useing a old hard drive on a new motherboard

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  1. philmatt

    philmatt Member

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    about 2 year ago i brought a hp pavilion slimline(model s3811uk)the board doesnt work anymore ,can i replace the board or not to make it work again ,it has a irvine board , GeForce 7100/nForce 630 ,Socket: 775
    can anyone suggest a new board that will work
     
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    your title is misleading as it speaks about hard drive but the subject is possibly replacing motherboard which is 2 different things so fix your title. a microATX board is to big for that case so have 3 options.
    1: pay an arm & a leg for an identical board from hp.
    2: buy an identical board off ebay or similar & maybe enherit somebody elses problem.
    3: buy an empty clone tower(with psu) & new motherboard then use parts from old pc like cpu, cpu heatsink fan assembly, ram & drives to populate new case & motherboard.
     
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    option 3 sounds like the best , i do have a tower, psu etc ,,wouuld any 775 board work
     
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    yes as long as the board can fit into case ok. most likely can't use your hp recovery disk tho can try if new board has similar chipset to old board.
     
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    many thanks for your help
     
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    no problem.
     

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