[olug] OT: Crispy Windows Laptop-Followup

[Dave Thacker]

On Thursday 06 September 2007 19:50, Dave Thacker wrote:
> I've been asked to look at a windows laptop that "wouldn't boot".  So far
> I've determined that it won't start it's own display, but if you hook up a
> monitor to it, both the monitor and the laptop display work.  I can boot to
> a Trinity Rescue CD and see the windows drive.  Any ideas on what could be
> causing the local laptop display to behave like that?  I'll go run a virus
> scan while I wait for replies.....  :)

After an evening of working with this, I'm very confident that it's a video 
hardware problem.  It's a 3 year old HP Pavilion, any recommendations for a 
repair shop?

TIA, Dave