Satellite A200 wont boot up

My Satellite wont start up at all. No Bios. When I turn it on there is some activity from the harddrive, two beeping sounds, then nothing happens. It has worked fine up until now, no overheating issues that I know of. Sorry if it isn't enough information, I'm not sure what factors could have caused it.

Hi
My first idea was to remove the battery and to disconnect the AC adaptor and to wait for about 30min.
But it seems you have already tested it. Is it right?
Hmm. This is really a difficult situation if the workaround described above will not help or didnt help then I dont see any other way as to contact the Toshiba ASP and to check the notebook.
I mean this issue could be caused by any of the parts on the motherboard.
So we can talk about what this issue could be but only the notebook check could provide an 100% answer.
Greetings

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Im overseas atm, so I really want to try and resolve this problem by myself.
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I check everything has nothing to report ...
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internal hard disk
CD-ROM
LAN
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my pc probably lack a forgotten entry in the factory or whatever ^ ^
if someone has a solution ^ ^
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+Message was translated by google translator+

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