Equium A60 Power cutout after a few seconds

I have a Toshiba A60 notebook, but recently, after having Windows crash with the blue screen of death, I have been unable to power the unit up again. The first time it reported a problem with a PXE cable and hung, when I tried again it switched on and stopped. No screen, no POST, nothing. Now when I press the power button, it switches on for for 2-3 secconds then powers down. Anyone got any suggestions for this problem?
Many thanks

Hi Chris,
This sort of behaviour usually occurs because of over-heating and an internal thermal trip cuts the power to prevent damage to the unit. usually this will reset after a few minutes. The long term soultion is to clean the CPU heatsink of accummulated debris (use a vacuum cleaner hose against the air inlet grilles).
If the power LED is blinking then there may be problems with the notebook itself and you will need to refer to an Authorised Service Partner to have it checked out.
The reference to a PXE cable would indicate that the unit had failed to find a bootable OS on the hard drive or a CD/Floppy so was trying to boot from a LAN connection. Since the normal convention is to boot from a hard drive first this could indicate a problem with your hard drive, but even so you should still be able to power on the notebook and access the BIOS.
regards,

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