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Z61m

R30/R40, A30/A31, G40/G50 and Z60/Z61 Series. NOT for AMD-Ryzen.
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Z61m

#1 Post by karagunis » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:34 am

I just need a confirmation about mobo before I shop from eBay..

Original FRU from my mobo is 42R9964, model number is 9450-HAG
and I need to replace it with a new one.

My question is can I use mobo with FRU 41W1292 ?!

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Re: Z61m

#2 Post by ajkula66 » Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:59 am

I believe so.

That's likely as close as you'll get to the original one...
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Re: Z61m

#3 Post by karagunis » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:25 am

ajkula66 wrote:I believe so.

That's likely as close as you'll get to the original one...
Thanks, but where can I check this to be 100% sure?

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Re: Z61m

#4 Post by ajkula66 » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:34 am

You can't...but this is what I can tell you:

The board you're looking at was the original one in my Z61m which was spec'd almost the same as yours, but I had WWAN as well...

Product: ThinkPad Z61m 9450-38U [change]
Operating system: All [change]

Original description: T2300E(1.66GHz), 1GB RAM, 100GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050 LCD, 128MB ATI Radeon X1400, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11abg wireless, WWAN, Bluetooth/Modem, 1Gb Ether, UltraNav, Sec Chip, IEEE 1394, FPR, Camera, 6c Li-Ion batt, WinXP Pro


The other board that HMM had offered was 42W2168. I ended up replacing mine with 44C3878 and it worked perfectly.

Make sure that the small sub-card that controls the camera is present on the "new" board, though.

Good luck.
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Re: Z61m

#5 Post by karagunis » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:25 am

Do you have information about 44C3876, is it similar to yours 44C3878 and maybe compatibile with my laptop?

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Re: Z61m

#6 Post by ajkula66 » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:07 am

Unfortunately, no info on that one...
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Re: Z61m

#7 Post by karagunis » Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:33 pm

ajkula66 wrote:I believe so.

That's likely as close as you'll get to the original one...
It seems that even 41W1292 mobo won't work on my laptop, I got 4 beeps and blank screen on startup,
that's system board according to manual... So what can I else do now?

It's really hard to find mobo with original fru 42R9964, but I think that's the only solution left?!

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Re: Z61m

#8 Post by ajkula66 » Tue Dec 27, 2011 6:43 pm

I'd be willing to bet that the new board is defective.

No reason for it not to work otherwise.

Good luck.
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Re: Z61m

#9 Post by karagunis » Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:04 pm

Are you sure that this problem was not related to compatibility between
new board and original parts?

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Re: Z61m

#10 Post by ajkula66 » Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:00 pm

I don't see why any of the original parts (presuming that they were working properly) would cause the board to beep.

The only thing that is different is a CPU, but you wouldn't get beeps from it, it would be silent and dead...so I'm sticking with the presumption of a bad board.

Good luck.
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