ASUS W2J NOTEBOOK

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I've got an Asus W2J Notebook that appeared to be overheating and I removed the cover housing the CPU and took the heatsink off removed the thermal grease and cleaned everything and applied some new thermal grease and reassembled and it worked great for several days. Well, now I can turn it on and the boot screen will show and it will sometimes even make it all the way into Windows XP but eventually the LCD screen goes blank it even does the same with an external monitor connected. The hard drive appears to be still running but eventually as aforementioned it appears that the embedded graphics no longer responds. I've tried looking for a new replacement circuit board, motherboard, and "FOXCONN" is molded on the plastic "mPGA479M" that houses the Centrino Duo T2500 socket 479 Intel CPU. I thought maybe I could buy a new and not a refurb for this and give it to my folks for use. Does anyone have any suggestions about what I could do. I really want to salvage this without too much expense. Please advise!

 

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The above is a link to a refurbished board for the W2J...

 

[jbeneast]

I've submitted a request on information for this circuit board but as of yet have no reply. Can anyone give me any leads to find what I'm looking for? I've even written the ASUS store about it, here's what they had to say:
Dear Valued Customer,



Thank you for your inquiry.



Currently the item you are requesting is not available for purchase at this time. ASUS eStore inventory is received bi-weekly and updates are posted to our site daily.



Please check our site for updates at a later time under your Model Name or Product Type.

Please contact ASUS Product Support at (888) 678-3688 to inquire about sending your unit in for repair.


Best Regards,

Kimberly D.

ASUS-eStore Customer Service Representative

812-282-2787 or 510-739-3777 Option 3