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HP laptop locking up, out of idea's!

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Hello all I am new to posting on this forum but not new to looking for answers. I have a problem with a laptop I am working with Here is the symptoms

locks up, on boot up and will shift the display to the right and lock up or the display will just go crazy looking and locks up, on bios, os install and will not get as far as the xp boot logo and stall.

What I have done so far,
test the hdd, tried another know good one.
tested all the ram and dimm's and with know good ram
tested with out hdd
reset bios
tried booting from cd-rom


Device
hp pavilion dv2120us

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Looks like you've got a bad motherboard.

------------------------------ Sager NP5793 | T8100 2.1GHz | 4GB DDR2-667 | 8800mGTX 512MB | 320GB 5400rpm | 1920x1200 17", 24" | Win 7 x64
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