Laptop repair shop recommendations

Can you share the laptop model? It's hard to imagine a board repair being cheaper than replacing the board.

Its an Asus Tuf Dash FX516PR. Cheapest board available is eBay open box just under 600 dollars. I'd gladly spend 200-300 to repair it. New board will cost almost what the laptop cost - 1300.

I do a lot of laptop repair, but I doubt a repair here is feasible, what CPU is on it i7?

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Have you already contacted asus support to try and get it repaired?

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Good luck. ASUS RMA process is horrible. I love their stuff, but shite they are miserable to deal with.

I'm on the "replace" train as well, but if you are bound and determined to go with "repair" or just want a professional opinion from someone whose gone hands-on with it, try Tim's Computers on Sherwood or Computer Heaven on Oak Villa near Florida.

There’s one in Delaware I heard is pretty good

I can't replace this laptop for 500 dollars even in the used market. It was well north of 1300 dollars when it first came out in 2022. A replacement is 1500 or so. Trust me, I already bought the replacement and paid around 1300. I just want to fix it to have it as a backup for my main machine or sell it for 600 or 700 dollars. Makes no sense to repair a board on your run of the mill laptop than runs windows and office but this is a high spec gaming laptop that I use for 4k video editing for work. Board repair is a "thing" in high end laptops where the repair is cheaper than the replacement. In my case I couldn't wait on the repair so I bought another but it would make sense to repair this one if it could be repaired for 300 maybe even 400. It's a pristine laptop and never had liquid spilled on it or abused in any way. It's a shorted board, 99% certain of that. These particular laptops are known for that. Before you say why would I buy a laptop that's known for having shorted boards, every laptop has an Achilles heel. These don't fail often but when they do, it's usually a board. Usually capacitors or mosfets on the power rail. I'm not a laptop repair guy but I know my way around a multimeter and can do minor repairs on these things but I don't have the access to the parts and equipment to repair it. Watch a youtube channel called NorthridgeFix and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. I'm shipping my laptop out to them to repair it.

I get what you think you're saying. But to have me pull your stuff apart, and then solder caps or MOSFETS, when you're going to blame the repair guy for anything that ever goes wrong from now until the end of time?

If you have to use a multimeter on a laptop, and most components of a desktop, just recover the data and move on.

I honestly don't get how you can't replace it for cheaper. I buy Ultrabooks with discrete graphics every five years or so for under $1k. "Run of the mill" laptop is a Microsoft Surface Go in case of emergency ($399 assuming you have a keyboard.) If you've already had to fix a POS you bought less than two years ago twice, why are you throwing good money after bad? I have a Lenovo I haven't had to do anything with but clean the screen in years.