Toshiba Satellite L775D-S7210 - Won't boot, Power & WiFi LED lit

I have a Toshiba Satellite L775D-S7210 laptop that refuses to boot properly. I've owned this laptop for about 4 years and this problem just happened a few days ago. It can turn on, but it leads to a blank screen (as if the lcd is disconnected from power) and only the small Power indicator and WiFi light is lit while the others are off.It does not show any BIOS or POST screen. While it's on, I can hear a electrical whirring sound coming from the underside of the logic board, and the Optical disc and hard disk exhibit accessing activitity. Then, after a few seconds, the CPU fan starts running. This laptop stays powered on forever and the only way to turn it off is to hold the power button or remove the charger or battery. The events that occurred before this blank screen problem was a simple file transfer between the internal hard disk in IDE mode and a cruzer glide 16gb flash drive. Nothing out of the ordinary, just your standard drag-and-drop file transfer. When i completed this file transfer, i rebooted the PC into the BIOS settings. I was going to install Windows 7 fresh, so I went to the setting that had the options for AHCI or IDE, and changed it to AHCI. I saved the changes and rebooted. On the next boot, I got a blue screen error while it was loading the old Windows 7 partition that was left there. It crashed and rebooted.On this next reboot, the laptop could no longer boot and showed a blank screen with just the power light indicator on. And, nothing else would work after that (usb, keyboard, etc). It just stayed blank. How could have this problem have happened? It was very, very random and out of nowhere. How could a change of the BIOS settings cause this corruption? I am not sure if the BIOS needs to be reflashed; I am unable to access the BIOS because the LCD display or externally attached display never prompts with the boot logo. What could the issue be? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, - forestvenue

I had a customer with the same issue. Said it prompted him to update bios. Afterwards, it came up with "starting windows" and just a few pixels of the windows logo cam up and then froze. Couldn't boot to safe mode either. Called toshiba and they recomended restoring the system to factory settings. But I didn't end up having to do that.
Toshiba said it was set to FAST BOOT which is why no POST messages came up. This can be set using the hwsetup utility, but that means booting windows. So, I was going to restore to factory condition.
HERE'S WHAT FIXED IT
To go into system recovery, press and hold 0 (zero) while turning the computer on.
1st, I didn't have the power supply (customer didn't bring it to me) and the power light just blinked 4 times.
After getting a power supply I turned it on holding the 0 down.
This gave me the chance to press F2 to go into BIOS settings.
Set BIOS settings to defaults. Then DISABLE THE FAST BOOT FEATURE (didn't record where that was in the menus)
Saved BIOS and rebooted and windows started!
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