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Used motherboard?
HP DM1-4004SA freezing etc. then eventually wouldn't boot at all. Signs of
CPU overheating or m/b failure, CPU fan clean and running. Seems to be a common fault with these! Not much in the way of this m/b on Ebay but seems to be plenty here with widely varying prices: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale...ext=659511-001 I've never bought from these Chinese sites before, can I have faith in their assurance that the item is working and their warranty is genuine? Also would I be liable for import duty or similar? Kenny Cargill |
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On 2/2/2017 7:05 AM, Kenny wrote:
HP DM1-4004SA I've had no problems with import duties with small items that have come in from China (or the UK or Germany or New Zealand or Hong Kong for that matter) but YMMV. As for 'can I have faith', well, you can have all the faith you can muster but that means little to the final outcome. You gets what you gets and at some point there is little to nothing you can do, at least while staying on the plus side economically. Have you considered a new computer? They're doing wonderful things today and the prices have never been better. |
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Kenny wrote:
HP DM1-4004SA freezing etc. then eventually wouldn't boot at all. Signs of CPU overheating or m/b failure, CPU fan clean and running. Seems to be a common fault with these! Not much in the way of this m/b on Ebay but seems to be plenty here with widely varying prices: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale...ext=659511-001 I've never bought from these Chinese sites before, can I have faith in their assurance that the item is working and their warranty is genuine? Also would I be liable for import duty or similar? Kenny Cargill Ooo, this looks easy. Only 38 steps. http://www.insidemylaptop.com/how-to...on-dm1-laptop/ The processor (E-450) could be soldered down, and not in a ZIF socket. Makes no difference. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/k5EAAO...41/s-l1600.jpg Someone wants $15 for it. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-HP-D...-/282210643642 I think I'd want to study the problem some more, before committing to a repair like that. I'd want to boot an alternate OS (a Linux LiveCD) and see if it works any better. If that's an eMMC drive in the socket, I might want to swap in a spare and retest. Maybe a defect in the eMMC flash is making it "slow". To boot a Linux LiveCD, you can transfer it to a USB flash stick. Hybrid images, all you have to do is a sector-by-sector transfer. No need for unetbootin. Paul |
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Kenny on 2017/02/02 wrote:
HP DM1-4004SA freezing etc. then eventually wouldn't boot at all. Signs of CPU overheating or m/b failure, CPU fan clean and running. Seems to be a common fault with these! Not much in the way of this m/b on Ebay but seems to be plenty here with widely varying prices: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale...ext=659511-001 I've never bought from these Chinese sites before, can I have faith in their assurance that the item is working and their warranty is genuine? Also would I be liable for import duty or similar? When ordering direct from a China-based supplier, be aware that the item could get hung up in customs for a long time. I order some connectors (one connector type in a 5-pack) that took 45 days to arrive. 40 of those days were stuck in China in customs, the last 5 were for USPS to deliver to me once the item got released. If the China supplier has a warehouse or distribution center outside of China, delivery will be a lot quicker if the item is in stock at that outside-China distribution center. Items from China that came from distribution centers in California and Texas arrived within a week from when they got shipped from those points. I have not purchased anything from AliExpress to know their average shipping time, from where they ship, or even their customer service and honoring any warranty or wrong/bad part order. http://sale.aliexpress.com/buyerprotection-en.htm That claims you get a refund if your order does not arrive within their promised delivery time. Until you order, how would you know what is their promised delivery time? From that page, it become evident that you are not necessarily buying from AliExpress. You could be buying from some other seller using AliExpress as their storefront. This is the same as when buying from Amazon: some items are shipped by Amazon but a great many are from 3rd party vendors selling *through* Amazon. With a random sampling of 3 of the mobos in the search URL that you gave, the actual sellers were Laptop Sky Store, Shenzhen Dongchen laptop accessories Store, Shop2787199 Store. Those all happened to list themselves as "China (mainland)" vendors. Obviously AliExpress cannot determine what is the shipping time because AliExpress is not the actual vendor of the product. Someone else is selling through AliExpress. Think of AliExpress as a China equivalent of eBay or even of Amazon: you are buying from vendors using those sites to sell their wares. Well, why not buy through eBay since you are buying from someone selling through there (just like you would with AliExpress)? For a search on "HP DM1-4004SA motherboard", I found other vendors than just AliExpress, like laptopinventory.com (Nevada, USA) whose price is 10 times (http://tinyurl.com/j7qwbg8) that of those at AliExpress. Also, you gave a search URL for AliExpress. Even the mobo at Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/jczft6k) was 4 times the price of AliExpress - and that was for a used product (due to the ad mentioning "tested and working"). The search URL at AliExpress that you gave did NOT find a DM1-4004 model. Also, the hits from your search URL are for used items as they mention "tested and working", too. I tried searching on "DM1-4004" and got zero hits there. Do all the DM1-400x models use the DM1-4000 mobo? |
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