That makes sense, given the number of times I've swapped displays. Any thoughts on why it's no longer booting past the HP splash screen?
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> My experience with HP Pavilions that exhibit no images on the screen but work with an external monitor is that the video cable between the motherboard and the display is bad. It looks good but it gets damaged right at the spot where it passes under the hinge. A new cable is about $15
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> Subject: [Simply Computers] HP Pavillion DV8000-series laptop
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> This customer's laptop is driving me nuts. Hard drive and display were dying, replaced the hard drive, reinstalled from a disk image, repaired Windows XP, it was working fine. Took me a while to get the replacement display as the supplier sent the wrong part first. Replace the display, the new display doesn't work. Double-checked with the old one, it was still functioning as well as before. Got the supplier's permission to open it up to check the cables, they were fine, so the supplier is going to replace it.
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> So I put the laptop back together with the old display, and now it's not working. Display does nothing. Connected to an external monitor, that works, but the computer only gets as far as POST and the HP splash screen -- I can hear the hard drive spinning, the hard drive access light flashes for a while, then stops. The CD drive lights. No response to the keyboard, doesn't do anything else. No beeps. I swap out the RAM and make sure it's seated properly, same thing.
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