Lenovo T61p – Beep of Death

My Lenovo T61p is now almost 8 years old, and today was the first time it had a real malfunction. When powered on, the screen remained blank and the bios issued a long-short-short beep sequence. This is related to a problem with the Nvidia GPU which is built into my notebook. Surprisingly, applying the same hair dryer repair method as in this youtube video solved the problem. It really worked!