Ok so I just got a HP Pavilion dv6000 (laptop).
Turned it on and the screen is blank.
I can hear it going through POST, checking the cd drive…all the keyboard lights are on then after a minute it restarts (still nothing on screen) and does it all over again, like it’s cycling through POST looking for the monitor.
Leaving it along after about 25min it booted fine, turned it off and did the same thing again. Left it for an hour and it boots, turned it off and now even after like three hours nothing.
I checked the hard drive with the HP built in tool in Bios the first time it booted and that came back clean.
Verified Power is working, drained all power and tried again and still nothing. Removed then reinserted RAM and still nothing.
When I say still nothing I mean it still appears to cycle through POST and nothing is ever displayed on the monitor, the monitor shows zero signs of life, no flicker, no lighting up, nothing.
From my knowledge the laptop has not been droped.
Since it did boot up 3 times I am guessing the built in Video Card is shot.
Any ideas or other suggestions to support/refute this?
