I have a Leveno G700 that I bought refurbished online at the Leveno Outlet site last Feburary. I have upgraded the ram and overall, I am happy with it. This weekend it dropped on it's left side edge, where the power cord plugs in and the hard drive resides.
The power cord is bent but works, and will be replaced obviously. Everytime I grab or pick up the laptop by the lower left corner (I am a lefty) where the HD resides, the laptop reboots. Well kinda, if the battery is in, I need to take it out and take out power cord for a bit then put them back and then push power. if the battery is out, it reboots on it's own.
To replace the HD and the powercord on Amazon.com is @ $100.. A used refurb is @ $300 and a new one is @ $600. I am leaning towards the $100 solution as the worse case scenario that is my fiance has the same laptop, and the Hard Drive is an upgrade to 1TB to the stock one she has now and she will have an extra power cord.
I don't have a disk with windows 8 or 8.1, so is it hard to install that using the old HD as a boot disk or something? I have never done this, but can follow instructions.
Am I playing with fire and being cheap?
The power cord is bent but works, and will be replaced obviously. Everytime I grab or pick up the laptop by the lower left corner (I am a lefty) where the HD resides, the laptop reboots. Well kinda, if the battery is in, I need to take it out and take out power cord for a bit then put them back and then push power. if the battery is out, it reboots on it's own.
To replace the HD and the powercord on Amazon.com is @ $100.. A used refurb is @ $300 and a new one is @ $600. I am leaning towards the $100 solution as the worse case scenario that is my fiance has the same laptop, and the Hard Drive is an upgrade to 1TB to the stock one she has now and she will have an extra power cord.
I don't have a disk with windows 8 or 8.1, so is it hard to install that using the old HD as a boot disk or something? I have never done this, but can follow instructions.
Am I playing with fire and being cheap?