Will this work to replace my dear old X75A?

[Small Family Farmer]

Starting to have issues with the plug-in port and need the computer to run the farm.

My exact model is a X75A-XH52. Having trouble finding that exact machine, so can I get away with any X75A, be able to pull the hard drive out of my old machine, plug it into my new machine, and be merrily on my way?

 

[hang-the-9]

If the system has the same basic motherboard, very likely swapping drives will work. It may ask for some drivers, but should at least boot properly.

 

[Small Family Farmer]

If the system has the same basic motherboard, very likely swapping drives will work. It may ask for some drivers, but should at least boot properly.

And I guess that is the essence of the question. Do the numerous versions of laptop that are model ASUS X75A-**** have the same motherboard in common?

 

[hang-the-9]

There are so many versions of systems that you need to look at the exact specs of them to know. If the CPU is the same socket, then you have a good chance of it working.

 

[Small Family Farmer]

There are so many versions of systems that you need to look at the exact specs of them to know. If the CPU is the same socket, then you have a good chance of it working.

Just finished a chat with ASUS, all of the X75A models have the same motherboard so it looks like I'm in business. Thanks for helping me sort it out. I have some proprietary software that balks at running on anything newer than win7 (it really doesn't even like that platform) so I have to keep some variation of a win7 machine running. Seemed the easiest way to go about that was this way.