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Repair it!
Let it go. Sell the parts on eBay instead.
I just bought a 15" Gateway with practically the same specs as yours for $499. So the HP repair bill is out in my book. I would not venture to repair a laptop. They are like swiss watches. Everything is tiny.
In any case, I would take it apart first and see how much I broke before buying the bits. LOL.
my desktop is almost identical specs, (1Gb less ram, the graphics card is probably worse than yours, and has a smaller hard drive) and i payed £200 for it (minus screen) so no, there is no way i would pay the HP bill... in my money it works out to the same price as the whole damn system,
I'd attempt a repair. It's not too bad working inside a laptop. I've done a full motherboard replacement on a couple of laptops before, and the worst part of it is just remembering which screw goes where