Uvah, did you try yrag's suggestions in reply #25? 

I'm about to Philly. All I'll be able to do though is find out how much it'll be. Wish me luck.

I have used my local PC repair shop several times just to plug in an adapter and see if a laptop boots. As Yrag said, most will do it for free. 

I'm goin'...I'm goin'. Sheesh! lol

Are you back yet?

Same thing happened to me two months ago, same diagnostic, same behaviour of PC as you described.

My friend repair it, and said :

 Too much dust in fan tunels, because of too much dust, temperature was too high and all the contacs on Video card was weak.

He has repair all contacs on Video card with Soldering and clean PC from dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnkQNmKauEc

here is video on youtube that i saw first, and after that i realise what can be problem with my PC, and than i brought my PC to my friend.

My laptop is HP Pavilion dv 9000, i think Compaq is the same build or manufacture, so it is the same pc actualy.

hope this helps

Sorry guys for my english, i know it sucks

PianoArt... your English is good enough to understand easily. Don't apologize. You did well! We all appreciate the effort.

That model is notorious for video problems. HP even got sued over it if I recall correctly.

Went twice to the store where my lap top was bought and both times it was closed due to flood damage. Had a nasty thunder storm here on Monday. Many streets flooded and several stores including Staples suffered flood damage. I'm hoping they'll re-open soon. They know me and the lap top having gone there about nine months ago to get more memory and the external HDD. Going to try again tomorrow.

Maybe your lappy just drowned too....that'll make things go 'black'....

Nah....they're gonna be out awhile I think. Been there today and they're still closed. I might have to wait until I accumulate a few bucks and take it to another place to get it checked out. Its gonna be a long frustrating haul cause of all the stuff I'm missin' out on. Boogers!

Okay, so what have you been able to find out?