Toshiba Mini Netbook Not Booting

Hi everyone, I'm sorry if this is under the wrong category as this is my first post, but anyways I am having problems starting my Toshiba Mini NB 205 netbook. It was fine until maybe the end of May. What happens is when I turn it on, nothing happens, but the light for the power button does light up and I can hear the computers fan go on, but thats it. The display is blank and there is nothing on the screen, not even a back light. I was dual booting into Windows 7 and Windows XP if that makes a difference, but then I removed Win 7 due to its trial ending, so now every time its boots I just click on Earlier Version of Windows, the only solution if you want the computer to boot is if you wait half an hour, then it will boot fine until you try to restart it then it wont boot back up. Much help is appreciated, thanks. 

One thing you can try is to boot it up and let it just marinate for a few minutes and see if the storage light starts to show activity.  That would be consistent with a timeout selection of OS if you have a dual boot option.  Eventually the unit will select the first option highlighted within a certain amount of time.  If the storage light does start to show activity after a moment or so, you could have an issue with just the display.  Still a hardware fault though.
Other than that, it honestly sounds like a motherboard fault.  Do you have a spare RAM chip to drop in the unit to check if perhaps you have a bad chip?  Not truly sure if this would influence things, but if you do happen to have a stick around, it would be worth a shot.  EDIT: You could try to boot the unit without the RAM chip if you don't have a spare.  It may beep at you to indicate no RAM, but at least this would allow you to reseat the chip if that may have been a problem.  Worth a shot anyway.
Not much you can do when your unit gives you no video or response on boot other than send it in for repair.  If I can think of anything else, I will come back to post.

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