UPDATE (2/16/2011): no bragging or anything, but I'm a systems engineering student, hence I'm quite familiar with the inside of a PC. So the update is this: I left the computer to rest for well over three months since I had no time to get it fixed whatsoever. After that, I plugged the power in and turned it on and then the infinite cycle began: turned on then off, turned on again then off again, on & off, and so on, nothing new about that. I left it in that cycle for 20+ minutes. Then I did the ESCAPE KEY trick and forced it to stop the cycle & stay on. I left the computer in that turned-on-but-doing-nothing state (monitor off but the fan still spinning) for over 5 minutes, and then... POOF! white & black lines showed all over the screen, leading me to believe that it's a video chip issue indeed. Since it only showed me white lines and did nothing, I disconnected the power, reconnected it and guess what?! Yup! To my surprise THE COMPUTER BOOTED! Unfortunately, after 10 minutes of use, the whole screen turned black, showed other color lines and the computer freezed - same thing that triggered this whole situation, but after the good ol' unplug-&-plug-the-power technique, the pc booted normally and I'm still using it to this day (a few days after the repair actually lol) though with a fan cooler under it. However, this is a short term solution to a bigger problem. The issue may still very well be there. Sooner or later I'm afraid my computer will just collapse again. Hope ...
davindageek.weebly.com Ok here is the entire video, I took near the computer that I finally found out and now I damn screw on the motherboard in this video, here's how it looks, all you have to do accept screws, where you see them, and your money.
This is a Compaq Presario V2000 someone threw. I have a power supply for this thing a little while after I made this video. I still do not have to get it running well, but I can successful.This is a Compaq notebook, I found at a garbage dump, with 512 MB DDR RAM (333 MHz), an AMD Turion 64 processor, a DVD RW CD-ROM drive, a hard drive I do not know the size, wireless and graphics card from ATI.
This is a Compaq Presario V2000 someone threw. I have a power to this thing for a while after I made this video. I still have yet to get it running well, but I can successful.This is a Compaq laptop, which I found at a garbage dump, with 512 MB DDR RAM (333 MHz), an AMD Turion 64 processor, a CD-DVD RW drive, a hard drive I do not know the size, a wireless internet card and graphics by ATI.