My wife's ~5 year old HP DV5-1003NR laptop wouldn't start yesterday morning and the num lock and caps lock lights were flashing. Googling turns up that the single blink means "Bad CPU". I tried Googling to see whether it was worth repair but mostly turned up a bunch of internet drivel. A new Dell is on the way but I'd still like to determine whether its worth fixing, because it is a pretty nice laptop, better than my personal ~6 year old Dell. I can get a "new system pull" CPU on eBay for $9. Anyone have experience with these and know if it might be worth a try or if there is a good chance its something different that's not worth fixing?
I've got a nightly backup of the system on our Windows Home Server and I assume the hard drive is still good so its not really an issue of recovering data.