to aciddreams, sorta been there done that with all the taking apart and replacing step other than a few parts which i will probably do today. i'd use my old VC but the pc i'm on now is a P2 833mhz and 512mb of pc133 ram, think the VC will work

. I'm about to just say fock it and call geek squad at Best Buy as I know a few guys who work there and see if they'll look at it for free. Big advantage there is if they sell what I need replaced they'll usually do it for free.