Morning Kane, we had a laptop problem with great similarity (still have), it'll fire up, but keeps clicking and you cannot type anything, goes very slow with the curser movement and you cant really do anything at all ,.... I'm gunna find out whether a new keyboard fitted would alleviate the problem and be a fix for the laptop without loss of information.I think the keyboards are just plug and play, so would surely not be too an expensive type fix.
Maybe you too still have some sort of hope with the laptop itself.