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    Help! P-6860FX mother board replacement.

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by JayB95, Feb 22, 2013.

  1. JayB95

    JayB95 Newbie

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    My gateway computer a FX. Model # P-6860FX. The video card is going bad so that means I have to replace the motherboard. I was hoping I could replace it. Is this possible? If so where would I find the mother board #? I tried searching it on gateway. But I couldn't find this computer anywhere.
     
    JayB95, Feb 22, 2013
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    Sinclair-ZX81 Notebook Guru

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    I've gotten a few from ebay.. What is the problem with it?
     
    Sinclair-ZX81, Feb 22, 2013
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    JayB95 Newbie

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    I took it into bestbuy and they told me the mother board is done.
     
    JayB95, Feb 22, 2013
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    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    I looked ebay and didn't find a P6860FX motherboard but you might just have to keep looking. At least my P6860FX and P7811FX are still running and working. They were big investments and plan to keep them for some time.
     
    StormJumper, Feb 22, 2013
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    andy A Notebook Consultant

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    the 7 series boards will work also,
    need to change the media bar to a 7 series bar
     
    andy A, Feb 23, 2013
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    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    You can do that but I saw the price and was like wow....so you will have to decide if the rest of the computer is still good and if so you can just stick a 7 series into the case and go from there. I did see Ebay seller ads for reflowing the GPU but you have to research if that will work for you as well.
     
    StormJumper, Feb 23, 2013
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Also the DVD may not work. The 6800's used an IDE DVD the 7 series uses a SATA if memory serves. Since the FSB is 800 on the 6800's you may need to check the CPU and memory too.
     
    TANWare, Feb 23, 2013
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    Your not kidding I kinda figure there as something up there until I took apart my P78 to dust it out and saw it was Sata not IDE. So I guess if the OP wants a P78 board they will have to as well get a Sata drive as well. Or if they want to can send it off to have the GPU reflowed to fix the problem if they think that will help. But I am glad my P6860FX is running and working good.
     
    StormJumper, Feb 24, 2013
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