[Bill todd]

I have a Fry's FM 7340, it went belly up a week ago. Has an IDE 80 hard drive that I was told works, but they said that they think the mother board went bad. Had it for 4 or 5 years. Does anyone know if I can get a replacment motherboard? Or put the HD in an external case and access it?

Thanks

Bill T.

 

[elf]

You should be able to put it in another case to access it. The only problem with getting a replacement motherboard is that Microsoft then considers it a new computer (unless you get the same motherboard).

If you can get the same motherboard then you could just use it as a replacement, though you may have to call Microsoft and explain what happened before being able to use the computer again.