ASUS F3H Series

[kingy17]

Hi my dad has a ASUS F3H Series laptop which the motherboard is knackered. where can i get another motherboard to replace it with to get it working again

cheers

[nano_watt]

If you are looking to learn then I would get another MB from ebay, else I would not bother you will wreck the casing whilst installing and the processor is normally soldered in and you will do it untold damage unsoldering it.
Its a no brainer m8 sell your old laptop on ebay and get some money back for the parts still working.

[ruudvandan]

although I've never replaced a motherboard in a laptop i have completely stripped one down and repaired the motherboard. one piece of advice i would give if you are changin the motherboard, mark the screw holes on the old one with a marker so you can easily find them when screwing the new board in, they're hard to find otherwise!

[kingy17]

I have been looking for a replacement motherboard but nothing it coming up on ebay besides other parts on ebay.

Can i find out the name of the motherboard?

We are guessing the motherboard has blown

[caveman_nige]

If you undo some of the screws to some of access areas of the bottom (ram cover or wifi card cover for example) you should see a part number sticker on the mainboard somewhere..

what is the actual model number of the laptop as it is printed on the bottom of the laptop?

[kingy17]

Model - F3H
MB Ver - F3H ID:1A
72N0AS089991

F3H-AP003C
Check Number:6057

This is was it says EXACTLY on the label

[kingy17]

any ideas?

[caveman_nige]

well there is little or no info on that machine...

ASUS may help tel: +44-870-120-8340 (09:00-17:00 Mon.~Fri.)

They will want your serial number etc http://support.asus.com/repair/repai...Language=en-us

They will give you a scarey price, but make sure you make a note of the part number of the replacement mainboard so that you can compare prices with other suppliers.

A good place to get laptops fixed is 'clonesuk' you will have to google them, but they are able to fix mainboards to component level a lot of the time and do hold a lot of spares... no guarantees, just an option before you sell it for scrap...