Computer won't work after reboot

I have a gaming laptop (specs in sig) and it's been working just fine for me for a long time. However, last night I rebooted it after leaving it on for about 3 days and the computer won't work anymore.

When I boot up the machine, I can hear the windows sounds but I see nothing on my screen. I attached it to an external monitor, no picture. Regular laptop monitor, no picture. I hit the FN+F3 to swap windows displayed but nothing works. However I can randomly click on my desktop icons (by guessing where they are) and hear my mp3 files playing if I manage to click on it correctly. When I shut down the computer, i can hear the windows log off sound.

Basically everything appears to be working fine, except I can't see anything at all. Any ideas as to how to what the problem is or how to fix this?

 

I am guessing a bad GPU. I have read in a number of places where that GPU particular series is faulty. I would RMA it.

 

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Well I be damned the nVidia Geforce 8xxx issue still lurks.
You have a faulty Geforce GPU.
I agree with cloudbyday, do what he says because he is right lol =D

 

Yep, there's yer problem, GPU just fried. They've all started failing around the exact time nVidia and other people predicted. 2-2.5 years.

 

Yeah, sounds like a typical GPU failure, unfortunately, they can just happen like that, sometimes with no warning; as you found out.

 

i'll look into the RMA with the manufacturer. my laptop is 2-3 years old and not protected under warranty anymore. what sort of costs will i be looking at?

 

new machine, there are kludgy home-repair methods that require you to strip the mobo out and bake it, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

 

Yeah the price would be totally outrageous. You could try and look for a local small shop that fixes computers and get an estimate. Then you can decide whether to have it fixed or not.