After Fan updated my blackbook won't start

it just sits with a dark screen.
i'm a touch worried as the logic board was just replaced by technicians.
any suggestions please?

Miss Haley: Wellington NZ? Love that town.
Try and hold down power button for over 5-10 sec. It should shutdown and then you can restart. If it doesn't restart properly, do it again and then try a "Safe Reboot" by depressing the Shift key while the MB is restart; may take time to startup, but when it does you can do some mild troubleshooting.
After that then restart normally and see if that will enable the MB to startup properly. Hope this helps.
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