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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    eBay has male to female ide cable extenders as short as 2 inches. Do you think one of those might work? By the way I tried an ide/pata to sata adapter once. Seems they were limited to ide/pata speeds
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    Eureka3-GL8 board? There seem to be several on eBay.
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    My original Windows Vista operating system from my original s3020n is presently on a system with entirely different components including a different non-HP motherboard. I have reinstalled and reactivated at least twice including an upgrade from original 32 bit to 64 bit: only requires...
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    QUOTE=Cozgrove;1039125110]I just did a real quick search. Have you had any issues with it? I'll look into the details later when I get home, was it a direct replacement for the original or did you have to buy anything else (heatsink or adapters). If you have a HematiteXL, it is a direct...
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    Have you looked at the Acacia M2N61-AR motherboards on eBay? The vendors seem to be mostly from China and priced around 100 bucks. The HematiteXL boards were junk and I replaced mine with an Acacia board. It worked and was a lot less aggravation than a mini ITX I put in a 2nd slimline case later.
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    Is it possible to temporarily reinstall Vista (borrow a friends disk if you don't have one) upgrade bios then reinstall 7?
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    What I take you are saying is that the friend uninstalled the basic video driver that comes with Windows that would drive both the card VGA and the board VGA in a basic mode before installing a driver for on-board video (which necessarily must not be present or on-board video would work) or the...
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    The Acacia was the successor to the HematiteXL for AMD processors beginning with the 3200 series, I believe. There are some differences, but you should be able to use all s3020n components. The operating system may work as well. I never tried my old OEM Windows Vista on one since MS sent me a...
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    Your call. All of these boards are from China: even those from US sellers. Conventional wisdom is to replace these boards with the Acacia (Asus M2N61-AR) rather than another HematiteXL. It is my impression that even those who were able to take advantage of the extended warranty still had...
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    Did you get your new board from China on eBay? If so, did they supply a power adapter for connecting these boards to a standard atx power supply? Checking it against a known working power supply would rule out power supply issues if the problem persists.
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    You don't say with what your friend upgraded your video. HP Slimline s3020n systems came with only a 160 watt power supply which severely limits the choice of video cards that will work. This topic has been thoroughly discussed in this thread.
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    Perhaps this is a trivial suggestion, you probably have already tried it. Have you removed your non-working video card and tried on-board video? I know they suggest that you go into bios to turn off/on on-board video when installing/uninstalling a video card in the PCIe slot. In my clumsy...
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    I have the Vista operating system from my original s3020n installed on a Zotac GF6100-e-e board that replaced the HematiteXL board. As I recall, it took a call to Microsoft. It still IDs as an s3020n although I don't think HP recognizes it as such. It probably won't reinstalll from...
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    I was able to get a min i itx board into a s3000 series case. Stock motherboards are sometimes referred to as "mini itx" but jeremyshaw I believe refers to them as "mini dtx", which may be a more accurate description. The only problem I had was the location of the power supply connectors on...
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    The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

    The HematiteXL that came with my HP Pavilion s3020n slimline I believe had the factory defect you were referring: I had problems getting it to "wake up" from sleep/hibernation. It would also hang on boot, a problem that I have read elsewhere had something to do with the hdd spinning, Finally...
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