Laptop won't turn on with AC cord attached or on battery power

My laptop recentlystopped working and now will not turn on. Each time that I try to power on the blue lights flash for approx. 5 sec and then go off and that is it. Any suggestions as to what this might be? Thank you in advance

Things to try, Remove your Main Battery Every time you touch Any Hardware!!
Make sure you know what kinda ram you have first.. DDR DDR2 and the correct speed.
Remove a stick of ram , If it has two. Try each stick by itself.
If only one stick, Borrow a stick from someone and try it.
Try removing Hard Drive if easy. and Turn it on
Try removing CDrom DVD rom and turn it on
If all else fails, You need to open it up and find the Watch battery or Jumper to reset the BIOS.
Some tiny batteries are soldered to the Motherboard and can not be removed.
But if you short out the Battery connection for a second, it will still reset the bios. DONT Try Yourself unless you know Hardware and what your looking at!
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