Alienware Aurora m9700

Hello all,

I'm trying to revive my old Alienware Aurora m9700.

Specs

http://www.techspot.com/review/9-alienware-aurora-m9700-laptop/page4.html?mobile=false

The ongoing issue that I've been having is well the monitor is off. The lights go on for power/charging and the touchpad but nothing else. M9700's all have shown signs of faulty factory LCD's but the strange part is the HDD isn't doing anything either which doesn't help. Also, the laptop is pron to overheat so reseating of the CPU/GPU and re-applying of thermal paste was done regularly during its lifetime. I certain do hope it isn't one of the nvidia cards that are messed up... I'm just stumped with this machine.

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