i told a friend of mine that i'd look at her laptop before she gives it to the hacks at cc for the issue of her screen not lighting up. i don't believe it is the vid card. i think the pc is going straight into sleep mode upon boot. all of the lights are staying lit when i hit the pwr button, and i can hear the hdd start to wind up, but immediately stops. the three lts in the rt corner of the front that i assume represent the sleep timer (clock), the power (lightning bolt), and the hdd (disks), flash on, then the hdd lt goes out when the spinup sound stops, almost immediately after boot, and the timer lt stays on. i'm wondering if the piece is going straight into sleep mode. this is an hp pavilion dv2000. out of curiosity, i pulled the two sticks of ram and booted, trying to get boot error beep codes, but none chirped. any suggestions are appreciated, but any replies to this will not be seen until tomorrow, as i'm off to work. tx in advance. ~s

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