Satellite M70-164 don't seam to work at all

I have an old M70-164 which was daily used (windows XP SP3 Home) as my work machine (not to mention the usual stuff of MSoffice and webbrowsing, I use molecular modeling software, Python interpreter and some software of image rendering, as well as be used to access a network of Linux machines).

It has been used this way for the past four years or so! Battery of died you long ago, and I never use it.
PS died too, and I use a newer version (with the same exact specifications).
A week ago, the computer wouldn't start. I noticed that the hot water heat exchanger (he found to be turned off when the Windows logo has showed - about 5 to 10 seconds after pressing the power button) and who offered to throw a poor circulation of air heat exchanger.

I backed up my data HD connect HARD drive in an external enclosure Sata USB HD and backup on my desk at home.

I took the machine apart and clean all the components (there was actually a lot of debris restricting air flow). It was in pieces, I also replaced again had heat on CPU (without removing it from the socket) and on the GPU). Put everything together and it worked fine! Can it run much cooler it is used for :-).

I decided to reinstall the OS using the cd Toshiba provided (including Windows XP and all hardware drivers), as I already had all of the saved data. No problems!

By updating the operating system (to SP3) after being prompt to restart, it did not.
I used the system restore cd, once again, and installed Windwos XP normally.
I stopped the machine and planed to do the updates the next day!

And it's my problem now!
The machine is not sewing to work at all! The LCD screen is the lightup (completely black as if its judgment).

I have to check it connected to an external monitor, but even if the LCD screen is faulty, I expect some HARD drive that is not present activities!

Did someone faced a similar problem? any suggestions?
I'm going to hook it up to an external monitor tonight and will display the result!

Best regards

Marco Preto

Hello

I m not very well what happened, but you should first try this;
Remove the battery and unplug the AC adapter.
Then wait some time (1-2 hours)

After that, connect the battery and plug in the AC adapter.
After this attempt to turn the unit

If this will not help, remove the RAM module and try to power the device using an alone module RAM

Hope this helps if not the laptop developed a serious hardware problem

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