Toshiba A105 wont boot, blinking lights.

My friends toshiba A105 wont boot, it has no display, fans dont even spin up, power button does nothing. All it does is the battery and AC lights blink green every couple seconds when it's plugged into AC. tried it with the battery out too. Any idea whats wrong, is this some kind of error code? I can take it apart if I have to. I did once before because the fan stopped working and had to be replaced.

Possibly an error code. Do they blink any particular pattern? (usually four sets, ie 2-1-3-1 where each number is the number of blinks between the long pause).
WIth out knowing much more I am going to hazard a guess and say maybe power system error. The first thing I would check is the voltage coming out of your power adapter.

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Hi and welcome to the forum!
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My laptop froze a week or so ago and I had to do a hard shut down. Now it won't boot up. I see the initial Toshiba screen, then the Windows XP logo appears. But after a few seconds, that disappears and the screen remains blank. I can see and move the mouse arrow. I have tried F8 to boot in safe mode, but that just takes me to a screen that says "safe mode" in the four corners and info about the version of XP across the middle of the top. None of the other boot modes does anything either. I have also tried some of the suggestions I've found here, for instance removing the battery, holding the button, then restarting with just the cord. But no luch. I don't mind wiping the whole thing and starting over since I have had some problems with spyware, but I'd like to save my data first. What do folks suggest?
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