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

"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*