W520 No Longer Boots After POST

Out of the blue, when I opened up my W520 it just stayed at a black screen and saw no hard drive activity. I had to power it off and when I turned it back on it showed the Lenovo splash, then the Intel PXE boot, and then saw a cursor blink once and then it just stayed black. Waited about 20 minutes and still the same thing. The bluetooth light stayed lit, but that was about it.
Did this about 3 more times and still the same thing.
I took out the hard drive and verified that it was still working on another computer.
I'm about to take a Windows 7 repair disc and see if there is some boot issues, but I can't even get the Safe Mode screen to pop up.

Looks to might be an issue with the hard drive after all. I put in a known working Hitachi 2.5" drive that had Windows 7 on it and it booted right up.
So right now, I'm making a repair disc for Windows 8.1 to see if it is an actual Windows issue. If it doesn't find anything, I'll have to run HD diagnostics.

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