Thanks guys
I will keep you informed of any news this end

the reason why i have the boards is because the poor bloke had every board in his machine (including the dmd itself) fried. Don"t know how it happened, i was going to give the machine the once over before powering it up. (machine also needs some coils replaced)
the cpu and dmd driver were that far gone even a supplier in NSW proclaimed them to far gone (its going to cost more to repair it than to replace it) so he had to fork out for a new cpu and display driver board. (CPU was a Whitestar with SMD components)
and now this happens to him