[SOLVED] Laptop MOBO Compatibility / swapping MOBO

[Romaniac]

Short story:

I have a lady with a ~4 year old HP G62-225NR. She decided on a MOBO swap.

I want to replace it with this, as it is affordable and guaranteed working. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Compaq-Pres..._DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58c2f254c1#viTabs_0

The differences are these: The "Replace with HP spare" numbers are different.
OLD: 616449-001
NEW: 623909-001

Also, if you look at the above ebay page, and zoom in on photo, where it is printed:

HanStar J MV-4
94V-0
1048

The old board matches that, except for the 1048. I think it's 1026.


Question: Will the MOBO from the link above work?


I was hoping the new MOBO and old HDD would be OK, and drives would just work. But I suppose a fresh install would be alright (I may look into imaging and then the 'deploy to new system')
I don't have info on BIOS version for old board.

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Long story:

Client started shut down for laptop and walked away. When she came back to it later on, she noticed the power button light was still on - so she hard shut it down. It never came back on.

The little 'charing'/'power' light next to charger wouldn't even come on anymore. I tried 2 different chargers (one generic, one identical) and I even swapped out the DC jack (harness type).

Nada - totally dead.

As I was shopping for a replacement, I saw a few boards on eBay with the description 'for parts only - no power to board' so I wonder if that was a common failure within the family line.


Thanks for the help/input.

 

[gikstar]

I checked out the eBay site... if were you I would ask this question of the seller on eBay, 'cause I haven't a clue

 

[coffee]

Its not best practice you know. I would not do it. Your going to end up buying a MB for yourself. Replace with identical items / Part numbers only.

 

[Markverhyden]

Welcome to the world of HP hardware repairs. It may or may not. You need to go to partsurfer.hp.com. Plug in the serial number of the machine in question. That will give you the BOM, including part numbers as well as subbed parts.

The next item that is very important. HP, like all major OEM's, does some fancy things to BIOS. There are two main reasons. One is to insure that the recovery disks, which can span several different models, load the correct drivers for the model in question and the other is to prevent people from using their recovery disks for OS software piracy.

Their BIOS is setup to input things like Build ID (BID), Feature Bytes (FB), HP part number, serial number, etc, etc off the label on the bottom. I can help out with that part. Just because the motherboard looks the same does not mean all of the chips are the same. In theory you can flash a board that has a different part number but has the same features/chipsets and a recovery will work. I've seen that on desktops before but not on desktops. And the flash procedure is not the same for the entire HP ecosystem. Varies by machine age and market, consumer vs business.

 

[wavey]

HanStar J MV-4
94V-0

A lot of different mobos have this name on them, for instance I have just repaired an old HP DV9000 and the markings on the mobo are 'Hannstar J MV-4 94V-0 0829 DA0AT2MB8H0 REV:H'

So be very cafeful when buying a replacement board.

 

[NYJimbo]

I may be wrong but it looks like one has a HDMI port and the other does not. Probably also going to be other diffs like one may be a higher resolution video and possibly the chipset drivers might be different. Too risky, buy an exact replacement.

 

[Romaniac]

I don't know if you're right Jimbo, but even if that wasn't the case, it's not looking good.

I was fearing this, but thought I'd ask and hoped someone just happened to have some info that would make it all OK

NO buy.

Thanks a bunch guys!