Satellite Pro A200-1MA - Doesn't boot after disassembling

Thats the one so my laptop was overheating heavily and I decided to clean the cooler and the parts around it. I disassembled the laptop to the point where I can take the cooler off, cleaned it and then I put everything back. The problem is now it wont work.
It starts normally, passes into loading windows (Ive got Windows 7 sp1) and then after 10 seconds or so he just shuts down. I tried to go to bios but it does the same thing after 10 seconds. First time it showed BSOD with no explanation. Just that some part stopped working and that it needs to shut down, but I cant figure out what. CPU should be fine, it cant overheat in 10 seconds so its not cooler either, begins the Windows loading so RAM and HDD can also be excluded.
My best guess is that I connected something wrong but I disassembled it 3-4 times today and cant find something that is not connected. When I remove that upper plastic I need to disconnect this wires: speakers, on/off button, touchpad, keyboard, and another 2 or 3 connectors which I am pretty sure they are USB conns, LAN maybe etc...
So, can you at least tell me where to begin? What to check?

no, i cant boot anything. its not about the boot really or electrical damage. laptop works perfectly fine for aprox. 30-100 seconds (more than a few hours earlier when he worked 10-25 secs (?)) he starts booting, confirms that hes startup did not work properly last time. he than attempts startup repair, loads files, background changes and than you have win7 background and attempting repairs continuing to work, like he should do. and than he just turns himself off with that sound that you can hear when your toshiba a200 overheats and turns himself off.
its really weird that if i let every single wire, that i had to unplugg to get to the cpu, unplugged - the result is the same. and only thing i really touched is cpu cooler and i cant really know how could i mess something there when i have startup repair working before he shuts down. that would mean that cpu is working right?
so i think the problem here is rather trivial. is it possible that sensors send fake temperature data so he THINKS that he is overheating?
i am not professional but that laptop is 4,5 years old, has no warranty and nearest official service is 300km away from me so i cant really go there to clean the cooler. i will call them tomorrow and see if they can help me... wanted to hear your opinion first, though.
p.s. if anyone has or knows how to get service manual for this model, it would really help. the amount of support you get for this model is ridiculous.

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That looks very bad! :( it look like something went wrong during the BIOS update procedure and therefore the notebook cannot boot correctly.
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