Thinkpad S531 - No Beep / Black LCD

Hi Community,
I have a 2013 Lenovo Thinkpad S531.
Everything was fine the first 2 weeks.
But then suddenly after beeing switched off for longer time or in hibernation mode the laptop did not start up
properly anymore.
Symptoms:
- screen is black/off/blank
- no POST BIOS beep
The only thing that helps is unmounting the RAM and reseat it.
I am running linux with a 3.11 kernel on it. I deactivated secure boot and uefi is switched to legacy. Further I deactivated Intel Rapid Start Technology since I use the internal SSD as swap.
I think it could be either a bios problem or a motherboard defect.
Has anyone else experienced something like this?
Regards
voltage531

Hello Voltage,
I have exactly the same issue : Lenovo S531 bought in september 2013 and it fails to boot (the fan and the leds wake up on power, but the screen keeps black and doesn't load the BIOS). I didn't change anything in the BIOS parameters as you did.
Did you solve your issue ?
Regards,
Fred Martin

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