Ideacenter B540 AIO does not boot (black screen)

I have Ideacenter AIO B540. Windown 8.1 64bit
after booting the computer, I see that the computer turns on but nothing happens, black screen. the lenovo logo does not appear- nothing. shutting it down (hard) and rebooting again - nothing happens. the only solution i found is to "let it cool" (it was not hot from the first place..) for few hours and then rebooting it and it usually helps but clearly something goes wrong.
Please advise what could be the issue?

I had an HP desktop that used to do that to me. It would randomly just shut off then give me a black screen whenever I tried to turn it back on. Usually if I let it sit overnight it would work again in the morning, at least for awhile until it did it again. At first it was once every week or two then became more frequent. It ended up being something wrong with the motherboard. A port went bad or something, I bought a replacement board for about $80 and it worked fine again. Granted it also cost me around $60 to have it diagnosed at a local repair shop, but I got another couple years out of it.

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