d630 motherboard question?

Hello eveyone....I'm new here sorry if I post at wrong place.

I hope someone in this forum can help.
I have D630 Nvidia 135m. Now it won't turn on. Power light turns on for 2-3 sec then off. I suspect nvidia finally died. I've looked for mobo replacement at ebay. I don't want to get another nvidia mobo. Was looking into the Intell. To prevent future mobo failure with bad chipset. My native resolution is 1440x900.
Can I use the Intel chipset instead and will I be able to keep native resolution?
Anyone else done this before? Any luck?
Thanks everyone...

Mario

 

Yes you can use a D630 motherboard with the Intel GPU. Yes, it'll still display 1440 x 900. You may need to buy a new heatsink or mod your old one, but otherwise everything should fit out of the box.

 

I believe the discrete heatsink will work fine. The graphics arm of the heatsink will either be dangling or heatsinking something else, which I guess can't hurt.

 

Thanks for your input guys. I was looking in ebay for an Intel mobo and it's the DT781? I tried looking for spec sheet on mobo with no luck. Had to rely on ebay description. Should I use the thermal tape or articl silver 5? I understand there may be a gap between heatsink and chip on the video side.
Or is this mainly for the Nvidia chipset heat isue. When I took my mobo apart I noticed the video chipset already had a copper shim. I believe it was previously taken apart from someone else.

Also to make sure it should take my socket 478 Intel Core 2 Duo. Do these mobo take either the Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel Core Duo processor. I belive they are both same socket?

Thanks onced again, just want to make sure before I buy mobo on ebay.

 

You should use grease on the CPU and a thermal pad on the southbridge. The gap between the heatsink and the southbridge is quite significant. Grease doesn't work well there.

 

Thanks for the reply.
I was looking at ebay and they have several thickness.
There is the Dell UP755, I imagine it would work, and others of ranging from 1.0mm, 1.5mm,2.0mm, 3.0mm, 4.0mm etc.
Not trying to be technical but was just curious which pad would work best.
Thanks everyone for reading post, very helpful site.