Laptop failure

[SuperHyperMegaTurbo]

So, my HP Pavilion dv6 laptop stopped working last night. 

I was doing some writing, and mid-sentence, my keyboard stopped doing anything. The trackpad had stopped working as well. 

I don't think it was a total lock-up, since the cursor in my word processor was still flashing...

If I remember correctly, I could also plug in a flash drive and see a notification pop up... but otherwise, I couldn't do anything. 

 

I turned it off with the power button (which is an instant power down, I've done this many times before without breaking anything) and tried restarting... but the screen shows nothing. The power light and keyboard lights come on, and the CPU fan is going, but otherwise nothing seems to be happening. 

 

I figured this could be my solid-state drive failing, so I swapped it out with my old hard drive, but that yielded nothing. 

Next, I tried taking out one of the two RAM modules (2 GB each, hopefully one is enough for boot... if not actually starting Windows 7) in case one of them had failed, but no combination of one or the other in either slot changed anything. 

 

At this point, I'm thinking my AMD Phenom II 2.8 GHZ dual-core processor probably finally has gotten some sort of critical damage, probably heat damage. 

I've kept a close eye on its temperature using Core Temp software, so it wasn't getting hot at the time, nor has it been taxed much lately at all... 

But it does run at 140-150 F (60-65 C) just about all the time, it's not a particularly cool-running processor, so it may have just been it's time to fry. 

 

Any thoughts on any other possible causes for something like this? 

 

(EDIT: Oh yeah, I've had the laptop for about 5.2 years at this point, and I used it every day for most of that time... if something broke just from age, I wouldn't be surprised, though I've kept things like the heat sink cleaned and such...)

[BelgiumCastGijs]

try plugging in an external keyboard and mouse, maybe the connection between your keyboard and trackpad got damaged or something...

[SuperHyperMegaTurbo]

try plugging in an external keyboard and mouse, maybe the connection between your keyboard and trackpad got damaged or something...

I should have tried that before turning it off... won't help now, unfortunately, since it doesn't seem to boot properly now. 

[BelgiumCastGijs]

I should have tried that before turning it off... won't help now, unfortunately, since it doesn't seem to boot properly now. 

If you still have the warranty, use it... otherwhise try to get someone from your neighbourhood who does some laptop recovery like things... He might know a bit more about it

[AresKrieger]

If you still have the warranty, use it... otherwhise try to get someone from your neighbourhood who does some laptop recovery like things... He might know a bit more about it

Yeah neither of those things will work, as the laptop is 5 years old and he lives in the middle of nowhere and is likely the most tech savy person near by (I know him irl)

 

I actually told him to post here as I couldn't think of anything

[BelgiumCastGijs]

Yeah neither of those things will work, as the laptop is 5 years old and he lives in the middle of nowhere and is likely the most tech savy person near by (I know him irl)

 

I actually told him to post here as I couldn't think of anything

I'm out of ideas as well... I'd recommend getting a new laptop but it depends on how broke you are.