Satellite Pro M10 suddenly stopped starting or to reach the POSITION

Hi all, hope someone can help or advise me on what to do.
My Pro M10 suddenly stopped starting or to reach the POSITION.
When the switch is pressed, green light turns on and stays on and that of about it, no display and not even the rotation of the fan to the top. :(

Funniest, it is the battery always fresh and is fine.
As you know, this model is out of warranty now and I'm technically minded and disassembled laptops before so I don't mind open my machine.

Just thought I would ask here first before doing so.
Hope someone can point me in the right direction of what's wrong, have heard a rumor that the M10 with a video fault, but surely would not stop the machine POST'ing would still.

Thank you very much
JayZ

Hi Jay,.

Difficult to pin-point your problem remotely as you will understand, however, I expect the laptop either emit a series of beeps (in a type long, short of the boss) or else Flash HQ led to give some clues as to the reason for the failure of the POST.

First I'll try to remove/replace the modules of RAM, hard disk and also the optical drive to see if it improves the situation. Otherwise, I would tend to suspect the motherboard failure.

Kind regards

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