Satellite A300 intermittently won't start

Hi,
can any of you help with A300 which sometimes (recently even more often) just wont start/boot?
I run my A300 without battery, when I press power button
1) Fun starts
2) "Sattelite" logo on lower left corner blinks
3) HDD diode blinks
4) display wont turn on even for a while
5) touchpad lightning stays off
6) It will continue like that for ever (no activity except fan)
After couple of hard reboots it may occasionally boot and then is working absolutely fine.
Any ideas?
Many thanks!

On this virtual way it is not possible to say for sure what the problem is. Since two weeks I have similar problem on my A300. It wont start at all. Power LED blinks two or three times and it is all what happen.
At the beginning it happened sporadically but now there is no other reaction. I think problem is board power supply electronic.
On your A300 it can be the same.

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