Alienware Area 51 M9750 dead ?

hi
i have taken a Alienware Area 51 M9750 in px on my old dell xps gen 2

was in full working order 2 days ago and now will not boot up

the spec is
Intel Core 2 Duo T7600
2.60 GHz
4 GB ram
320 GB hard drive
2 SLI Nvidia 512mb 7950GTX
running windows 7 64bit


The machines powers on: You can hear the cd/dvd drive initialising and various lights like the wireless come on, but there is no hard drive activity and the screen stays black. I'm know the hard drive is ok though as it works in a external drive

i was thinking it maybe one of the 7950's or the motherboard

anyone got any idea's on how i can test any of it

thanks

 

I have the same problem, and when i asked around everyone said it was the video card. I haven't gone so far as to buy a replacement. And all other tricks I tried didnt make it any better. It is looking like it could be dead; sorry for your loss

 

i am takening the laptop apart later as just looked at one of the video cards and smells like its bunt out and is very idark and i cant move the fan on the heat sinck at all its locked up so think the fan has give up and its clooked the gpu

going to be ordering one on friday i think and just hope it fixs it

 

Ahh.. I know that smell, fried M9750s. I've had so many
If you're lucky, the Slave video card has died but the Master is ok. This fault shows the same blank screen.
Remove the slave card (leaving the master in), then give it another try. It's the card furthest from the CPU.

 

have taken the Slave card out and still the same
one of my mates has asked me if i want to swap the m9750 for he's m7700 d900k what is all working so just going to do that as miss playing css

 

The D900K will keep you warm at night , good machine but noisy.

 

yep the d900k seems good i have got it here now been playing l4d 2 on it
its got the twin core amd and the nvidia 7800 256mb along with 2gb ram
seems good and the nvidia card is only 4 months old as he's old one burnt out