Mac Book Pro video out (no signal to tv)

My six month old Mac Book Pro has been working fine sending out a video and audio signal since day one. Two days ago I now get no video signal out of the same video adapter and I also don't get an audio signal out of the speakers nor out of the ear phone out port.
The computer and screen work fine
What can I do before I take it in to an Apple Genius for a probable logic board replacement?

X423424X wrote:
But mini-DVI? The 5870 has a full-sized DVI port, not a mini-DVI port.
Nope, I believe that there are two mini-display-ports and a full-sized DVI port on the back of a ATI Radeon HD 5870 according to the Apple Store. What I meant was to get a DVI to VGA for £2.99 of eBay and see what you are doing wrong. This might show that one of your working monitors with Display Locations 1&2 on your 5870 does not work on Display Location 3 on the 5870 meaning you have a faulty connector or the entire 5870; hopefully not the latter.
If it the first, then it is fairly easy to replace the connector it is feasible. Even though there are quite a large amount of pins to solder; these parts are readily available. I have done this to one 5870 and two EVGA Nvidia GTX 460 SC cards after they were damaged due to a berk of a friend when he removed them from his gaming-PC.

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