Hi,

On 07-16-2004 tiztruej reported in this post, hislaptop did not boot at all. I have a similar problem here.

When I start the laptop, the green "power" indicator led turns on, and swiftly I see the HDD led flas on. When I plug in AC power, the battery led starts flashing green every ~10 seconds.The HDD, CD rom and cooling fan spin up, but then nothing happens... the screen is pitch black...

First i thought the battery was dead, so I took it out and tried to start with just the AC power, same problem.

Then only with the battery in... same problem.

I started googling around and found out it could be a 'reed switch' problem, so I unplugged the touchpad from the mainboard... unfortunately same problem. (of course no leds were on at that time, as they are getting the power from the same connector.

I also took out the cpu to replace the cooling paste, you never know if the cpu is overheating, as I've had this on a similar laptop... again at no result. During this cooling prcedure, I also re-seated the graphics board, it's well connected.

I suppose the mainboard, cpu or RAM has died. Only thing I can check tomorrow at work is RAM, I do have some working dimms available for testing.

If anyone can give me a clue on solving this, it would be really apreciated! Any suggestions on replacing the battery or AC power will be ignored... tested them and they're fine. 

Thanks in advance.

Arjan