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By VAIMAHDO
#58020
That feeling you get when your favorite computer is so rare you cannot find parts to repair it. ._.

I own a 2000 SONY VAIO PCV RX-463DS tower and it has been dead for many many years due to a motherboard failure. Since then I have been searching for a new board, and there are so many similar but slightly different (newer) models that I cannot find the right board for this one. With that said, if any of you find an RX-463DS motherboard working, please let me know.
Here's a picture of it to get yourself the idea of it:
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Notice: There are COUNTLESS similar models, and if it is not EXACTLY the RX-463DS model, then it will NOT be compatible with my remaining parts. So like I said, the slightly newer versions are easy to find, but this original release model series seems to be scarce in numbers.

Specifications:
Intel Pentium 4 running at 1.40Ghz
512MB RAM
32MB video card by ASUS
40GB hard drive
Operating System: Windows XP Home 32 bit

Why do I care so much?

First off it is my favorite computer.

Secondly, I used to use it for experiments as well as classical CGI themes. (Make 3D animations that look like they are from 1990-2000). And nothing is quite like owning the real thing.

In the mean time, if you have a Pentium 4 based machine or a WORKING computer with a 32 bit processor running under 1.50Ghz and supports SSE 2 instructions, then also let me know. It also seems difficult to find a decently priced computer with an SSE2 32 bit processor running under even 2.00Ghz without being a Pentium III processor, which doesn't support SSE2 instructions, making it not useful to me.
#58074
Wonders if any of these might fit.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=mi ... Y&_sacat=0

There not for that specific PC. But I'm led to believe that PC's motherboard is mATX.
I'm not very faimlar with PC's of that time.

Or these.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=mi ... 1&_sacat=0

Not sure if you would need to make slight modifications to the case for them to fit.
Since there not designed specifically for that model.

But finding the exact motherboard for that computer is like finding a grain of sand in a sahara sandstorm.
#58077
It is, and I much appreciate you guys trying to help me. None of those motherboards were a match, but the first link you placed Madness, had the same connectors for the rear of the case, the only difference is the lack of RAM slots, there are only two, my board has four. As I said, I have one of the very first of these towers, they changed quite early in development. I will post a picture of the motherboard I have so you guys can get a better look at it. I'd be so dam happy to use this beauty again if I could!

More specifics:'

4 RAM slots, they hold up to 512MB total.
The full tower comes with Windows 2000 back when these were shipped.
Runs the Intel Pentium 4 processor at 1.40Ghz (Without HyperThreading support)

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