that laptop was sent back to the shop or did it go directly to Lenovo. If it went directly to the shop then it wont surprise me.
 
WAslayer said:
You know what your eyes are there for..?

Reading..

If you read the OP post, they cite lightning damage as the cause and that's not covered under warranty..
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There is no way to determine that based on that picture.

And this sounds like the dealer trying to make a buck on something the distributor probably isn’t even aware of.

As in no warranty claim was made.
 
neoprema said:
doesn't lightning first take out the charger then the laptop? and if it was that strong, wouldn't it have caused more damage than just one tiny component? I'm trying to understand how they can rule it as lightning and not just a component failure? How would you tell the 2 apart?
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Exactly.

Lightning isn’t going to pop one little component, it’s going to leave very obvious massive damage.

Take it back and send it directly to Lenovo…unless of course the shop in question was selling a grey import unit and that’s why they are trying to cover it “internally”.
 
SauRoNZA said:
There is no way to determine that based on that picture.

And this sounds like the dealer trying to make a buck on something the distributor probably isn’t even aware of.

As in no warranty claim was made.
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Look at the replacement quote. What a bunch of scum criminals. Makes me sick.

I really hope that is not directly dealing with Lenovo, but that computer company. If it is Lenovo I would not want to support them anymore.
 
neoprema said:
doesn't lightning first take out the charger then the laptop? and if it was that strong, wouldn't it have caused more damage than just one tiny component? I'm trying to understand how they can rule it as lightning and not just a component failure? How would you tell the 2 apart?
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This is exactly my thoughts.

IMO Looks like they do just lightning damage everything to get out of repairs under warranty as stated by a member above.
 
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