Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> writes: > Vid cards are notorious for failing with heat, do you have a spare you > could pop in?
No spare cards handy. The video (Nvidia) is integrated into the motherboard. > Do you hear the hard drive whirring and clacking and > booting? I think so, but hard to say for sure. > The other thing is to examine the mobo carefully and see if there are > any popped capacitors on it or the vid card. Nothing really obvious. > If all that fails, and the HD seems like it is alive, then maybe just > buy a cheap mobo and replace it, try to use the same processor and > memory if that stuff works? Yeah, that's a bit more work than I want to do. I may take it into Best Buy and have their guys look at it, I think he bought it there and may have also bought an extended warranty (though likely that's expired by now). Allan -- 1983 300D 1979 300SD _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
