M1330...Is it possible...

One of my mates has a dead M1330. I told him about the "oven" trick but his wife might hurt the both of us. It is however possible to replace the motherboard with the integrated X3100 motherboard correct?

 

Yes, but I didn't do it personally. I went with a company on ebay ( race technologies ) to do the job. It cost me $250 which included shipping back. I was happy with the end result as everything has been working perfectly for the last 2 to 3 months and as far as performance, outside of gaming, I can't really tell all that much difference in speed.

 

"Oven" Trick?!?!?!?

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Are you trying to junk the system? If so, feel free to toss it in the oven.

How old is your mate's laptop? If it has a GPU Issue, your mate got a 1yr extension.

I've heard of using a hairdryer or heatgun on the GPU, but a whole laptop inside of an oven is insane.

Yes, you can swap motherboards, and its easy.. took a dell tech about 10 mins to completely swap mine.

 

@LR Yes it works best thing bro send the women out shopping that should last the full day going by mine this way it will give you more the enough time to do the oven trick...

But going with the second OPTION yes intel mobo will work but you need to get the intel cooling fan unit also thats a MUST!!!!!!!

fan unit links
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-XPS-M1330-...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item41463a662e

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-XPS-M1330-...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item414a36051a

Hot gun ok if you have one to hand, but the oven is the best option for correcting solder dry joint and solder heat fatigue.

 

You don't put the whole laptop in the oven.

 

No one said you put the whole laptop in the over, it's just the mobo...

 

From the OP's post, I could just imagine someone reading it, heating an oven to 500 degrees, throwing a M1330 in, waiting a while then come back ing about how it didn't work and it destroyed his laptop.

Obviously, I know not to stick a laptop in an oven, but you never know.. People take literally.. Flushing a motor with a garden hose... Sand blasting an intake manifold by pouring sand into the intake piping

 

Sorry, I should of been more specific. The oven "trick" involves removing the motherboard and putting it in the oven for 5 - 8 minutes. People claim this actually works. My mate did not know about the warranty extension, he travels quite a bit and his M1330 is currently a paperweight collecting dust on his desk at home. He will follow up with Dell about getting it repaired.

 

I really doubt you put the entire motherboard in the oven, thats insane. The key is to heat up the soldering connections of the GPU with a heat gun or something similar at about 300C for only a couple of mins. Reboot the system and see whether the lines goes away. There is a video of this on youtube.

 

I know, but I was posting in reference to Shadow25s first post.

That is why I posted.

Yes, you do place the entire motherboard in the oven (you can't take the MB apart). You are supposed to remove any plastic washers, etc. first. The motherboard was originally assembled floating along in molten solder (wave soldering).

The temp they suggest is 385 F for about 10 minutes. I have not tried it myself. I have read about it several times.

If my laptop was not under warranty and my GPU failed (as so many do on M1530s), why wouldn't I try to remelt the solder in the oven? At that point the MB is scrap ... so I can't hurt it.

 

You can do it anyway you want so long it works. The heat gun method does produce positive results.

 

Yes. I think people choose the oven because they don't have a proper heat gun and/or because it's easier to control the temperature with an oven.

 

You can control the temperature by a so called "Hot air rework station". Some prefer this over the oven method since you don't have to dissemble and reassemble the laptop. The catch is you have to shell out more for this tool.