Re: Trouble shoot with my Toshiba Satellite 3000-S353, please help!

Kevin wrote:
"T. T." <hotister@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1138920603.292912.239100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, yesterday when I turned on my Toshiba Satellite 3000-S353 laptop
(installed with Windows XP), I suddently decided to turn it off, so I
continued to press down the power-up button (the machine was not boot
up yet) to shut it down... Few hours later, when I tried to boot it up
again, this time I can't even get the Toshiba boot-up Logo to show up
on the LCD screen... Here is the condition and symptom:

1. [Condition] As my Toshiba battery was dead long time ago, so I'm
only using the AC adapter to power up my Toshiba Satellite laptop.
2. [Symptom] After I pressed the power-up button, the internal fan
inside of the laptop does start to spin and make the noise, but there
is simply NO Toshiba logo and the hard drive won't boot up neither...

It is a reasonable guess that maybe the AC adapter is dead?? I know
that there are a lot of cheap/defective switching power supply out
there for the desktop PCs, but I have no idea whether the latop AC
adapter could also go dead... any suggestion for the trouble-shooting
procedures?? Thanks!

I would be surprised if the AC adapter were the problem. They usually last for years. Try to get the laptop to boot into Safe Mode, if you can. Even though you can't see anything on the screen, the laptop may still be booting. As soon as you power it up, hit the necessary key to access Safe Mode. It could be the F4 key or F8 or the Delete key or even the Escape (Esc) key. I don't know which key the Toshiba uses.

If you can get into Safe Mode, you should be able to check out Device Manager to see if there is any problem indicated there. As you have now discovered, quitting the power-up process suddenly is not a good idea. Windows does not like that.


It could be that is lcd has died. He says it 'makes noise'. Perhaps it's actually booting up, but he can't see it.

OP, I'd suggest you start by attaching an external monitor and powering up the machine. If you're lucky, yours is one of those machines which detects an external monitor upon startup, and switches on the VGA port. If not, there is a function key combination to enable it. (Tricky, if you're not used to it. Tap the function/F-whatever key *once* and wait a few seconds for some result. If none, repeat--at least three times. The sequence is usually: LCD, no external monitor > external, no LCD > both external and LCD...in that order)

Conversely, look at the laptop screen under a strong light to see if you can detect any activity. The backlight could simply be dead. (Reportedly, you can use that method. I've never tried it.)

If the above doesn't fix things, I'm out of ideas.....

jak

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