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XPS M1330 laptop Black Screens
On Sunday, July 21, 2013 11:00:27 PM UTC-4, Timothy Daniels wrote:
"Ben Myers" wrote: Check prices on used-for-repair vs a naked motherboard. Attaching a heat sink/pipe is an easy task... Ben Please excuse my density, but a "used-for-repair" what? According to your 2nd sentence, whatever it is will not have a heat sink/pipe attached. What I anticipated buying was a motherboard with Intel graphics chip, and I'd also buy a used heat sink/pipe meant for that pairin, and I'd attach it. So could you elaborate? *TimDaniels* Sure. There are both complete and incomplete "for parts" or "for repair" laptops available to buy. With Intel graphics. You can do it the hard way with a known good motherboard and a heat sink/heat pipe designed for the Intel graphics. The easy way is to buy either the motherboard already in the chassis with matching heat sink/heat pipe or an almost complete system that boots up to the BIOS. I will claim that there is little price difference here, and a lot more tedious work doing it the hard way. Also, with other Dell models, the heat sink/heat pipe from a system with nVidia graphics could be used (almost) unchanged in a system with Intel graphics, but not vice versa... Ben |
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XPS M1330 laptop Black Screens
"Ben Myers" wrote: Timothy Daniels wrote: "Ben Myers" wrote: Check prices on used-for-repair vs a naked motherboard. Attaching a heat sink/pipe is an easy task... Ben Please excuse my density, but a "used-for-repair" what? According to your 2nd sentence, whatever it is will not have a heat sink/pipe attached. What I anticipated buying was a motherboard with Intel graphics chip, and I'd also buy a used heat sink/pipe meant for that pairin, and I'd attach it. So could you elaborate? *TimDaniels* Sure. There are both complete and incomplete "for parts" or "for repair" laptops available to buy. With Intel graphics. You can do it the hard way with a known good motherboard and a heat sink/heat pipe designed for the Intel graphics. The easy way is to buy either the motherboard already in the chassis with matching heat sink/heat pipe or an almost complete system that boots up to the BIOS. I will claim that there is little price difference here, and a lot more tedious work doing it the hard way. Also, with other Dell models, the heat sink/heat pipe from a system with nVidia graphics could be used (almost) unchanged in a system with Intel graphics, but not vice versa... Ben It sounds like you suggest I buy a damaged M1330 and replace just what is damaged, assuming that the motherboard and the Intel graphics chip and the heat sink/pipe are good, perhaps transferring my M1330's working screen on it. The other implied suggestion is to use my own nVidia heat sink/ pipe on the mobo with the Intel graphics chip and figure out how to modify it when I get the replacement mobo. When I think about it, I think buying a guaranteed tested mobo with the Intel graphics chip on it and paying between $10 and $20 for the correct heat sink/pipe is the way to go with fewest unknowns. Thanks for presenting the alternatives, though. *TimDaniels* |
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