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Help on Replacement Motherboard E1505 Identification

post #1 of 6
9/9/08 at 11:07am
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I have an E1505 (my sister's) that got the preverbal soda spill and I assume it fried the motherboard (won't post, just flashes the power LED then shuts off...battery recharges just fine though.)

I'm trying to just buy a refub or parted-out board off of eBay and do a swap but I'm confused about whether all E1505s are created equal? I see quite a few with the first few sets of board ID numbers being the same as mine, but the last two are different. Ex:
"CN-0MD666-48643-xxxx-xxxx" where the "xxx"s don't match. How cal I tell it the Merom T7200 in my dead board will work with any of these refurb/parted-out boards? I'm not getting nowhere with answers from eBay sellers.

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post #2 of 6
9/10/08 at 2:35am
E1505's that shipped with the ATI or nVidia graphics card are different from the systems that shipped with Intel integrated graphics That's really the only real difference you'll run into.
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post #3 of 6
9/11/08 at 12:14am
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E1505's that shipped with the ATI or nVidia graphics card are different from the systems that shipped with Intel integrated graphics That's really the only real difference you'll run into.
Great news. So my Merom processor will fit any E1505...I'm positive that it has the Intel Integrated Graphics BTW.
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post #4 of 6
9/11/08 at 1:27am
Yeah, all E1505 boards take the same CPUs. Though there is a possibility you'll run into a board that has an outdated BIOS. Thought those chances are pretty small.

Also, it's pretty easy to tell if you have a graphics card or not. The ATI X1400 has a Red PCB and is the only red circuit board in the system. the nvidia card may be green. You can tell just by looking at the LCD connector.
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post #5 of 6
9/11/08 at 9:38am
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Originally Posted by MrEvil View Post
Yeah, all E1505 boards take the same CPUs. Though there is a possibility you'll run into a board that has an outdated BIOS. Thought those chances are pretty small.

Also, it's pretty easy to tell if you have a graphics card or not. The ATI X1400 has a Red PCB and is the only red circuit board in the system. the nvidia card may be green. You can tell just by looking at the LCD connector.
I guess it wouldn't matter anyhow since I'm swapping out the whole motherboard. I don't see why the chassis, HDD, CPU, DVD+-R and system RAM wouldn't be compatible with a board that had the Intel, ATI or Nvidia graphics. I assume they would be all the same and fit into the same carcass. I believe the screen resolution is WXVGA...so I'd actually prefer the upgraded graphics processor....
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post #6 of 6
9/11/08 at 1:45pm
yeah, your other parts will work fine. It's just that boards with integrated graphics don't have a socket for the graphics card and boards for graphics cards don't have integrated graphics.
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