Hi,
I recently bought a faulty Elitebook from ebay, and that was exactly how it was listed just "HP Elitebook", no details.
It has two issues, the first being in manufacturing mode for the bios, which from my understanding essentially means a bios has been flashed that does not have any of the laptops details, model, serial number etc.
The second issue is it does not charge which I'm sure I'll be ok with once i get into it.
The bios issue is a problem though as the laptop is missing all of the details on the bottom case, it's completely blank, it's not like they were rubbed off, it's as if they were never there, so I have no details to enter into the bios.
The motherboard is a 6050A3299901-MB-AX1, which after some searching is almost identical to the HP Elitebook 840 G9 motherboard part number, the only difference being that a G9 is A01 not AX1, from studying images of a G9 MB, the bios chip on the board is mounted differently on my machine, on a sub board attached via a ribbon cable, while on the G9 it is mounted directly on the motherboard.
Has anyone encountered this motherboard model number before? does anyone know what this machine is?
I'm going to call HP Support, I'm hoping they can give me the machines details based on the MB serial number but I don't have much hope they will be helpful.
I recently bought a faulty Elitebook from ebay, and that was exactly how it was listed just "HP Elitebook", no details.
It has two issues, the first being in manufacturing mode for the bios, which from my understanding essentially means a bios has been flashed that does not have any of the laptops details, model, serial number etc.
The second issue is it does not charge which I'm sure I'll be ok with once i get into it.
The bios issue is a problem though as the laptop is missing all of the details on the bottom case, it's completely blank, it's not like they were rubbed off, it's as if they were never there, so I have no details to enter into the bios.
The motherboard is a 6050A3299901-MB-AX1, which after some searching is almost identical to the HP Elitebook 840 G9 motherboard part number, the only difference being that a G9 is A01 not AX1, from studying images of a G9 MB, the bios chip on the board is mounted differently on my machine, on a sub board attached via a ribbon cable, while on the G9 it is mounted directly on the motherboard.
Has anyone encountered this motherboard model number before? does anyone know what this machine is?
I'm going to call HP Support, I'm hoping they can give me the machines details based on the MB serial number but I don't have much hope they will be helpful.
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