Hi
@Atom80, thanks for the go-ahead on the battery. So in short I've got the system up and running again. Here is an ordered list of what i did.
• Removed the back cover
• Removed the battery. A quick note on battery removal. The wires are pretty thin connecting the bat to the male connection for the motherboard. I would really personally recommend that anyone who is not 100% keen on working around hardware to not attempt to remove this as i can see it being easily damaged. For reference i used an old dead stick of ram for leverage across the entire platform ( a perfect fit ) so it popped out easily. Do not! pull the wires for god sake they will definitely come out of the male connection.
• Left in this state for 1 minute.
• Plugged battery back into motherboard and tried to boot no sign of life
• Unplugged the battery again left in this state for one minute again
• Plugged power cable into system and tried to boot without battery. No sign of life.
• Removed power cable
• Unconnected CMOS for 1 minute just to clear the bios in case the cpu was somehow locking the system.
• Plugged battery and CMOS back in and tried to boot. Nothing.
• Cried a little inside
• Ate some Haribo
• Noticed surge protector looked.. different.
• Unplugged power brick from surge protector and placed into wall.
• Laptop turns on.
• Sigh of relief.
Conclusion? I think the mains power may have for the first time in 20+ years sent in a dangerous amount of power ripple. Causing the surge protector to trip out the power brick ( everything else on the protector was fine still up and running )
So sorry for my panic
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• Eats more Haribo.