Had my neighbour's Satellite 1110 for a couple of nights to remove spyware, 
malware, viruses and other sundry rubbish from the hard drive.  Defragged 
hard drive and shut down.  Popped it in the bag and took it next door.  Took 
it out of bag, plugged in and ....... not a lot.

The power light came on, the hard drive whirred up to speed as did the 
cooling fan.  The cooling fan died after a few seconds.  The hard drive 
continued to spin and the power light stayed on.  Absolutely nothing else 
happened.  I took it all to bits and nothing was obviously amiss.  It is 
getting to the stage of checking ram as it does miss it and beep if it is 
removed.

Any ideas anyone?  Or is the motherboard just toast?