Originally Posted by airborne_artist
Not sure that the extended warranty would have I'm guessing that a motherboard would cost than £30-90 second hand. Fitting it should be fairly easy, and a local PC repair guy would do that for £40 or less.
Easy? Well, if you can call dismantling and putting together the whole of a laptop (save the screen) easy, then you're one dexterious person, esp. if it's the first of the kind for you.
I's strongly suggest you move your intact screen (?) to one that's been dropped with an broken screen. The hard drive you'll have as ready well, if that other laptop was on when it fell. Operating on the screen panel is ten times easier than on the system part.