E. F. wrote:
> Mike,
>
>> Plug the service tag number into the dell website.
>> You can pull up the factory configuration details.
>> That may give you enough clues.
>
> Will it give me DELL's part number for the motherboard (assuming there
> is such thing)?
You can answer that question by plugging your service tag number
into the website.
>
>> Bigger question is Why do you need an identical one?
>
> My main reason was to aoid any possible headaches, including Microsoft
> XP problems with hardware changes.
It's my belief that any DELL Install CD will work on any Dell without
problems. I routinely swap disk drives between similar desktop systems.
Never done it with a laptop, but expect it works as long as the drivers
don't conflict and lock it up.
But that's only XP issue. If you use any other expensive commercial sw,
that may have other license compliance issues.
Depending on the source of the board, I'd worry more about getting
another bad board than the sw issues. Based on the level of experience
suggested by your questions, there's the possibility that you'll bust
something during the install process.
Swapping a motherboard is trivial the SECOND time you do it.
>
> TIA, Eugene
>
> =====================================================
> On Jan 8, 116 pm, mike <spam...@go.com> wrote:
>> E. F. wrote:
>>> I have DELL Latitude D600 that experiences problems that apparently
>>> can be cured by motherboard replacement only.
>>> If I to by the replacement motherboard from a 3rd-party source what
>>> parameters I need to match to make sure I'm getting an identical one?
>>> How do I go about obtaining such info?
>>> Please point me in the right direction.
>>> TIA, Eugene
>> Depends on your definition of identical.
>>
>> Plug the service tag number into the dell website.
>> You can pull up the factory configuration details.
>> That may give you enough clues.
>> Compare to the info from the donor machine.
>>
>> Bigger question is Why do you need an identical one?
>> If it's so registered software continues to work,
>> there may be no IDENTICAL one. That's the whole idea
>> behind preventing transfer to another machine. Depending on the methods
>> of identifying and locking sw to one machine, you may
>> not be able to do it at all. Some versions of Dell Bios
>> let you change some of the ID parameters, some don't.
>> Then there's the ethernet ID.
>> Might be easier to convince the SW vendor to give you a
>> new license.
>>
>> Can't think of another reason you'd demand identicalness.
>