Nealster wrote:Laptop will turn on briefly (see the BIOS information), then immediately shut down. What is causing this hardware problem?
This series of HP laptop had the dread dying GPU for both AMD/Nvidia. What your experiencing is the dying graphics processor. But sounds like it still work but what you need to do is get a replacement to fix the GPU to reball it or replace the board. Those are your options as this point in time to do.