Motherboard Upgrades for 3125 Laptop

[LuxyT]

Hi, I'm having trouble finding a list of different motherboards that would fit into my hp 3125 laptop chasis. I have a dremel and am not afraid to make slight adjustments if absolutely necessary, but seriously, I can't find any compatibility list at all for this model. I want to update it, if at all possible, and I'm a big supporter of the Right to Repair movement, so just buying a whole new laptop seems wasteful. I've already changed out the hdd for an ssd and upgraded the ram. There isn't really much else I can do hardware-wise to improve this laptop, but I'm hoping I'm lucky enough to find a compatible motherboard with the ability to swap out things like the chipset. Even if I can't get a swappable one, just any more recently built motherboard would be amazing because I'm fairly certain this one came out in 2011.

[WAWood]

@LuxyT 

The chipsets on these laptop motherboards are soldered, not socketed.  So, unless you have experience removing and installing such things, this is a really bad idea.

Many folks posting here seem to think that replacing a laptop motherboard, apart from having to disassemble the laptop, is a simple matter like replacing a memory stick or a disk drive.

It is NOT!!!

Before you spend any money to attempt to replace the HP motherboard, you need to be aware of the issues involved with doing that.

First, HP does not sell laptop motherboards except for rare exceptions. If you use this link to go to the HP site and do NOT see your motherboard listed, that means HP does not sell it: http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-dv6-6c00-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-series/5191856/mo...

That means any motherboard you buy will be USED, having been taken from another PC. Those often do not work, or have internal problems that the seller does not disclose. So, you need to buy it from a seller that will refund your money if the motherboard does not work properly -- many of them will NOT do this because the item is USED.

Also, the licensed Windows version that came preloaded on your PC is an HP OEM Version -- and that license is tied to the original motherboard, not to the PC owner. When you toss away that motherboard, you toss away the license -- and HP will not provide you a second license. Since the versions of Windows you can buy will not activate with the embedded HP OEM license, you will have to buy a Retail version of Windows, and a license to go with it. You will then have to replace the installed Windows version on your laptop with the version you bought and license it. We are not able to assist in any of that work.

The bottom line is the process is a lot more difficult than simply swapping one part for another.

[Huffer]

All that @WAWood  says and there are no upgraded motherboards with current hardware that would fit. Best you can do is get another motherbord which will use hardware from the same era. You might get a very small incremental improvement but it will not be worth the cost or the time.