No image after replacing thermal paste
My HP OMEN 15 CE 198 WM was running hot so I decided to clean the fans and reapply thermal paste. I did so using a non-conductive thermal paste (Deep Cool Z5) and put everything back in. Now there's no image, neither on the laptop screen nor on an external monitor. I did forget to remove the internal battery while doing this.
This is what I tried:
- Cleansed and reapplied the paste on CPU and GPU
- Removed RAM modules, switched their positions, tried one by one
- Disconnected the screen ribbon cable and reconnected it
- Tried a lot of arcane shortcuts such as powering up while pressing Win + B, Win + V, ESC, F2, F10
- Removed the Wifi card, the SSD and HDD
- Removed the battery, pressed the power button for 60 seconds
- Removed the battery, pressed the power button for 60 seconds and let the laptop sit like that for a couple of hours
I tried all of these things at least twice. Nothing worked. This is the behavior I'm seeing:
1- Without SSD/HDD
It turns on (no screen), and does nothing until I turn it off
2- With SSD/HDD
I turn it on, it immediately turns off. Then it turns on by itself for about 6-10 seconds, then off. Finally, it turns on and remains on until I turn it off. When this happens, I can see the HDD led blinking as if there's activity happening at random intervals, much like when Windows is loading. Fans also spin at regular intervals.
I'd like to know if this is officially dead or there's something else I can try. I should mention there's no CMOS battery and the CPU and GPU are embedded, also the CPU doesn't have an integrated GPU. And yes, I know I might have f****d it up because I didn't remove the battery. However, it's also a long shot that this would've unequivocally fried the mobo. So it'd be great to explore all possibilities.
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Here's the CPU + GPU after I cleansed the thermal paste. It also shows the part number it's L10770-601 [image|3420967] for some reason it doesn't show the image when posting as a comment
Thanks a lot for your help!
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