the hard drive is good I am sure the video card is going dead. Its funny and strange, his laptop worked fine in my home after I resetted all the lcd contacts and all inside the laptop. Then when I took it over to hillbilly's home, the damn video card died again. We were able to revive it so hillbilly could take out all his data from the hard drive. I hope he did just that.
here are the details:
the laptop powers up fine. The screen turns on and has a reddish tint. The the windows xp logo comes on and then the lcd turns off, dead. Now if you look closely the lcd is working but the back light is not working. So could it be the back light inverter circuit? Maybe but most likely, not. If it were the back light inverter circuit strip then the lcd would not turn on at all or would exhibit on/off pixels or simply other classic symptoms. Maybe it is the back light circuit but I have no way to check it as I don't have any spare good circuit strip laying around. The video card maybe at fault because the discoloration and then when the windows turns on and loads up the driver and forces the card to exhibit the colors and all, it simply gives in and turns off. So it maybe the video card. Now we can check it by connecting an external monitor but, like I said, when the laptop was in my home., I was able to fix it and it worked well for hours. It only died again when I took it back to hilbilly.
AZB