Toshiba Satellite A500-132 powers on but screen stays black, no hdd or fan sounds

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Toshiba Satellite A500-132, Windows 7 (formatted 1 week ago).
So 2 days ago while my laptop was turned on i closed the lid, packed it and took it with me. 1 hour later had to use it so i opened the lid tried to power on. It did but screen was black and i could hear no sound of functionality.

Searched the web for a solution and i powered laptop off, removed power cord,battery,rams and hdd. Then kept pressing the ON button for greater than 30 seconds. Reconnected everything and laptop booted windows normally. Last night it happened again and this time the same procedure doesn't seem to fix the situation.

This whole things looks very bizzare, never heard of anything similar, i hope you can help!
 
Hi,

First, make sure that the laptop has enough charge. Disconnect the battery and just connect it to it's charger and see if it will boot up normally because it could just either be the battery or the AC adapter. If the battery and charger are both working properly it's the motherboard that is faulty already or is starting to fail.