You're talking anywhere between £100 - £200 for a new motherboard, to be fair another £100 and he can have a brand new laptop.

i know and thats why im not bothering with it, its not mine so its no issue to me but it is to him but he'll learn from his mistakes, thing is all it needed was a re-paste and a clean, the fan outlet was fully blocked with fluff and had bakes the thermal paste that was why it was shutting down on him.

as far as laptops go to disassemble its an easy one, not like some of the asus and acer ones with 3 layers in them. if only he'd waited and brought it to me he wouldnt be up shit creak and would have a perfectly fine laptop.

i found out why he tried to update the bios though, seems he thought there might be more options in a newer bios and hoped there would be a fan option, silly boy..

so from a laptop needing a clean and paste to having a doorstep.

im still going to keep an eye out on ebay for a broken one (screen) and hope i can get it cheap, otherwise it will be probably sold for spares in bits on ebay.