Laptop freezes on HP logo during boot

We have a Pavilion Dv5 running 32-bit Windows 7. Today when my wife went to wake it (it locks and shuts off the screen after half an hour of no use) it instead reboot itself. When it boots, it immediately gets stuck on the screen with the HP logo.
I've tried the various key presses during startup (Esc, F2, F10, etc.). It seems to recognize that I pressed the key, because the little message in the lower left hand corner of the screen will say something appropriate to the key I pressed, but it never actually goes into Bios, or Startup Setup, or whatever. It just stays on the HP logo. It does not shut itself down, either, even after several minutes. It just hangs on the HP logo.
After reading other forum posts I tried several things. I did the HP "hard reset", which had no effect at all. I took out the hard drive and tried booting up that way, with no change at all. I tried removing each of the two memory sticks in turn as well, also with no change. There were not, before or now, any peripherals attached either.
I've run out of things to try. Is there anything else I can attempt or am I just toast? Also, does the fact that nothing changed when I removed the hard drive mean that the hard drive is probably OK (and thus I can still get important files off of it through some other channel)?
Thanks for any assistance or tips!

@MaineScott,
Hello and thank you for posting on the HP support forums. If you have already tried a hard reset and are not able to enter any of the restore menus or access the bios then you will need to contact HP phone support for repair options.
Please try the steps in the following links just in case.
HP Notebook PCs - Performing a Hard Reset or Forced Reset
As well are you getting any beep codes or LED flash codes.
HP Notebook PCs - Troubleshooting LED Blink Codes or Beep Codes During Startup or Boot
If this fails.
Please call our technical support at 800-474-6836. If you live outside the US/Canada Region, please click the link below to get the support number for your region.
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/contact-hp/ww-phone-assist.html
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