Tecra A8 won't boot passed bios

Hey

I have a Tecra A8-EZ8512X that I am working on, and it turns on fine and everything. But it won't go passed the bios. No matter what I set it to boot off of (cd hdd etc.)

All that happens is I get a

"Check system. Then press [F1] key."

which I can push f1 and go into the bios, I can change all the settings around but no matter what I do it won't boot up, or even boot off a cd.

Is there some kind of hot key that I need to push while trying to boot off a cd or something? The hard drive seems to be fine, all I can assume is that the motherboard is bad but it seems it may be fine and there is just some error somewhere or I am missing something.

Anyone have any clue on what I can do to fix this?

Thank you in advance.

Mark

 

can anyone confirm that there is a series of short beeps right as the laptop powers on and displays the toshiba logo?

they're too fast to count them out but I am trying to narrow down the problem

 

Try with a different hard disk. If problem persists, hard drive connector on motherboard might be dead.
You can change the boot device order from the BIOS menu (F1 during boot up).
Might want to give Toshiba support a call.