I won the auction last week on the used motherboard that I needed to fix my "old" laptop. I hated to just dump it as it is still a very usable laptop, but IBM wanted $800 for a new motherboard.
I ended up paying $200 for the board through the Ebay auction and it arrived today. I had to move the processor from the broken board to the "new" one. It's been several months since I took it all apart, but fortunately I was able to remember how it went back together.
I got all the parts back where they belong and I'll be darned if it isn't working!
Yay!
$200 turned a worthless brick back into a usable laptop computer again!