I would only replace a motherboard of exactly the same type, but I would be careful as laptop motherboards a quite fiddly, maybe take it into a local shop and ask them.

DELL Inspiron 6000 - Screwed.

Try claiming on the house insurance.

In EU, the voltage is supposedley meant to be 220-230. Science teacher once told us that Britain was meant to have reduced the voltage to 220 to fall in line with the rest of europe. So he sticks a...

I had a mate, who while the PC was turned on, saw a little switch on the back of his PSU and thought 'What does this do'. He flipped it, and needles to say, the PC blew up.

Even worse here in the...

Any chance that you could post a scanned image somewhere?

Then the problem is somewhere in the printer, not the PC.

Does the black line appear in line with the scanner, or at right angles to it?

What happens when you try to photocopy something?

Do you still get the black line?

We've all done it, I'm just glad its working again now!

I thought it was something like that, as it was being picked up perfectly as a 2nd HDD, and no 1st seemed to be available. I found about...

OK - you tell me that you have the 1 HDD. From what I see on the specs for your machine, there are 2 Hard Drive bays, 1 is going to be Primary, the other Secondary. I know this may seem silly, but...

What pavillion model do you have?

as to the jumpers, I've never seen them on laptop HDDs before, but it was just a thought.

Are there any Jumpers on the drive? Check that they're set right.

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I have an Hp Compaq nx8220 business notebook. My problem is that the bit at the back where the power adapter goes in is broken, The pin in the middle of the socket has come detached from the...