Repair Lenovo or buy new? if so which?

[Benny144]

So a few months ago I knocked a drink over on my Lenovo Flex-2 14". It worked fine for the rest of the night but the morning after would not display to the monitor, the lights come on but the boot beep doesn't sound and the screen seems to get no input (not a black screen, just that weird grey color of the screen being off).
So I pulled the hard drive out and built it into a new desktop PC as I didn't think I needed a laptop really.
But since then I've realized that a laptop was quite useful (taking documents easily to meetings, working in the lounge).
So last week I took my laptop to my local PC shop who is a Lenovo dealer. (Mistake!)

Spoiler

They charged me £25 to tell me the laptop was "fried" and it "probably" was the motherboard. He then offered to remove the hard drive for an extra fee so I could use it in a new laptop, I then pointed it out that I had already removed the hard drive and memory.
He also advised that as he couldn't tell me what was "fried" then he couldn't guarantee a new motherboard would fix the problem and would recommend a new one.

So here's the predicament, i can get a refurbished motherboard for about £50-60 but there's no guarantee this will fix the problem. Alternatively do I get a new laptop? If so, what 14-15" laptop is best?
Now I've got a desktop it doesn't need massive storage (probably make do with 250GB) but must be able to run all the office package easily and PTC Creo Parametric. Also the cheaper the better.

 

[Biz.Kid09]

Firstly, never ever carry on using something after spilling liquid on it! If you had let it dry it may have been ok.

Anyway, a new motherboard could fix the issue as the liquid likely just shorted something but it's a risk and it could be £60 down the drain. However, if you want something new then what's your budget?

I would also take your hard drive out and sell the laptop for parts, will get you some money to put towards your new one.

 

[Benny144]

Firstly, never ever carry on using something after spilling liquid on it! If you had let it dry it may have been ok.

Anyway, a new motherboard could fix the issue as the liquid likely just shorted something but it's a risk and it could be £60 down the drain. However, if you want something new then what's your budget?

I would also take your hard drive out and sell the laptop for parts, will get you some money to put towards your new one.

Hard drive already out and in my new PC (I'd swapped it for an SSD so kept it for PC). RAM is out.
What parts could I sell? It's only the monitor (which I can't confirm works), case and a faulty mobo.
Ideally less than £200 on a new one but that may be optimistic.
I didn't realise the spill was that bad, thought it just went on my keyboard a bit, obviously was wrong!

 

[Biz.Kid09]

Sell the whole thing, for spares and repairs. Be surprised what you get back.

Less than 200 is optimistic unless something like a chrome book would be suitable?

 

[Benny144]

Sell the whole thing, for spares and repairs. Be surprised what you get back.

Less than 200 is optimistic unless something like a chrome book would be suitable?

Sell it with dorm sort of auction? 99p?

It's not my main PC, only laptop I ever had was the flex, just need occasional office use and some CAD use. (My PC runs my CAD package including rendering with no GPU)

 

[Biz.Kid09]

Yeah list it for 99p, state clearly multiple times its 'spares and repairs'

Hmm. Best checking out eBay then for a refurbished laptop or something for £200. You won't find anything new.