Your motherboard
helps your computer's components communicate with each other.
Your Compaq SR1103WM desktop computer holds a MS-6577 motherboard with a socket number of 478. If you want to upgrade your motherboard, but keep the same processor, you must get another socket 478 motherboard. This will ensure that the processor fits the same specification. If you don't mind using another processor and cooling unit, any ATX or MicroATX motherboard fits this model.
Instructions
1. Turn your computer around with the rear facing you and remove all the cables connected to it.
2. Remove the screws from the right edge of the rear. Pull back on the cover while lifting it off.
3. Remove the cables connected to your motherboard. Remember where they were connected, so you know where to connect them on your new board.
4. Remove the screws on the motherboard that hold it to the computer, and lift the motherboard off. You may reuse these screws if you wish for your new motherboard. Pop out the faceplate from the back of the computer. Press in the new motherboard's faceplate where all devices connect, until you hear a clicking sound.
5. Raise your new motherboard's processor socket lever. Put your processor on the motherboard's processor socket, aligning the small golden arrow with the raised plastic arrow on the motherboard socket and lower the lever.
6. Place a small beaded drop of thermal paste on the center of your processor's surface and spread the paste around until the paste completely covers the surface. Situate the fan on top of your processor and clip it on tightly.
7. Mount your motherboard in the computer's interior and align it with the mounting screw holes. Place one screw inside each hole you see. Connect all your motherboard's cables as they were in the old one.
8. Re-assemble your computer exterior and start it up.
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