Re the Toshiba T5200.... Try www.acsparts.com though I see no 5200 stuff listed, probably because it's getting rather old for such support. They have provisions to e-mail them with your request, as they have many items not listed but still in stock. I have a Toshiba 420CD Satellite which I blew up in a foreign country when the line voltage went to 300+ during the night while it was charging. The same thing happened - the internal inverter let out the Magic Smoke and died. The replacement inverter was $45 from acsparts, but I bought a more current laptop instead and use the older on at home in a static mode - ie. it sits in one place and never moves, so I wired up a 15VDC 2A power supply (which is the internal power bus of that particular model) and bypassed the inverter entirely. It works fine, battery stays charged, etc. All this being said - I have seen several T5200 changing hands recently, and if the price is under pnds /5 or maybe /10 if it's complete with all accessories and a lot of software, then you can't go too wrong. Remember it's a momchrome 386 with a 100M hard-to-find HD, so it depends on your intended use as to what value you might place on one. Cheers John

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