Satellite A30-514 looks very dead

Satellite A30-514 friend is sitting right here in front of me:

1. the switch does nothing; push or pressed.
2. every six seconds a motor turns for a second
3. in the six second gaps the disk and CD lights flashing briefly, and there is a slight click
4. then the disk and CD lights flashing just until the engine is running
5. the screen shows nothing
6. I tried to get to the BIOS (ESC, F1, F2, Del, F12) - nothing.
7. a bootable CD in the drive does nothing.

Any thoughts?

Thank you, Tom

In my view, there is nothing that you can do it alone. The laptop must be verified with special diagnostics tools. Ask your friend did it last days with this laptop.

Maybe update the BIOS?

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