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Having watched the video on how to fix the laptop, my Dad and I are going to basically go through it, laying out all the parts and it may come to ordering a new motherboard for it (the graphics chip and the CPU come with it) if the graphics card has essentially melted. It is a design fault of the laptop as the CPU and GPU are both on the same heats-ink and both run extremely hot side by side. Also because of lead-free solder, it essentially doesn't last as long in these conditions. When we do fix the problem (not by sticking a heat gun on top of it, burning alcohol on top of it or using a blow-torch like on many videos...) but by re soldering the graphics chip back down. If it has "bubbled" (essentially blown up) then it is the new motherboard job. It is definitely not a memory issue as the hard drives are active and the wireless chip starts up as normal. I actually made the mistake that the Wireless chip was next to the memory, not the CPU. The CPU is in fact at the opposite side of the laptop.

We will also make a modification to it as HP seem to ship the laptops with little or no heat-sink paste stuff. So, we're basically going to place a piece of thick copper over both the CPU and the GPU on top of some of that heat-sinky paste stuff that is a good conductor.

@supernova - Got a load left from when I bought a new heat-sink for my PC thinking it wouldn't come with any (but it did). I didn't want to screw it up any more, so I thought that I should wait until someone with a degree took a look at it (unlike me who would probably take a hammer to it).

@joe pesci - I'm not gonna argue, but I did clearly state that I wanted to try the RAM first to see if it was that before I attempted stripping a laptop. I have agreed with you all along (pretty much) that it may be the graphics chip.