Surface 3 will not post

Question

Recently, I was given this old Surface 3 tablet. I was told it isn't in working condition, and that seems to prove correct. But, I can power it on. It won't show the boot screen, but I know it's on, because I can make it buzz with the home/windows button on the tablet. There's no USB power nor power to the keyboard that came with it, and I've confirmed the charger to work as well. I tried all the things you would typically find on the internet, the CMOS reset with the volume and power buttons, the freezer and CPR trick, I even held the power button down for 15 hours with rubber bands, as apparently my friend had success with that- No dice. Now I'll be honest, it's probably hardware failure at this point if all those didn't work. But, I'm posting here to ask what I should do to go about getting this tablet working, or just what I should do with it in general if I couldn't get it working? I think it'd be a nice machine to have around my house, as sort of an in-between from my phone and desktop computer, not to mention the previous owner may have files on there they need so I would like to get those off without going through the frankly painful process of taking it apart and harvesting the SSD. Any ideas, suggestions, help, it's all appreciated. Thanks :)

Answer 1

The machine type is capable, it is simply that the motherboard is fried.

Answer 2

That machine is junk and just throw it away. The Surface Go is the current replacement model for the Surface 3.

Answer 3

I know it's not particularly amazing, 4 GB of ram and a quad core atom are pretty telling, but I've ran windows 10 on similar specs, and really all I'd want the surface for is video streaming and some drawing on the side. Still though, I get what you're saying.

Answer 4

Figures, oh well, thanks.