I am asking this question for my niece. I bought her a Sony vio laptop when she started her course in 2005. Now she tells me that the laptop will not even power on and that the Motherboard (according to PC World) needs replacing and that will cost over 400 Euros. I am wondering is it worth repairing. I did pay over a thousand pounds sterling for it, I think 12 hundred pounds. She says the computer will not even turn on and is very worried as she has not backed-up all her data and we are wondering is there any way she can recovery her data at least. Eleanor -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1734 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message