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Dead Alienware m7700a Aurora

post #1 of 6
12/22/08 at 11:13pm
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Well, my nice blue Alienware Aurora m7700a was working fine until about two weeks ago. Had her on, went to see my mom in the hospital, and I come back to the black screen of death. Tried to re-power it on and well, it never posts, no video, but it's getting power.

My specs are:
17" L.C.D. Screen
250 Western Digital Drive, SATA (Operating System)
250 Toshiba Hard Drive, SATA (Storage)
AMD Opteron 180 Dual-Core
nVidia 7900GTX 512MB Video Card
Crucial Memory, 1GB x 2
HP UJ-120 Blu-Ray/CD/DVD Drive
HP Lightscribe CD/DVD Drive
Windows Vista Home Premium

The barebones kit was purchased off of eBay. All other components were new. It was working until that sad day a couple weeks ago. Plugged in running off of a/c power with laptop cooler under her. I'm so sad, so used to getting beautiful framerates at max settings playing World Of Warcraft.

Any suggestions?

-Brian
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post #2 of 6
12/22/08 at 11:14pm
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I have a spare m7700a motherboard that I tried and that was not the solution. Kind of bummed because I was almost certain it was the problem.
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post #3 of 6
12/22/08 at 11:14pm
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I tried a brand new AMD Opteron 180 processor fresh out of the package and still no dice.
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post #4 of 6
12/22/08 at 11:16pm
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I took someone's advice on here in a different thread concerning replacing the heatsink. Apparently, the temperature sensor can go bad on them and cause similar problems to what I'm experiencing. Unfortunately, this wasn't it either.
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post #5 of 6
12/22/08 at 11:16pm
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After unplugging the hard drives and all other non-essentials, it still is not posting or anything. No video, nothing. Could it be the video card?
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post #6 of 6
12/22/08 at 11:18pm
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I thought it was a grounding issue with the video card (a friend suggested it) so, I reseated it, but it's still a paperweight. I'm guessing it is the video card. =( Shame that I paid so much money for it being a 512mb and all. And these are hard to find. Might have to settle for a 256mb.
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