Laptop died - help?

When you say it made normal boot up sounds, do you mean you heard it booting into windows? You heard the chime?

Also when your screen was black, did it have black lighting? or was just power off black (different from the display showing the colour black).

Your motherboard doens't SPIN, the only moving parts in your computer are your DVD/CD drives and harddrives...and fans.

If it was a ram problem, when you turn on your computer you shouldn't even see the red "Toshba" when you turn on the computer, just power on black.

It could be a problem between the connection of your monitor to the video card, in this case you should see power off black.

You can also try starting the computer with just one of the two 1GB sticks and see if it solves any problems.

Running a memory test on your ram sticks could also help to determine if they're faulty or not.

I don't think RAM gets "stuck"

I just bought the RAM sticks 5 months ago, which is why I'm pretty sure they can't be faulty.

When I power up the computer, all I see is power off black. Nothing changes on the screen.

When I say I hear normal boot up sounds, it means I hear the motherboard making sounds like it always does signaling it just started up. When I talk about it "spinning," I mean that when I put my hands on the area over the motherboard, I can feel vibrations from something working below them, and when I power off the computer they stop. So that's my computer novice diagnosis that my motherboard isn't fried.

But when I talked to some compy-savvy friends, I was told I probably fried a capacitor on either my video card or something to my display monitor by powering down with just the power switch.

As more information to possibly help solve this problem: I've hooked up the computer to an external monitor while powering it up, and it shows nothing either. Apparently that means the monitor isn't the problem, but the main computer itself is. GG =;=.