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Update to this: I did get my new stick of ram in, as well as the power adapter. Results are the same, fan on, leds on, hdd spinning up, no display both on screen and external via vga. Could I have gotten a bad motherboard in, or is the lcd gone bad more likely? I'm pretty stumped at this...

A while ago I shorted my laptop out via an arduino tinkering session. It's an acer e5-511, the 2.16ghz model. So I replaced the motherboard yesterday, and noticed the ram had some corrosion so a new stick is in the mail. Upon boot attempt, just a blank screen. No backlight or anything. Leds...