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Where is the best place to buy a new motherboard?

I need a new motherboard for my Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook. I can get a brand new one from Dell for about $300. Any ideas on a website or anywhere else that would be less expensive? I need a new motherboard for my Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook. I can get a brand new one from Dell for about $300. Any ideas on a website or anywhere else that would be less expensive? It wasn't due to defects, it was due to lightening and I have a lot invested in this computer. It is primarily the sound card that is integrated into the mother board and external sound card and speakers aren't an option. So the $300 to spend isn't that bad compared to what I bought it for, I was just looking for somewhere a little cheaper. Thanks

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1. Your DELL notebook has proprietary parts. So it is unlikely that you will find a suitable replacement. So GET the DELL replacement part. Good luck
2. I am not really sure, but nowadays companies try to stick their customers with their products. In other words, Dell may have done something very small which will require to only buy and use Dell products.
3. a new motherboard for $300 for an entry level machine is a rip off. Spend $200 more and get a brand new machine.
4. unless you are capable of replacing it yourself, if in fact the motherboard of a laptop is broken it is better to buy a new laptop, you can sell the old broken laptop for parts or reuse some of them but, once the mobo goes soon there will be other problems, keyboard, batterry hard drive
5. Ebay
6. Save the hard drive, sell the parts on eBay, and buy yourself a new notebook. Your motherboard may have not been the only thing that was ruined. Once you install the motherboard, you might find out you have other problems. Does the motherboard come with the video chipsset, memory, and anything else that may have been damaged in the process? It's just too much trouble. I would just cut your losses, get the new machine, and see if you can recover the data off the old HDD-- assuming it wasn't damaged as well. If you have a desktop, and willing to invest $10 into a 2.5 to 3.5 cable, you can mount the HDD as another drive and copy and paste all the files/folders onto your desktop. From there, burn those files onto a CD to organize back onto your new system. *smiles* Hope that helped. Below is a link to what you would be looking for in regards to mounting your HDD under your desktop system. Scroll down until you get to 2.5" to 3.5" Hard Drive Adapter . . . that will save you a hundred bucks or more if you were considering taking it to a data recovery center.