Travelmate Problem

I have a problem with my laptop, I originally though it was a dead motherboard but now not sure. When you turn it on the fan comes on, but the dispaly doesn't neither does the harddrive, I connected a monitor but still no good.

I had it set to boot from a bootable CD, so I just happened to stick one in tonight and turn it on, it spun a min as usual when you insert a cd, then when it got to the bit in the BIOS that checks for a bootable CD it actually started to spin up like it should, Bear in mind I can see nothing

Video Here http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o...t=DSCI0002.flv

Also it has 2 sets of light, 5 on the inside and 5 on the outside of the lid, The inside lights when you attach it to a powersupply for example the powerlight comes on, but on the outside it doesn't and it used to.

So I'm not sure if its the motherboard or not, but one thing is for sure, the harddrive or display still do not work. If I remove the CD and the hard drive was working you would hear it loading up windows etc but you don't and the harddrive lights would flash. Its an Acer Travelmate 230, which I may add is less than 2 weeks old of ebay. Of course paid by cheque and the seller don't want to know So I hope someone can help

 

Unfortunately sounds like a dead motherboard to me.

While the CD drive may be spinning up that's probably just a power-on response.