przemek wrote on Yesterday, 21:45:
Is it possible to swap s2800/s2805 mainboard to other model i.e. to s1800/s1900/s2400... or other similar? Has anybody tried this? I have compared s1800 with s2800 and they seem to be different. It is difficult to find s2800 at the moment but maybe there is -toshiba case/body compatible with this mainboard. Question asked because I have working s2800 mainboard 😉
Sadly they're very different - I'm pretty sure the Satellite 1800 isn't even made by Toshiba themselves, more likely it's a Compal laptop. The compatibility of motherboards between models is a little worse than that though, there are essentially two generations of the Satellite 2800 series - the S3 version and the Geforce versions have differences in the casing around the floppy drive and I think the Geforce version added a smartcard slot. So the Geforce mainboard probably won't even fit in the earlier Satellite 2800 series housing.
MikeSG wrote on 2025-10-27, 11:54:Do these have Tualatin CPUs? I dicovered on my Satellite 1800 (factory Coppermine) that a Tuatalin CPU worked. Desktop Tualatin Socket 370.
Nope, they have an Intel 815 chipset but they're not Tualatin, just coppermine socket 495. Some of them are soldered to the mainboard too so no swapping is possible.