Whilst not car related, still something that might get someone out of a jam for a while.
I've had a fairly good laptop here for a few years, got it off a friend for spares, said it died out of the blue, though post beeps when turned on which to me says it has hope of revival.
A Dell xps M 1710, bit of research suggests dead video card as it's apparently a common thing in these.
Next problem was buying one, only ebay US appears to have plently, places I'd rang here didn't.
Then I found
this youtube video, where the punter baked his video card back to life.
Last night I stripped the laptop down to just the board on the base, cleaned the dust out of it, replaced the onboard battery, then did what that video says to do to the video card.
Then whilst putting it back together, thinking to myself, am I nuts, like seriously.
To my surprise, the thing works perfectly, even gets a screen resolution of 1920 x 1200, blew me away, still in disbelief it actually worked.
Who would even remotely consider that baking your video card at 200c for 10 minutes wouldn't fry it, let alone fix it.