Inspiron 9300 and SATA 7200 HD

Hi!

I have recentlly a problem with replacing my motherboard in my inspiron 9300. I have bought another motherboard, which apparently uses SATA HDD. And it turns out that my old motherboard was IDE.

So now I'm told I need to replace my HD with a SATA HD. I was wondering if I just need a SATA HD like Hitachi or Seagate (I want the one with 7200 rpm also because it's what my current 1 is) will all the memory, cpu, etc. be compatable with the new SATA mother board?

 

If you have a motherboard that uses a different HDD interface, are you sure you bought the right motherboard? The same branded notebook would never undergo such an extensive change in specs without being renamed (aka...the 9400=E1705 perhaps).

If you have a new HDD interface, you probably have a new chipset, and thus a new CPU pinout, maybe needing new RAM, etc, etc. You really need to check and see if you have the right mobo...because I do not think you do.

 

Yup...you have the wrong motherboard:

This is what you owned: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2369
This is what you bought: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3379

The Pentium M and associated chipset used the IDE interface and nothing else. My guess is that you have a 9400 motherboard, which used SATA...and also a different pin out processor (aka...Core Duo's socket).

Probably the same GPU, but who knows for sure. If the 9300 and 9400 ports are even slightly different, that motherboard is not going to fit in your notebook shell.

 

Thanks for your fast response!

I guess I have 2 get rid of this mother board now. The only question I had is:
how can I get the right mother board?

Because all sellers offering motherboards that says 9300 Inspiron and then you look item description and it's always says SATA HDD.

 

It says the one I bought called daq20 la-2941

How do I view the 1 that I currently have? I went to dell website and look up the specs using system tag but they didn't have anything regaring the motherboard.

And the hard drive that is currently installed on my computer is HTS726060M9AT00

 

Actually they did. The 9300 gained SATA interface mid-life. I don't know if anything else changed though.

 

Here is a bit of proof

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread122680.html

another

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=233714&start=0

Also, I have a 9300 and was searching on dells support site a week ago, though I can't seem to find it right now, and in a list of laptops, it gave me a choice of 9300 and below that, before 9400, was 9300 (sata). I will keep looking, as I am trying to find the right 9300 motherboard myself.

 

I know this reply is very late, but the Inspiron 9300S is same as the 9300 (IDE), except the HD difference. I built two 9300S and the internal parts are the same. I'm sorry you didn't get the correct answer from your posting. Also, I upgraded my video card to the nVidia Geforce 7800 GTX with a special BIOS, which is a notch above the XPS M170.