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So recently my son was playing in my room and he ranked my headphone out of my 3.5mm audio input that was plugged into my gaming laptop. I discovered it was broken. I took it to microcenter for a quote on a repair. The technician determined the headphone completely broke off from the motherboard and that I would need to replace the ENTIRE motherboard to fix the problem. He then quoted me the price for the motherboard and he told me it would be $1.200!!! The Whole laptop sold for $1600. He said the price comes directly from MSI. I'm going to call them tomorrow and give them a ear full. But in the meantime I was looking to her advice and opinions of this from the LTT community. Is this quote real? Or am I being ripped off? I was under the assumption that I could buy another audio jack and have it soldered on at worst. I know I can just be a USB adapter but I hate having my equipment broken in anyway.

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It depends on what is all permanently soldered onto the motherboard. If there is nothing modular, you will get a nearly full new laptop in regard of the parts... 

 

So the price could very well be correct.

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

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13 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

It depends on what is all permanently soldered onto the motherboard. If there is nothing modular, you will get a nearly full new laptop in regard of the parts... 

 

So the price could very well be correct.

I see, but in theory should they not be able to just solder a new audio jack onto the motherboard? I supposed if it actually snapped the motherboard itself than no. But if that happened wouldn't there be bigger issues?

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12 minutes ago, Brama said:

I see, but in theory should they not be able to just solder a new audio jack onto the motherboard? I supposed if it actually snapped the motherboard itself than no. But if that happened wouldn't there be bigger issues?

If only the pins broke off, sure then it is just a soldering job, if it broke off a part of the pcb, then it needs to get changed. And no, depending on which part you snap off from the pcb, the rest may still work in perfect order.

 

As for example the current intel or threadripper sockets. some of those pins don't have any use right now, so if one with no use brakes off, all is still well.

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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7 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

If only the pins broke off, sure then it is just a soldering job, if it broke off a part of the pcb, then it needs to get changed. And no, depending on which part you snap off from the pcb, the rest may still work in perfect order.

 

As for example the current intel or threadripper sockets. some of those pins don't have any use right now, so if one with no use brakes off, all is still well.

Correct me if i'm wrong but wouldn't something like this work 

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