Laptop died, anyone good with hardware?

[Tellos Athenaios]

If something has shorted on the motherboard then you are pretty much out of options. Laptops do not lend themselves to swapping motherboards -even if you have the technical skill to do that:

1. the motherboard is unlikely to be sold to customers as retail item;
2. even if you do find a (different model) replacement motherboard you will likely find that the layout is all wrong for your case or
3. that the socket type is wrong and requires a different CPU, or
4. that you own a DDR2 laptop and the new motherboard is for DDR3, or
5. that the thermal design of the motherboard does not at all work right for your laptop, or
6. that you didn't have a dedicated graphics chip but rather an integrated one with dedicated memory or something to that effect and your new motherboard has a different configuration (purely integrated graphics/purely discrete/ or both).

So even if by a miracle all those things do work out you are likely to spend less on a brand new replacement laptop -- especially if you can `save' a few components like hard disk (OS/files), network card, (and less likely: RAM).