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Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Since it's soldered on the motherboard, I have no choice but replacing
> the system board, or trash the laptop all together.
>
> I wonder if it's possible to buy a, cheaper, second hand, working system
> board for the R3000. Does anyone has any hint or information on this?
Just for the record, if that can help others, well , I did it... I
bought a motherboard on ebay (quite expensive, got to find one seller
that would ship the item over to Europe), and got it installed in the
R3480EA. I wouldn't say it was easy, it took me 2 hours to open the
laptop, replace the motherboard, put the CPU back in place and put all
pieces back together.
I ran into some trouble, when at first boot the BIOS just hanged with
the message:
104-Unsupported wireless network device detected.
System Halted. Remove device and restart.
Scary, heh?
Well, I did just what it says, I removed the keyboard and unplugged the
wireless card. Then I could boot and update the BIOS to the latest one
available from HP/Compaq. Then I plugged the wireless card again, and
all is well now. It appears that the motherboard had a bios a too old
for the wireless card that shipped with my R3480EA.
My R3000 is functionnal again...
Cheers,
Olivier.
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