Ideal motherboard replacement for a Dell1500

[sd2001]

All I know is that her motherboard crapped the bed and that it needs to be replaced. Any suggestions for a replacement out there? I'd prefer that it be something I can obtain from Newegg.com but I'd consider anything. Also, how hard is it for a novice to stick one of these in? I'm sure that I can find a manual online somewhere but I'd kind of like to know what I was getting myself into first.

 

[sd2001]

C'mon, guys I know someone has to know the answer or at least knows of an ideal place I can find it out. Many thanks!

 

[imported_Kiwi]

I suspect that everyone else is waiting to see if you will use the forum's SEARCH feature (it sometimes actually works). This same subject comes up a lot at hardware forums. Dell, like most of the other brand name companies, prefers not to lose a customer once it has one, so they make sure you can't upgrade easily. For the most part, the power supplies and MB's are non-ATX standard when it comes to the connectors.

This makes upgrading more than oriinarily difficult. Aftermarket power supplies for Dell PC's are available, but the only place you can get MB's is from Dell. And the prices charged are anything but competitive. If you choose to change out BOTH the PSU and the MB, then you will find that not even the case itself is ATX standard. The front panel connectors to the MB are also proprietary.

At that point, all you have left is moving the drives. Chances are the MB is so old that the RAM isn't up to date, either. Practically a complete build. It would be cheaper to buy a new PC and just copy over the data files from the old drive.

 

[sd2001]

Originally posted by: Kiwi
I suspect that everyone else is waiting to see if you will use the forum's SEARCH feature (it sometimes actually works).

Searching the "Motherboard" forums with such terms as "Dell motherboard," "Dell mobo," etc. I got next to nothing. The info I did get didn't pertain to my problem at all.

I didn't look in other forums because this is the "motherboard" forum, hense why I searched here first and then asked.

At any rate, thanks for the info, in spite of the snarky remarks.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Far too high a percentage of my own attempts to use the Search feature in the For Sale forum have failed, thus my comment about it being an on-again, off-again function at AT. When I said "hardware Forums" in my reply, I omitted any reference to AT alone. There are hundreds of web sites with user forums that discuss PC hardware. I have some suspicion that AT may be among the more popular, however.

A few such will be here:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=dell+1500+motherboard

" about 1,300,000 English pages .. "

Any time you want sarcasm, say so. My years in the Inet Newsgroups preceding browsers, and on FidoNet before that, included regular visits to such places as Mindless Chatter and Drivel, a training ground for Curmudgeons in development.