T61 reinstalling and blank screen

[cl0ne]

Hi guys here is the situation now. The system i have is a T61 widescreen 14.1". I have the original hard drive that is formatted with nothing on it. I put it in the hard drive bay along with a windows xp disc for installing and it powers up but the screen is blank. Nothing shows up at all on the screen.

What happened before:
Hard drive and computer given to me with the hard drive taken out. I powered it up with the battery and no hard drive it loads up to the dos screen and saids i do not have a valid boot device. Okay i was not ready to install the OS yet so i left it for a few days and finally today i decided that i was going to install it and plug it into the power to charge up the battery first. After it charged I inserted the hard drive and powered it on, upon powering up I only noticed the "_" on the top left corner I then inserted the Windows XP disc into the dvd rom drive. After that the screen goes blank and nothing after a few minutes.

I tried it without the cd and without the hard drive then without cd and with hard drive etc. It continues to power up but does not display anything at all. When it powers up the icons on the bottom of the screen lights on and then only the battery + the icon left of it continues to light up nothing else. I also tried to see if any of the 2 sticks of ram was bad, tried it many times and ram seems to be okay.

So the situation is that the computer powers up but the screen does not display anything, blank screen. If anyone could give me any help I would greatly appreciate it. Oh and the warranty is out

[jdhurst]

For starters, turn off the computer, wait 10 seconds, turn it on. As soon as you have turned it on, press F1 (maybe two or three times) and see if you get into the BIOS. If no, you probably have a system board problem. If you hear some beeps as you start, it is possibly the display. .... JDH

[cl0ne]

For starters, turn off the computer, wait 10 seconds, turn it on. As soon as you have turned it on, press F1 (maybe two or three times) and see if you get into the BIOS. If no, you probably have a system board problem. If you hear some beeps as you start, it is possibly the display. .... JDH

Tried it and nothing shows up even after pressing F1 a few times and holding it before starting up. No beeps or anything. Took both pieces of ram out and got a few beeps (normal i guess).

On a side note, i hear the fan start up and then stop right after when turning the computer on.