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This laptop has a broken MoBo (at least the memory slots) and isn't W11 compatible.
The fault showed as a memory fault but I read that this can be caused by a flexed MoBo.
Anyway, damaged the memory holders so not a lot going for it.

Is it worth selling on eBay for bits, or should I just scrap it?

Having a big clear out and unless there is an easy win it will go to be recycled.

Cheers



Dave R
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W11 Home on Dell XPS 13 i7
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From Newsgroup: uk.comp.homebuilt

David <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:

This laptop has a broken MoBo (at least the memory slots) and isn't W11 compatible.
The fault showed as a memory fault but I read that this can be caused by a flexed MoBo.
Anyway, damaged the memory holders so not a lot going for it.

Is it worth selling on eBay for bits, or should I just scrap it?

Having a big clear out and unless there is an easy win it will go to be recycled.

I think you need to ask yourself how many people are looking for bits for a Latitude 7280, given it doesn't support W11.

eg ebay sold listings for parts: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/175673/i.html?_nkw=latitude+7280&_from=R40&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1

shows 86 sales but most are selling for a few pounds each (from which you
need to deduct postage and ebay 6% 'buyer protection' fee)

Depends if you are prepared to put the effort into listing and then posting bits for a few quid a time. Unless I had a slick process (photographing, listing, posting) I wouldn't be.

Theo
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On 29/01/2026 17:23, Theo wrote:

David <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:

This laptop has a broken MoBo (at least the memory slots) and isn't W11
compatible.
The fault showed as a memory fault but I read that this can be caused by a >> flexed MoBo.
Anyway, damaged the memory holders so not a lot going for it.

Is it worth selling on eBay for bits, or should I just scrap it?

Having a big clear out and unless there is an easy win it will go to be
recycled.

I think you need to ask yourself how many people are looking for bits for a Latitude 7280, given it doesn't support W11.

eg ebay sold listings for parts: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/175673/i.html?_nkw=latitude+7280&_from=R40&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1

shows 86 sales but most are selling for a few pounds each (from which you need to deduct postage and ebay 6% 'buyer protection' fee)

Depends if you are prepared to put the effort into listing and then posting bits for a few quid a time. Unless I had a slick process (photographing, listing, posting) I wouldn't be.

Theo

I have an ASUS P8H67 mobo here with a i5-2400 3.1 GHz processor and 16GB DDR3-1333 dram ( 4 off 4GB sticks)

The 4 onboard SATA 2 ports are defective along with the sound chip.

Its 2 onbard SATA3 ports are OK.

Given the high price of memory and processors, I'm goign to try my luck
at selling this as with a RAID card it could make someone a DIY NAS or
to experiment with Linux on or to fit some NICs and run IPCOP/Smoothwall
on it.

Or someone needs the RAM & CPU for a working mobo.....
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