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When was the last time your sister's laptop worked without any problems?
Last night. Nobody did touch it, till today I went to power it on. Things were OK before that.I suspect the problem is a tiny German Cockroach that has been there (it came out when I was disassembling the HDD). I can't determine just by eye-checking if the hardware is damaged.
@Matthew Wai
1- No (manufacturer's logo)! Just a black screen then for 2-3 seconds that BSOD appears and disappears, black screen till (fan is on, HDD led is working) till I shut it down.
2- I did remove the HDD. I did test it, and I did install it again.
Bad video adapter, bad MB, bad memory. Try to find a bootable media thumb drive like I suggested earlier. At this point, other than your resident German roach, it's all guessing.
Windows 10 bootable thumb drive didn't work. BIOS setting is faded, and I gave it up.
The laptop owner came here (my parent's home), after about 30 seconds the conclusion was that I would borrow money (from my mother) to buy a new one for her!
SOLVED! BTW, I am trying to find malfunctioning hardware. My guess is discrete GPU. I want to know what caused it to make me a debtor! Fortunately, the HDD was OK, otherwise, I wouldn't be here!
Many thanks to all of you that dedicated your time to my problem.