My uncle dropped this off at my house as a recent 'curbside find'.
When powered on, the power light stays amber, no post. Doing a little googling, it seems to be very common for these boards to do this. I've even seen some listings on ebay for Inspiron 2305 motherboard repair (specifically reflowing the GPU), so I suspect thats probably the cause of the failures.
I have seen some projects from time to time where people have used old laptop screens as PC monitors by buying adapter boards for the LCD ribbon cable (to convert the ribbon cable to VGA/DVI). Wondering if anyone has tried something like this with the all-in-one PCs, or are familiar enough with the disassembly of OEM PCs to have an idea of how universal the LCD cables are across models.
When powered on, the power light stays amber, no post. Doing a little googling, it seems to be very common for these boards to do this. I've even seen some listings on ebay for Inspiron 2305 motherboard repair (specifically reflowing the GPU), so I suspect thats probably the cause of the failures.
I have seen some projects from time to time where people have used old laptop screens as PC monitors by buying adapter boards for the LCD ribbon cable (to convert the ribbon cable to VGA/DVI). Wondering if anyone has tried something like this with the all-in-one PCs, or are familiar enough with the disassembly of OEM PCs to have an idea of how universal the LCD cables are across models.