can my laptop be saved

so my laptop... same as this one --> https://www.amazon.com …1080-Gaming/dp/B00TZ7SDVC

Nothing crazy special , but not too shabby either , i dont think
i'm no pc gamer , but i use it for photo and video editing and figured a gaming laptop would probably have a better gpu than "regular" laptop


battery went bad, so i changed it .. wasnt exactly easy as you have to open up the whole laptop to do so.. what a PITA that was..
noticed one of the fans stopped working .. but i just let it stay like that for a while , then i decided i'd open it back up and see if maybe some wire for that fan was not connected.. something touched something sparks flew , i threw up a white flag and took it to microcenter the next day

so they said mother board issues..

i kinda screwed the motherboard a little .. basically the point where the display gets connected is no good ..

however , the hdmi out is good.. so i can still use it , with a monitor.. well, better than a total loss right?

however it was also severlly infected with malware,spyware viruses what ever .. it was pretty bad , what was once a peppy laptop was slower than my $250 toshiba laptop
tried kaspersky.. which made it better but than full of error messages ..
read that some times these viruses or whatever screw up registry and things will never run the same

so time for a fresh re-install of windows 10... halfway in through the process and the hdmi out is no longer working.. i suppose its a feature that probably is disabled or a driver has to be reinstalled for that feature to work again.. either way at this point i'v got myself a $1200 paper weight..

what are my options here if any.?
quick searches online show mother boards for this laptop at around $450.. plus labor to install..doesnt really seem worth it to me.. at this point i wouldnt mind so much for now to use it with an external montior ..
is it possible to remove hardrive , put in my desktop , intstall windows 10 plus what ever video related drivers to get hdmi out to work again, then put harddrive back in laptop?

any suggestions?

if its just the cable connecting the mobo and the monitor that got damaged you may be able to find either a replacement cable or an entire new monitor on Amazon or ebay and fix it yourself but if its something that is soldered onto the mobo... not sure how easy or if its even possible to replace the entire mobo on a laptop

for the malware that your laptop got infected with, try Combofix and Malwarebytes.
both of them should be able to remove most if not all of the crap that your laptop got infected with.
Kaspersky was great like ten years ago...

Do a search for a similar failure on that same machine.

There is a great Fix It yourself site for macs (www.ifixit.com) but I haver not seen similar for windows machines.

Mike

plenty of them on Youtube

Also most Windows users know how to fix their own computers

rantercsr wrote in post #18154341
is it possible to remove hardrive , put in my desktop , intstall windows 10 plus what ever video related drivers to get hdmi out to work again, then put harddrive back in laptop?

no harm in trying this, just make sure the original drives in the desktop are disconnected for the duration...

that won't help.
I believe it has something to do with BIOS, not sure, but I have replaced motherboards before and had to reinstall windows each time.
So installing windows on the same hdd in another machine and put the hdd back into the laptop wont work

FuturamaJSP wrote in post #18156466
Also most Windows users know how to fix their own computers

LOL! Statistically no.