Laptop not booting up

Hi My niece has a Toshiba Satellite laptop when you switch it on the Toshiba Inovations screen comes on telling you to use F2 for set up and f12 for boot manager and thats as far as it goes.Pressing any of those key does nothing, you then get a blank screen with just a white curser at the top left of the screen no boot up.
She said it might of over heated at some stage whether that has anything to do with it I don't know
Any ideas please

 

Hi, there is no connector for an external monitor and as stated f12 is the key for boot manager pressing it gets you nowhere.Pressing f8 as you do on other PCs is not the answer either.
I think you maybe right that the hard-drive is done

 

Thanks for the sugestion about removing the HD and reseating it but I have already done that to no avail

 

Are you able to create a ultimate boot cd for windows xp If your able to do this the UBCD can do test and scans to see if the HD is still readable.

here is a link on how to make one
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=261375

 

Hi job sorted something quite simple took out the memory then reseated it all is well again thanks