Close to dead R50p - worth fixing? parts worth anything?

[geedog]

Hey all,

I am a proud owner of an R50p I bought brand new back in 2003. It is a 1832-W11 which was basically bare bones with no Wifi or Bluetooth and a 60GB 4200rpm, BUT it came with the 1600x1200 UXGA screen which was awesome back then. Well worth the $1800 (!) I paid for it back then.

It has been a workhorse and I have put in Wifi, Bluetooth, 1.5GB RAM, and a 7200rpm 100GB HDD over the years. Recently, the case was finally breaking apart and the keyboard was starting to get funky and I got a new case and keyboard for $15. I thought it had a new lease on life.

Well, now it will intermittently shut down during booting. I am guessing the memory or the mobo is starting to go now and, even though I love the screen (which has faded in brightness) and a new MB is on ebay for $38 shipped, I don't know if it's worth trying to fix up. I put it on ebay last year for $80 and I got no bites.

Does anyone know if any parts in this guy are worth parting out for? I doubt(?) anyone will want the screen and I don't think that I would want to transplant the screen with it being that old to another TP, but I have seen that people have been looking for the inverter for the screen to upgrade their TPs to use with the UXGA screen.

Any info would be great. I hate to have to take this to be recycled.

[ajkula66]

You could sell the 1GB RAM module and the HDD, give away the rest for the cost of shipping. I'm certain that someone here on the forum would take it.

Market for used T4x/R5x parts is next to non-existent.

My $0.02 only...

[geedog]

Yeah, I had thought that it's pretty much worth nothing even if it was working fine. Thanks!

[pianowizard]

Selling locally on Craigslist is an option as well. Several weeks ago, I sold through Craigslist a 1GB PC2700 laptop RAM for $10. The 512MB stick may get $4. Of course I am assuming that both modules are still 100% functional, something that the OP isn't sure about. Indeed, I recently had a defective RAM stick that caused a laptop to "intermittently shut down during booting" -- have you tried whether removing one of the RAM sticks would solve this problem? But for the 100GB 7200RPM HDD, it can probably sell for much more online than locally, for ~$50 shipped versus ~$25.

Sell everything else for $10 on Craigslist, or, like ajkula66 recommended, for the cost of shipping. When advertising on Craigslist, including photos of the actual items will help you sell for more.