May be working. Since the whole motherboard must work then it matters little that part of the board is working.
Hello everyone,I have a proplem with my laptop,whenever i switch on my laptop it stays for few minutes(3 min) and gets switched off suddenIy.I had given it to the service center for repair.They said your laptop motherboard is dead.My question is if motherboard is dead then how does the laptop gets on.Sometimes it will be on for 10-20 min also.

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