Asus N56VZ black screen after windows install / restore

Hi

I have a 1 year old Asus N56VZ which had Windows 8 pre installed. I decided to do a factory reset (there is a recovery partition on the hard drive) which would include formatting the C drive. The reset worked and I logged into windows 8 again.

The asus software and windows were doing updates and I left them overnight. The next morning I found the laptop on but with a blank black screen - no mouse cursor, nothing. I pressed the power button for 4 seconds to power off which it did.

I then switched it back on and it comes on but the screen is black (back light is on). There is no hard drive activity.

Now every time I switch on, I just get a blank black screen. I have tried pressing F9 or delete to get into the bios but nothing happens.

i removed the hard drive and put it into a caddy so I could connect via USB to my other laptop and copy the data across (from the D drive).

i reinstalled the hard drive into the Asus but there is no change whatsoever.

I do not have the license key for Windows or a DVD version of W8 and cannot access the bios either. In fact none of the key presses have any effect.

Does anyone have any ideas what I could do?

Is there a way to do another reinstall from the recovery partition?

Thanks :)

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