MacBook Pro 15-inch Mid 2009 failed to boot with internal display

Hi all, we recently received a MBP 15-inch, this unit won't power up, upon power up, we can hear half boot chime and immediately the unit will power off.
We manage to get it booted by removing the internal LVDS connector. Video out to DVI and Dual-link DVi tested to work flawlessly. We've done ASD on it and the following are flag failed:
Video Controller Internal: Gmux switch to EG and Verify (test #41) - Gmux switch to EG and Verify
                    - test will switch display to EG and Verify
ERROR -- 28 [Mux switching Failed...Didn't switch error] -- TEST FAILED
Video Controller External (test #41) - Gmux switch to EG and Verify
                    - test will switch display to EG and Verify
[16:21:16]           ERROR -- 28 [Mux switching Failed...Didn't switch error] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:16]           Video Controller External (test #2) - OpenGL Point Test
                    - Render Points
[16:21:16]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:16]           Video Controller External (test #3) - OpenGL Line Test
                    - Render Lines
[16:21:16]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:17]           Video Controller External (test #4) - OpenGL Triangle Test
                    - Render Triangles
[16:21:17]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:17]           Video Controller External (test #5) - OpenGL Quad Test
                    - Render Quads
[16:21:17]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:17]           Video Controller External (test #6) - OpenGL Quad with Texture Test
                    - Render Quads with Textures
[16:21:17]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:17]           Video Controller External (test #7) - OpenGL Rectangle Test
                    - Render Rectangles
[16:21:18]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:18]           Video Controller External (test #8) - OpenGL Cube Test
                    - Render Cubes
[16:21:18]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:18]           Video Controller External (test #9) - OpenGL Cube with Fog Test
                    - Render Cube with Fog
[16:21:18]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:18]           Video Controller External (test #10) - OpenGL Wireframe Model Test
                    - Render Wireframe Model
[16:21:19]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:19]           Video Controller External (test #11) - OpenGL Solid Red Model Test
                    - Render Solid Red Model
[16:21:19]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:19]           Video Controller External (test #12) - OpenGL Solid Red Model with Fog Test
                    - Render Solid Red Model with Fog
[16:21:19]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:19]           Video Controller External (test #70) - Fragment Instruction Test
                    - Tests each instruction of the ARB fragment program instruction by doing calculation and comparing actual against expected
[16:21:20]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:20]           Video Controller External (test #71) - Vertex Instruction Test
                    - Tests each instruction of the ARB vertex program instruction by doing calculation and comparing actual against expected
[16:21:20]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:20]           Video Controller External (test #72) - Fill Rect 2D Acceleration Test
                    - Tests hw accelerated fill rect by filling screen with many rects, calculating checksum, and comparing actual against expected
[16:21:20]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:20]           Video Controller External (test #73) - Copy Region 2D Acceleration Test
                    - Tests hw accelerated copy region by copying various size of regions many times, calcuating checksum, and comparing actual against expected
[16:21:21]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:21]           Video Controller External (test #74) - Copy Rect 2D Acceleration Test
                    - Tests hw accelerated copy rect by copying various size of rects many times, calcuating checksum, and comparing actual against expected
[16:21:21]           ERROR - 80000003 [Unsupported] -- TEST FAILED
[12/31/00 16:21:21]           Video Controller External (test #94) - PCIe 16 Link Width Verification Test
                    - Verifies that the pcie link width is 16
I wonder any of you faced similar issue? What was the diagnose result? Did you send to any out of warranty repair? Reflow? Re-chip?
We suspecting GPU failure, but then the unit is working totally fine switching from 9400M and 9600M no issue. Even pushing it with 30-inch external display now have yet to yield any performance issue. It's still a very good Mac with 2.8GHz and 8GB RAM. Any input to help on the recovery would be great.

These are user to user forums, your describing a serious hardware issue that needs to be serviced by Apple.
Good luck and I hope your issue gets resolved.

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