T41 Series wont boot/Blank Screen

Hi Guys and Girls,
My Girlfriend recently inherited a T41 from her father and I decided to give it a clean up for her as her father had no anti spyware protection or anti-virus, so after installing a few programmes like AVAST and Spybot to clear it up we turned it off and yestreday when we tried rebooting for the first time, it went to the dreaded blue screen. So my GF resetted and now it wont even boot, power is commin through, the lights are on, I can here the drive on, but screen is blank, and nothing is happening. Can anyone help? would it be caused by the anit-viral programmes? or is ther something nasty at work here? I do know that the USB plugs had stopped working a few months ago, but I thought that was due to driver issues whihc I was goin to correct..if that info helps. Thanks in advance for eny help provided

Hardware failure doesn't necessarily refer to dropping the laptop or spilling liquids onto it. It refers to the end of the life of a particular component, which would then need replacing. Laptops are not made to last forever. Everyone knows that the only thing that lasts "forever" are diamonds.
Now back to your situation, you said that the IBM screen doesn't show up. If you look very closely to the LCD while booting up, are you able to see anything?
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