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    Blank screen boot fail Toshiba Satellite M55-S329

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by vovocika, Nov 26, 2007.

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    Hi, I have a Toshiba Satellite M55-S329. As I tried to boot it up in the morning, the screen lighted up in a blank whitish mode and stayed this way.
    Took out the battery, booted back, same blank screen.
    Keyboard is responsive, I tried CTRL-ALT-DEL and it rebooted but right away back in the same blank screen.
    I tried to cold boot pressing the power key 30 seconds, with no effect, gets back into the blank screen.
    I put in the Recovery DVD, begun reading it upon boot, but was stuck into the same blank screen.

    My first guess and hope was this is some sort of stand-by Win-XP problem.
    Now my guess is that this is a hardware problem, either a disconnected video card, or perhaps system board failure. Do you have any suggestions before I go to all the trouble returning the piece? ...
     
    vovocika, Nov 26, 2007
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