I’m hoping you guys can help me out, because currently I’m stumped. Recently my sisters computer crashed on her and i said i would take a look at it. Its a Gateway, other than that off the top of my head i cant think of any other specs. She said it turned off on her during a thunder storm and now when she tried to boot it up, the screen is simply black. No boot screen appears at all, but the monitor does seem to come on. At first I had thought it was a problem with the cpu, but now i think it may be the motherboard. I thought it might be the video portion was fried, but im not sure. Do you guys think this is the problem or, if not, what might it be? thank you for any answers.