Another Pavillion will not boot up - Tried all of the obvious solutions

I am also unable to boot my Pavillion dv6110us succesfully. Started yesterday and it a bit odd. Former support guy so I tried everything I that came to mind.
I see only a black screen
there are no beeps
there is no power to my optical mouse (only a quick flicker when I first power up)
there is some internal sound from HD and OD as if it wants to do something but nothing further
I have tried an external monitor and see only a black screen on it as well
I have powered off several times and restarted with and without the battery in place
I have tried the F10 and other key oriented startup options and nothing has changed; there is only a dead screen on the laptop.
I have a bootable restore CD but the laptop will not (or cannot) use it to boot
It seems to go to the dark screen more quickly than it would normally take to boot
The blue hard drive light on the front of the unit is not lit
What am I missing??

DV6000 series have failed motherboard issues.
This is a common problem on that model, you might consider sending it in for repairs
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Symptoms may include the following:
Weird colored screen (grey, green, red etc..
Scrambled or pixelated screen
Divided split screen (2 screens up to 12 split screens)
Screen black however backlit
Screen black with no backlight however blue lights come on the quickplay panel
Turns on then shuts off immediatly
Turns on and beeps 3 times (1 long and 2 short)
Turns on, black screen and keeps restarting by itself
White or grey screen sometimes with horizontal lines
Press power button and nothing happens what so ever (seems dead) (mostly on DV2000 models)
Intel models boot to backlight but no screen
Cant load Nvidia driver, can only run in VGA mode
Screen works but no WiFi (does not show up in device manager)

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