W500 cant boot blank screen. help.!

After setting, the bios default graphics card to discrete. My w500 cant boot up.. No display at all and only left 2 light, charging led and the.one beside the battery both stable.. Anybody know the work around or are there any ways to reset the bios? I tried blind hitting f1, then f9 enter and f10. Nothing happen...

there is no detailed step by step. You have to reflow the ATI GPU. For methods of reflowing, i think you can look on YouTube. You would need to remove the motherboard to do this.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/3017167411_f761dac4d6_o.jpg
this is the location of the ATI GPU without the heatsink.
Since my T500 and W500 were stolen, i dont have any machines to take a picture of the approximate heatsink location.
Regards,
Jin Li
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