Advice needed on motherboard replacement

Hello all and thanks in advance for any help

I believe the motherboard in my toshiba satellite x205 sli1 has failed. I get 19.4V at the connector to the motherboard, but nothing works. No power indicators, lights, fans or anything.

It has socket PGA478MN, and the PM965 express chipset

Problem is that I can't find a motherboard that supports this, or they are very rare and expensive. Checked e-bay and found nothing, in fact doing a search for this reveals very little.

Am I going to have to go to a different motherboard and CPU to get this system going again, and if so will I have to replace the other components also?

 

Try Spare Parts Warehouse- LINK

You can at least find the part number and then search by that to find the best deal. Or you can buy the part from them, it looks like $304 is the going rate for the X205 motherboard.

 

Thanks a lot for the advice. Others had about the same price. I did order it from them. It seems expensive though, is it really that great?

Do you know why this socket and chipset are not used more? Maybe toshiba uses them to keep replacement prices high.

Anyway, I'll await the arrival, install it and see how things work.

 

The PM965 chipset was supseded by the PM45 chipset introduced last July (2008). The PM45 (and it's integrated graphics counterpar, the GM45) were part of the much-hyped "Centrino 2" launch. The newer PM45/GM45 chipsets support the newest Intel Core 2 Duo processors (with 1066MHz FSB) and they also support DDR2-800 and DDR3-1066 RAM.