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    Satellite A200 wont boot. Help please.

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by prawnstar3000, Mar 28, 2011.

  1. prawnstar3000

    prawnstar3000 Newbie

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    Hi

    My daughters Toshiba satellite A200 will not boot, I turn the macine on and the blue power light illuminates, and the cpu fan spins up then stops, the HDD lights lights up briefly then nothing happens.

    Does anybody have any idea what could be wrong? Does the CMOS need clearing or is the motherboard up the swannie?

    Any help is appreciated, I don't fancy spending out for another one for her to break.
    :D
     
    prawnstar3000, Mar 28, 2011
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    I did not get this. Do you get a bluescreen? As in Windows? I assume that you got the before?
     
    tuηay, Mar 28, 2011
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    wlachan Notebook Guru

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    Happened to my father's A60 once. Nothing worked until I did a complete recovery from the factory CD. All data will be wiped though.
     
    wlachan, Mar 28, 2011
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    prawnstar3000 Newbie

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    thanks for your replies.

    No bluescreen, the laptop simply will not power up the power light comes on, the fan spins for a couple of seconds the HDD light will flick on and then off, and I can here the optical drive intialise, but the machine simply goes no further.

    The power light is still illuminated, but the fan has stopped and nothing is displayed on the screen.

    The motherboard is distributing power around hence all the devices trying to intialise but it just goes no further from there.
     
    prawnstar3000, Mar 29, 2011
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    Try with single RAM sticks. To be clear, I do think it is your Mobo dying. But, does this happen just random or all the time?
     
    tuηay, Mar 29, 2011
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    This happens all the time.

    I have tried with one stick of ram, no ram, no HDD, no battery just power supply, and I have tried holding the power button for 30 secs with the battery out then powering up with the battery.

    How would I go about clearing the bios on this machine? that is probably the last thing to try before I submit and admit that the mobo is broken completely.
     
    prawnstar3000, Mar 29, 2011
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    If you can find the CMOS battery you can reset the BIOS, however, I have not been able to do that on my Toshiba Qosmio. Good luck tou.
     
    tuηay, Mar 29, 2011
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    upgraded RAM 2 days ago. working well till now. Today: Toshiba logo flashed and then tblack screen + blinking cursor. Pressing F8 does nothing. Restored the old memory . Now, black screen. and nothing else. what's next?
     
    patience8, Apr 1, 2011
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