Can't get my laptop running

Something has happened to my notebook and I can't figure out what's wrong. I don't want to turn it in and pay to have it fixed unless I know it isn't something stupid that I am just not figuring out.
My laptop wont really turn on. It powers up, the fan runs for about two seconds and then turns off but all the buttons on the laptop are turned on and some are blinking(Caps Lock and Scroll Lock?) the screen never once flickers or shows anything. I figured it might be a screen issue so I tried outsourcing it to another monitor and to a tv and neither worked. It's like it is stuck in stand-by or sleep mode or something.
Anyone have any idea what is wrong with it? Perhaps a hard reset that will wipe everything and start to over? Just something to get it going again. I don't care if I lose everything or not.
It's a HP Pavilion dv4-1123us and it is running Windows Vista.
Thanks

seems like a securty lock on the motherboard. near the heat sink, there is a screw. it points locked and unlock. when unlocked, laptop starts for 2 seconds, and then shuts down

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http://twentyfoursomething.wordpress.com/

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