Macbook pro's doesn't send display to LCD or external monitor

Hi,
A few weeks back my macbook pro stopped sending output to LCD or external monitor and local apple support guys said that it had a problem in its logic board that needed to be replaced. Since my notebook was long out of warranty and the new logic board would have cost a lot, I just dumped it to my stack of broken hardware.
A few days back I was going through my old hardware and out of sheer curiosity I tried to turn it (the macbook pro) on. Voila! it did turn on however the poor thing complained about HDD being corrupt (I verified it by starting it in single user mode, otherwise it would immediately restart after displaying apple logo). I had the operating system formatted and reinstalled by the support guys.
Last night It stopped talking to display devices again and has been that way since then. Is there any hope for it or should I just scrape the poor thing? It would really break my heart since it works fine otherwise, I can log into it through VNC (I always keep a copy of VNC server on my machines) and it seems to work fine.

ishaqmalik,
Your "A1226" "santa Rosa model MBP is one of the models which suffers from a well known problem with the Nvidia 8600 GPU.
Apple have an extended repair program which involves the free replacement of the logic board of this computer if tests establish that it suffers from this issue.
Your symptoms sound very like those which the NVidia GPU issue produces (I've suffered it myself).
I'm not sure where you are based, or how long ago you took your computer in (perhaps it was before the extended repair program was instituted? ) but I think you should pursue the possibility that you may be eligible for it. There is a very good chance that you are and that your logic board will be replaced free of charge. See http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 for further details.
Cheers
Rod

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