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May Purchase Alienware 13 R2 with problem

by Jul 17, 2016 10:17PM PDT

I am looking (on eBay, good seller rating) at one of the top of the non OLED Alienware 13 R2 with the 965m 4GB graphics card and right now it is super cheap. The problem is (to quote the seller) the person before him accidentally broke off the part where the keyboard goes in to the motherboard.
Other than the keyboard not working, it works perfectly?

I was wondering how hard of a fix this would be? Would I have to buy a new motherboard? I see Alienware 13 motherboards for this online for about $300-400 which would still make it a very good deal. My question is, can I buy a cheaper (all of these have processors built into them) motherboard with an i5 in it and replace it with the i7 that comes with the laptop?

I have repaired and built computers before so I am not a novice to this, but I really haven't done a laptop before. I was just wondering how possible this repair is.

Thanks!

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That's why it's a deal.
by Forum moderator Jul 17, 2016 10:40PM PDT

No tech I know works on boards. The stakes are too high and you as a client would expect a fix, warranty and maybe cheap. That's why the techs I know replace the board when small parts like that break.

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I would not go through the
by Jul 19, 2016 6:07AM PDT

trouble. I would buy a new with at least a 1 year factory warranty.

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