HP Pavilion XT936 Motherboard

[mrtuck]

I am in desparate need of a motherboard for my PC, however most tell me the board is propriateray, and HP does not sell it seperate. Quite a scam eh?

Where is a good place to locate a motherboard for the HP Pavilion XT936. It apparently has to have a tattoo as well :-)

Thanks!

[John Prophet]

here is some info in the baord

Santa Fe 3.x TriGem SantaFe KL133: 8800(P3091A-ARS), 8802(P3039A-ARS), 8805(P5187A-ARS), 8880(P3096A-ARS),
8882(P2901A), XT933, XT936, XT983, US 7935, A812, A815, A820, A830

saw it here http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/Intel/HP.html


Are you sure though it is proprietary? I have replaced power supplies on HP Pavillions and they werent anything special so I dont think that part would be an issue....what about the back panel?? If the back panel is regular ATX I think you are in luck.

Are you sure its the motherboard? The gay little power supplies in those HP's are way underpowered and they have a habit of dying.

They DO make replacements for those microatx sized power supplies that are in the 200watt range as opposed to the wheezy 140watt range.

JP

[John Prophet]

also saw this thread http://www.techimo.com/forum/t75904.html

where the guy replaced the board in his HP7935 (which has the same board as your xt does) with that asus board he listed....he said he had some slight problems with the digital audio plug etc.

But it makes it sound like the case was regular atx anyway...so you COULD go with a different motherboard.

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yes...by the way...your "recovery" software disk probably wont work after replacing with a different mobo

[mrtuck]

Thanks for the reply John! The power supply in the case was tested by a local shop, and they seem to believe it is in working order. It is however your basic power box ... ATX I think.

More info as to what the machine does.....

Upon power up, the keyboard and mouse scroll wheel lights up, the cpu fan kicks on, the HDD gives a little whir attempt to operate and nothing more. No display on the monitor, no more HDD noise, just a very loud silence! :-)

I then removed all PCI cards, booted, got the same.

I removed the RAM from their slots and tried booting again hoping for beeps from the mobo, but got nothing.

Now the machine is completely tore apart, my data is on two HDD's and I am secretly wish HP would be swallowed by a black hole!

Any advice from there would be appreciated and the great abyss of social apathy would open a little less today.

Eric

[danamcpeek]

I have been wasting my time with the HP.com. That site is designed by incompetents...

I need the win98SE video and audio drivers for the Hewlet Packard HP XT936 motherboard with the Via chipset.

Any help will be appreciated!

email to danastuff@earthlink.net

Thanks,
Dana