Dead Lenovo laptop

[millturn]

I have a Lenovo x201 thinkpad, I picked it up and it was warm on the bottom like I had been using it but it was just sitting there plugged in to ac. When I opened it up to use it was dead with no lights or any signs of life. Googled the problem and tried removing battery and pressing the power button 10 times and holding the button for 30 seconds, replaced the battery and nothing happened. Then they said to try using it on ac with no battery but that failed also. Has anybody have any idea what else I could try and if there is any way to recover any info on it?
Thanx

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

It seems like a hardware problem to me already, your motherboard to be exact. Please do try these troubleshooting steps.
- Start by doing a hard reboot, remove the battery and unplug the AC adapter then press and hold the power button for 20 seconds then try booting it up again.
- If this will not work, do test the AC adapter if it's working properly. Remove the battery and power the laptop with just the AC adapter connected and see if it will boot up or not. do also try a different AC adapter that has the same voltage and see if it will work or not.
- Proceed with reseating the RAM's if trying a different AC adapter will not work, remove them all for couple of seconds then put them back in making sure everything is seated properly.
- If it will still not work, connect an external monitor and see if you'll get any display from it. If there's a display on the external monitor that could mean that the problem is the built in display.
- But if there's still no display on the external monitor that means the problem lies in the motherboard.

 

[millturn]

Thanx for the info Laptop Nerd, I have tried all that except the external monitor. I priced motherboards for it but they cost almost as much as the laptop did so i guess I have a really big paper weight.
Thanx again