Hi, My nvs140m decided to go on permanent hiatus... I am well out of warranty... Any chance that the special extension for motherboard replacement still exists? I have since bought a poorly described MB that turned out to be a nvs135m...
If I cannot get an official dell replacement, I need to know how to identify my MB part number. And if possible, I would like to know the best replacement p/n's that I should look for. And actually, if you can provide a breakdown of MB p/n's and their differences, that would be better (in case I cannot find the best replacement part... I could accept 2nd best, etc...) .
I did find out how to identify the GPU but it is proving to be tough to get vendors to identify the MBs with the GPU part number.
Another thinkiedink, I believe that I found the fastest CPU for this system (Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 2.6 GHz Dual-Core) and it is working just fine on this nvs135m-128mb-2gb ram situation. I am running Win7sp1-64bit and may install, maybe, Ubuntu 64bit (latest of course). But, In looking into more RAM, I know that this system will officially support 4gb (2x2)... I have heard success with ppls installing 8gb (2x4) with BIOS-a13 or newer.
IS it possible to go bigger with RAM? I'm on BIOS-a15. i.e. 16gb (2x8).
Thanks for the read and will have more thanks for your thoughts/info!!
Take care!!!!!!!!!