My laptop may be bricked... any suggestions?

Backstory: I went to play Team Fortress 2 and it crashed. I figured it was something with the server so I rebooted and went to play in a different one. It crashes again, this time not even making into an actual server, instead crashing on the main menu and giving me a taste of Vista's BSOD. I try to turn it on, but instead I get a black screen with nothing. I leave it on for a few minutes to see if it would get its act together, it doesn't. So I once again try to reboot with no avail. I eventually take the battery out of the back to reboot it when pressing the button fails. It works, and I get back into a regular boot up, and run a diagnostics on why I was getting problems. The diagnostics checks out and no problems found, so I go to try and play again, but again it crashes, freezes, and I am forced to restart. Now at this point I've learned my lesson about trying to get the game to work for the time being, but when I try to reboot, I get the black screen again, and taking the battery out isn't helping. I come to you now with a bricked laptop 2 weeks after 1 year warranty is up.

My computer's specs:

HP Pavilion Entertainment PC
17 inch 1680x1050 res
t7500 processor
180 primary HD, 320 secondary
2 gig ram
Vista Ultimate 64
2.2 ghz
8600 graphics card

I have had absolutely zero problems on it until now, no prior history of failures of any kind.

 

is the that one dv serios that has issues list on site?

below

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...7277&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

 

The HP notebooks listed go up to the 9400 series, mine is a 9500.

Gah, another lead tarnished. I am going to try and reboot with my Vista disk, I don't remember if I got one included in my package (I purchased it from Costco.com), I will see if I have it.

 

Well, I don't have the disk so that is a no go. A friend said it might have been a motherboard failure... is that plausible?

Also, I tried pressing some of the F keys to get it going, it beeps at me when I do that. And using Crtl Alt Delete turns it off.

So it responds, but isn't booting up the BIOS.

 

It sounds to me like the graphics card may be in the process of failing; although the BIOS will issue a special sequence of beeps to notify you that that is the case. It could also be a loose video connector cable.

 

I'm getting no beeps on bootup.

Fans turn on, and I get an illuminated black screen.

No BIOS beeping.

I will check the video card cable, hopefully its an easy fix like that.

 

Try stressing the GPU http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/