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Dextro
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To change the motherboard of a Dell XPS?
I fear that if I change the motherboard, my recovery disk won't work anymore.
I think Dell "locks" the motherboard in the bulding stage, so if you try to use the recovery disk on any other system without a Dell motherboard, it will produce an error in the installation stage.
Also, does Dell offer a hardware upgrade service? If so, does your computer needs to be still under warranty?
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AaronG
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You are right, Dell locks the motherboard, even making direct changes to the other hardware such as the video card impossible sometimes. I hate it, haha.


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Osiris
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Google for ways to unlock it. I mean there must be a way to unlock something that is lockable.

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Dextro
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My guess would be a custom bios chip.
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JoelJ
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Quote: "My guess would be a custom bios chip. "

then replacing the motherboard wouldn't be a problem, right?
unless all the other hardware doesn't work without the presence of this specific bios


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HowDo
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If your motherboard is red in color then it using the 7 strikes system and need the engineer's disk to reset it.

had this problem when the engineer come out swapped the motherboard but did not do the up date, so when I tried to do a fresh re build with the recovery disk it was no go. Had to call the engineer out again to fix it again.

it needs that magic disk?

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