GL-703GE not Booting after cleaning heat sink and fans
My son has an GL703GE he received as a hand me down from his cousin he's had for about a year working fine. He thought it would be a good idea to open up and blow the dust off the CPU/GPU heatsinks as well as the fans. He did this and then put it back together and had no power at all on battery or plugged in. He said he didn't unplug anything except the secondary hard drive. I took it apart with him again, checked all connections we could find (battery, memory, lcd, wifi etc) and made sure they were all fully connected. We also did a hard reset of the battery (held power button down for a full minute). After we put it all back together we then got a battery charging light (we had nothing there before) and the power button turns red and the keyboard backlight cycles from red to blue and stays blue but the laptop never finishes booting. Nothing on the screen and the fans never come one. I checked it with an external monitor, still nothing. The laptop was built in 2018 and looks to have the original battery and since the battery was not great at holding charge before (it lasted maybe 45 minutes) I'm thinking the battery has just given up, but I'm open to suggestions before we spend the money to replace it...thanks!