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From: E. F. on 8 Jan 2010 15:41
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
From: ggwillikers on 8 Jan 2010 15:54
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
I may have exactly what you are looking for...at a reasonable price.
reply to jonlberg <at> gmail <dot> com
From: Barry Watzman on 8 Jan 2010 23:10
Basically, you want a motherboard from a D600 as similar to yours as
possible (preferably identical). In particular, same screen, same video
option and likely same CPU.

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
From: mike on 8 Jan 2010 23:36
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.
From: Barry Watzman on 9 Jan 2010 09:45
In terms of product activation, you are right, there is no "identical"
board. The critical issue in that regard was the MAC address of the
network interface(s).

But putting that aside (and it may not matter), Dell has offered many of
their machines with different LCD panels and with different video
options (some have chipset video, some have dedicated video that may or
may not be on the motherboard ... some dell laptops have a separate
video card). In that regard, it's probably best to match what he has to
insure that it works.


mike 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.
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