New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Resetting my motherboard serial?

post #1 of 6
10/6/06 at 10:53pm
Thread Starter 
I have 2 compaq R3000's. One is acting up and is 2 years old and it is having serious problems with the motherboard. The other works fine and is only 6 months old. My question to you is can I reset my serial number in the bios to my other R3000 so i can just send this in for repair to avoid the $500 charge for a new MB?

Thanks so much!
Mike
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 6
10/7/06 at 11:34am
Thread Starter 
bump
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 6
10/9/06 at 6:46am
Thread Starter 
bump
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 6
10/9/06 at 1:59pm
First off this is borderline illegal so you will probably not get an answer.

2nd - I would say NO, since any machine readable serial numbers would be burned into a ROM chip. Desoldering and resoldering those would probably kill BOTH motherboards, assuming you guessed correctly as to which one it is.
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 6
10/14/06 at 12:10pm
there is a way but you probably do not have the correct tools to do it. it envolves swapping components on the logic board. what is wrong with the other board? i may be able to help you out with that one instead. i work on these logic boards every day
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 6
10/14/06 at 1:13pm
Thread Starter 
It will freeze up while in windows after a few minutes and lines show up on the screen then I turn it off. when i power it back up i no longer have video. i have to let it sit for a while then the video works. i tried underclocking the vid card and still had the same issue.
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: HP, Compaq and Voodoo Notebooks