Satellite A100 does not work anymore

Hi,
I bought a broken laptop and when I boot it up, I get very little:
all i get is 2 blue lights and a couple of red ones above the keyboars for around 1 tenth of a second.
I was thinking of resetting the bios.
I disassembled it and could not feel any heat going to processor but the board must work as the wireless card switch lights up along with start key but no fans or nothing else.
please help

First of all, I wonder why you bought a broken machine when youre not able to fix it.
If youre not a technician then sell the machine and buy a working one because no one here would exactly could tell you what to do or how to fix it.
The only posts would be like: "send the machine to an service partner" or "change the mainboard" or "sell the machine" , "throw the machine into trash"
I would assume that the mainboard is defective and needs to be replaced. I already replaced some mainboards on toshibas and its not that easy like some people think. You need some experience and often its not only the mainboard which is faulty, sometimes there is more then you assume.
I hope you get it fixed. Good luck.
Greets
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