Complete System Failure

[kal64]

Ok, my first post and I'm thinking this is the most logical place for it. I recently installed Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit) on my Toshiba laptop, model, Satellite E105-S1402. This was an OEM version of the OS. The system is about 2.5 years old and the hard drive is about 4 months old.

I had just installed a couple of drivers mainly because I had no internet connectivity and restarted the machine and things seemed to be fine. The system was probably running a good five minutes.
Drivers installed: Wireless LAN_Intel_13.0.0.107_W7x64W7x86_A
motherboard_driver_lan_realtek_8111_vista

I was entering some text (actually updating my vista product key!) and the system suddenly powered down, not completely but to what looked like a sleep state because the screen was blank. When I try to reboot by pressing the power key, the system powers on and then nothing, no hard drive activity, no BIOS info to the screen, just power and a blank screen. If I attempt to boot from CD (stuck the Vista disk in again), the drive will spin and then just spin down again, still showing nothing on the screen.

I was thinking the drive just went bad, but then why no BIOS? Did the BIOS info somehow get erased? If so, how to replace it since the machine doesn't see the optical drive?

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[richc46]

Lets try to diagnose.
Shut down
Turn on speakers. Do you hear Vista startup?

 

[Shadowjk]

This sounds like a Failed Motherboard - Do you hear the CPU Fan turning on when your Start the Computer? And does it stay on or does it Cut off?

EDIT: Can you boot into Windows?

Josh

 

[kal64]

Fan turns on and stays on. That's about it. No booting into windows.

 

[roy69]

Remove the battery and unplug the laptop. Leave for 5 minutes.
Reboot with the machine on mains power with the battery plugged in.
Do you see any lights on the computer, are any lights flashing?

 

[kal64]

Sorry, guys. Just reread my original post. I'm also running Ubuntu on this machine on a separate partition. Meant to mention that at the top.

 

[kal64]

Removed battery then replaced and powered back up. Same result. The only light is the HD which is just a constant ON, meaning there is no activity. The only thing I hear is the fan and nothing on the screen.

With no POST, is BIOS wiped?