Here is my story I have a friend's IQ 770 and I took it mostly all apart. He had green lines and green squares everywhere and it would only load into safemode. So I took it apart (pain in the ass) and got the covers and screws removed. However when I was trying to take the Heatsink off both the CPU and Graphics card I got fed up and damaged the copper heatsink and bent a few cpu pins. I got to this part.........(I have idea #1, and #2)

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April 19, 2009 4:44 PM  (From a member named Tom)
Hang on, there's no need to go out and purchase a new video card yet. I completely lost my video display on my IQ770 (although i could get the display on an external monitor, which originally had me confused). I reasoned that there must be dual video sources for the system, so I cracked it open and took a look at it. If you get the case opened up (difficult enough I know), you will notice there are TWO connections for the LCD display on the motherboard. One is provided by the video card located in the PCIe slot, the other by the on-board video provided by the Nvidia chipset on the motherboard. By default the display is connected to LVSD_1 (the connections are all the way forward on the motherboard). There is another connector labeled LVSD_2 that provides video from the motherboard video source. If you relocate the connector from LVSD_1 to LVSD_2, voila, you should now have video from the motherboard. The only thing you really lose is the 256mb dedicated video memory from the GeForce card. You can also play around with the connection for the external (miniVGA) monitor connection. They are on the right side of the moboard (looking at the system from the back). There are two connections here as well. By default, the external connection is hooked up to VGA_2 (moboard video). By moving it to VGA_1, you can test your external monitor on the video provided by the video card. If your external monitor worked flawlessly before you changed the connection, and doesn't work now, it's a good time to start looking for a new video card. Or, just switch everything to the onboard video connections (be prepared for slower video). Happy TouchSmarting!

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Idea #1

Yeah So i need to either buy a new S1 socket CPU and put a new heatsink/fan on this thing.  The CPU I could buy online, but the heatsink was in the corner by the powersupply, and i was thinking of putting just a passive heatsink on it. (Kinda confused of what I should be looking at for heatsinks.) Would appreciate a similar link/picture to what I could buy online. I still wanted to be able to put the back cover on it if possible, so any heatsink may have to be pretty thin if it sits right on top and not in the corner where it was.

I took out the Graphics card, cpu, heatsink and fan. I was thinking to just do the onboard graphics idea.

Anyways....

I always thought that 1.6 Ghz this thing was  to slow with Vista. I

Idea #2

I know I could put a new heatsink and cpu in, but the thing is too slow for me.

Is there a guide on how to remove the monitor from the whole casing to use just as a monitor? I would rather just make a new tower build and use this nice monitor (minus the touching) for a new rig.

Thing is the conncection, which I havent looked at extensively is new to me. I'm sure rewiring of some sort is in order.

I can follow directions on what cabling to get, what splicing to do, adapters, whatever it takes. I just am not sure how it would still power on and how to connect it to a different motherboard.