Over the Christmas break, I decided to give Asus GL752VW another chance after all. Ordered a new motherboard from AliExpress. The only issue with it turned out to be broken DVD connector. Maybe it broke off during transit, or was that way, those are scavenged motherboards after all, with S/N erased. Not sure it’s worth messing with even as a soldering practice. DVDs are kind of obsolete anyway.
Other than that, the most difficult part was replacing the heatpipe, that goes along both CPU and GPU. Reassembled everything, and not it’s working again.
Oh, yeah, the motherboard comes without WiFi and I guess Bluetooth modules, those needs to be scavenged from the previous board. But again, luckily those are also plugable.
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