Usually no. These boards are made specifically to go with the case of this model. Notebooks are like that too. Sometimes there are similar models with better components that could fit, but its hard to know.
Try this program:http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Unins... and disable automatic updates: START-> CONTROL PANEL-> AUTOMATIC UPDATES -> CHOOSE THE OPTION -> Turn off automatic updates <- ;-) ....
I doubt that your laptop is actually broken.
Can you give some more details.- What's the model ? HP Pavilion xyz320 ??
I may be able to give you the code to put into unlock it.
Thanks
Doug
why play around in the bios leave it alone. its there for a reason. if dont know what your doing you totally fff your pc. stay out. this is comming from someone that has built a lot of pc's in the past stay out.
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Their may be a built in utility to within the windows environment to start the recover.
Wold you like some remote assistance and I would be happy to check it out for you?
Andy
Green plug is for mouse
Purple plug is for Keyboard
Blue plug is for Monitor
Pink plug is for Scanner (not useually used anymore)
The thin skinny ones are USB
The one that looks like phone cable is LAN (Network)
round green one is speakers
normally one on the cpu then two in the case front and back. sometimes they have a tube or funnel over the cpu with a fan. Others have liquid tubing to keep cpu cool.
your husband really did a job
now you can do a job
change to a service provider that works well and then get in a IT geek to set it all up for your
It may cost a dollar but once set up , it will not need touching