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    Laptop turns on. Screen does not power up but fan and hard drive spinning.

    If you haven't had any luck yet, do this: remove the battery and the charger cord. Press and hold the power on button for about 15 seconds. Then replace the battery and plug in the charger cord and attempt to power on. If you get your display back (or even if you do not) this sounds like your...
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    Gateway ne56r52u laptop new hard drive issues

    It sounds like your usb drive is not being detected, or the copy of windows 10 that is loaded onto it was not loaded correctly or is in a non bootable state. Try to get a DVD disk of Windows 10, or another USB drive that has a known bootable copy of windows 10 on it. Or the best bet would to be...
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    Black screen on toshiba satellite laptop help

    Sounds like you've went through all the preliminary troubleshooting pretty well all ready, and from what you've described here, the graphics adapter is bad. It might be fairly cheap to get a used mobo for that model on Ebay, or if you are comfortable with the 'reflowing process' you might give...