A friend gave me a laptop because it was broken, older and they no longer wanted it anymore. Checking it out, I started it up and yes indeed it appeared to be broken, the blue lights on the media bar would light up and the DVD drive would make a little whirl noise and then nothing. The screen would remain off and as far as I could tell the hard drive didn’t kick in and it was just waiting for a post and nothing happened. A couple of hours of Googling i came across this YouTube video by “mixcatcom”. It exactly showed the same symptoms I had and a possible solution. Out came the screwdriver and a half hour later, using a creme brule torch I heated up the NVidia chip like the video showed. I put it back together (4 extra screws left over, YAY!) and to my amazement it worked! The laptop booted up to windows and everything worked perfectly.
