hp dv9843cl bricked, won't start BIOS

My dv9843cl will not start, refusing to even go into BIOS, even though the screen turns on. This is suspiciously similar to what happened to my last laptop, and I suspect that a faulty graphics chip is at fault. I was playing Team Fortress 2 shortly before it crashed, and it was performing poorly, and occasionally making random colored boxes or random interference appear on the screen.

Unlike my last laptop, however, I'm not sure if there was a recall for the graphics chip, and since I bought the laptop in 2008 from Costco without anything other than the standard warranty, I'm probably not eligible for free repairs, right? -_-

I'm going to call hp support and see what they say.

 

Have you ever heard about my digital life?
they have some procedures on how to recover bioses...
whether your bios is phoenix, insyde, etc...

i think here is the link...
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/2105-BIOS-Recovery-procedures

here's the link for more recovery procedures...
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/forums/25-Bios-Mods

 

There is nothing to recover, it won't even go into BIOS.

 

That you can't see anything does NOT mean that the BIOS isn't starting.

Lose that per-conception.

What happens if you connect an external monitor and play around with whatever Fn-key settings that switch between the lcd panel and the external monitor?

Do you hear the hard drive/fans starting up? Do the drive lights blink? If you put a CD into the optical drive does the drive spin up when you try to start the machine? Do the power lights turn on when you push the power button or when you have the power brick connected?

 

FN+F4 on this machine will switch the display to an external monitor.

 

if you bought it between may and december 2008, you should still have warranty since costco extends it to two years, otherwise, this site should help you:

HP Lies: The nVidia Defect