Toshiba Satellite P875-S7200 not booting/dark monitor

Hello, This is about my wife's laptop. A while ago the laptop was black when switched on. Nothing to be seen on the monitor. The sounds of the fan and harddisk could indicate some activity, and after a while we could hit the enter button and hear that some more happened. But since the monitor was black we had no idea what happened.The only thing we could do was forcing it to shut down by holding the on button in for so many seconds. Switch it on again, and the same thing happend. After like 10 or whatever times of switching on and off it suddenly booted normally.Everything fine, and the computer could be used as normal.Next time my wife wanted to use it, it was also normal but suddenly one day the monitor was black again. On and off many times, finaly it boorted up normally.This has been going on for a few months, until a while ago it was impossible to boot it. And, now the sort of "normal" sounds has become not so normal. The harddisk does not work and spin like before, and the fan acts up different. I went on this website, and typed in the serial number and model number or whatever it was and was taken through a troubleshooting, removing battery, holding in the on button for more than 20 seconds, I think I held it in for a minute. Connect to power supply but no battery and try to boot... well, I guess you folks have gone through all that yourself.Then I took out the memory, this one has 6 GB, and I tried to use only one memory card, no difference, and I tried the 4GB memory car where the 2GB had been, and vice versa, and the 2GB card where the 4 had been and only that, but no difference.Then I took out the harddisk and put it in my own laptpo, which is an older ASUS, and the computer booted up but came to a point where it said that it had to do some adjustments since the hardware of the ASUS was not the same as in the Toshiba. At that point I stopped because I did not want to mess up the drive and windows setup. But, at least it seemed to work fine up to that point. We have also tried to hook up the computer to the TV with the HDMI cable, and push F4 I think it is to switch from the laptop monitor to something else. The TV is as black and lifeless as the laptop monitor. So, I have been thinking it must be a problem with the motherboard. Sadly we do not have another monitor to try, and we do not have any other memory to try, and well, that is how it is. Do you guys think it is fair to say it is the motherboard ? The computer warranty is out years ago, and I have taken the hole thing apart today and have tried to look for a new motherboard for the thing. Or, can it be something else ? Thank you in advance for any help. The computer has been rather little used so it looks new and it is sad to just dump it. Best regards, Bill

Well, it has gone some time now, and here is what has happened since I initially asked my question. I got in touch with Toshiba online chat here on this website, and talked to a technician and here is what came out of it.I suspected before I talked to the person that it was the motherboard, and not the monitor, and from what I understand, if the computer has an HDMI outlet, and you connect it to another monitor or a tv that works as a monitor and nothing shows there, it is not the laptop monitor, but the motherboard. From what I understand, the HDMI is supposed to come out with a signal no matter what as long as the motherboard is ok. In my case the HDMI was black too, and well, I guess it could have been a case where both the motherboard and monitor was faulty, but at least the motherboard was faulty. The person did not advice me to do anything with it, but buy a new computer.Well, my wife liked her computer very much, and was a little disappointed the computer was dead after fairly little use even if it was some year sold.In addition she went to Staples and bought a brand new Toshiba, and it had a funky keyboard that did not feel good to type on, and the upper part of the screen was darker than the rest. Like if the background light was gone on the upper part, or not completely gone but partly.So, two Toshibas not being up to par, well, my wife would most likely not buy a Toshiba anymore even if it has been her favorite brand for many years, so I wanted to make her happy, and bought a new motherboard, installed it, and the computer came back up and is running fine. The only little minus is that the Welcome message in the beginning is gone, so no "TOSHIBA" over the screen before Windows comes on, and no way of getting into BIOS. I have no idea how to fix that, but at least the computer runs like a champ, and is as good as ever before, and this motherboard has sockets for 2 more memory cards, if she for some reason wants to upgrade. It went fine in the end, and the price was not so bad, only 157 dollars. So, it seems my wife is saved as a continuing customer of Toshiba products. I just hate it when she gets disappointed, so sad to see the suffering. Best regards, Bill

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