Have any of you seen the Toshiba P75-A7200 on EBay for $350? The listing says it doesn't work but "has no boot and a clicking noise" . Is sounds like a hard drive problem to me, is it worth the risk of getting it and replacing the hard drive, which i would any way and with the money saved ($200) put into a good SSD? You can't find this computer for under $550 by the way.
Is It Worth the Risk?
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getochkn
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doesn't say that it boots all the way to the bios and tries to readd of the hd does it? or just doesn't work. I can't see any reasonable person who doesn't have the same idea as you and sell it fixed instead. If a $50 laptop drive would push it to a working $550+ system, I think there is probably something more worng with it.
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You have no way of knowing exactly what is wrong with it. $350 is a lot to risk on a complete unknown.
Might it be only the drive? Sure. Might it be a cooked motherboard? Yes.
If it were $50, yes, I might buy it. Might.
$350? For a known broken low-medium grade laptop? Not a chance.
Might it be only the drive? Sure. Might it be a cooked motherboard? Yes.
If it were $50, yes, I might buy it. Might.
$350? For a known broken low-medium grade laptop? Not a chance.
C12Friedman
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It does sound as though all that would be needed is a new hard drive but... in this case I imagine they are listing it "as is" which won't give you much recourse if it turns out there are other issues. It would appear to be a good deal but... Caveat Emptor!
Thanks for the input guys, I wrote the seller and his replies were quite interesting, first he said that he sent it to a repair shop and they scratched the top, tested the RAM which they thought was the problem and returned it saying that the motherboard was bad. How they scratched the computer is disturbing and why test the RAM when here is a clicking noise, after all RAM solid state which they should know. The seller also said that he does not do any kind of repairs and only sells things as he gets them. Anyway. An interesting chance.
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