No display after powering on Acer laptop

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Last night on an old Acer 5738z Windows Vista Laptop it would freeze minutes after start up. The last time this happened it seemed to be a dust in the fan issue so today I opened it up and fumbled my way to the fan, cleaned the dust and reassembled it to the best of my abilities. Unfortunately it now just powers on to a blank display, absolutely nothing

I have tried:


  • Going back and making sure all connections are probably inserted


  • HDMI output into a different display


  • Draining the power and powering it on again multiple times


  • Starting with ram, HDD, wifi adapter (?) and disc drive removed


  • All Ram combinations

The fan is running, there is HDD activity but there are no beeps or any useful indications

I don't believe I did anything careless or harmful to any of the hardware when taking it apart but it's always a possibility

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