I have been handed a dud hp dv6000, and something has to be done with it because my arm is twisted fairly high behind my back :-/. It is showing the following symptoms and I want a best guess at what's up.

When powered it runs on the following timeline
0Secs Switch on.
+10 Seconds disks start up
+25 seconds lights all die
+35 secs Switch on etc.

Eventually it stops switching off and just sits there with loads of stupid looking blue lights along the top of the keyboard. It never boots.

Nothing comes up on screen. Nada. Zilch. I have tried removing the hard drive and battery, using a boot cd, going for the BIOS,external Monitor, but none of it works. I have a UBCD, but am not very familiar with the tricks it has. It is looking at the CD but apparently not the disk. The box has a 32 bit m$ OS and a 64 bit amd turion with a puny 1 gig of memory.

Any ideas or wheezes? I have a sliughtly later turion based HP Compaq notebook myself, so a good few things can swap. I'm thinking a m/b problem, but would like to diagnose something.

A pessimist...

A likely diagnosis is death.

The fault could be the motherboard, but whatever it is, is not something with a laptop that you can do anything about.

Thank you. I concur completely. I have a misspent youth as an Electronics technician, so I became fairly practised at that, but I trust myself less these days becuse I'm losing touch. Hence the query.

The thing is 2½ years old, and has already been repaired twice. There is a possibility that one of those repairs is under warranty. I have tried other known good appropriate ram. Power dies before the HD light comes on, so I presume we're failing POST. Even changing the total ram doesn't bring up the BIOS. Now I just need the correct generation of sata connector to grab the data from the wreck.

Welcome...

I don't know if it's an ecological benefit or an ecological disaster; new laptops are so poorly constructed that their average live as a device approximates their expected life as technology. There is certainly no quality in excess.