Any chance to find a T510 motherboard?

My gf was travelling with her new T510 and looks like it may been burned, blank screen, no beeps, and it gets HOT... I won't be able to see it till late August, but I'm getting ready for the worst for system board replacement.

It's a pretty new model, so I guess there is no demand yet for this kind parts.

Anyone knows if I could order a new T510 systemboard somewhere? How much should I expect to be? $300-$350?

Yes, it's still under the warranty, however I poured some silicone on trying to get rid of the famous whine/high pitch noise (didn't help btw) and I'm not sure if I'll be able to take it out w/o damaging anything....

Thank you in advance...

 

The T510 is so new, finding an aftermarket or used board is probably a tall order.

 

poured some silicone on (please elaborate)? maybe that is what is causing the whole problem.

does your T510 use the nvidia or intel gpu?

A new T510 motherboard is around 700 to 900 dollars, you will have to wait to end of the year to find any used motherboards.

 

It's Intel.

I doubt it's the silicone the cause. I did some stress test and monitored the temperatures all was fine. I guess I'll have to pray that I can take it out...easily.

I suspect that my gf put it in her backpack and laptop woke up and overheated.... She didn't use it much and most of the time laptop was kept in backpack... it just happened suddenly.

$900 ? really? I paid like $1100 for it... not fun... not fun.

Thanks for your replies.

 

probably would have been better that you did not do the DIY silicone fix. New motherboards are never cheap from manufacturers.

 

probably, but at that time I was desperate, Lenovo service couldn't fix high pitch noise and I couldn't stand it. They said it's a normal sound. Eventually I fixed it using Thorttle stop app, that disables some CPU C states.

 

It'd be hard to fry a Thinkpad mobo by idling in a bag. Thinkpads crash if they get to the point of overheating (not just the usual crash, as I always thought, but based on one of the Lenovoblogs apparently it's a crash by design), and idling in a bag would be a slow enough build up of heat that it would definitely crash before there was any burning.

 

Thanks. It's good to know.