Recent content by M1AYM

back to not working at all..

Yes the BIOS was from Toshibas European site. Since the re-flash, I now managed reset the CMOS last night, loaded the defaults, reset the clock etc. and it seems to have booted at least 10 times now, so I’m hopeful once again. Maybe the combination of the flash and the clearance of settings has...

An update... Tried the Hard drive in another machine via a USB adapter - No issues. Tried another HDD in the laptop -still fails to boot intermittently. I was fairly convinced this was a driver or controller issue but after a few more days of testing, I think the HDD refit is a red herring for...

Sound advice D_Know_WD, many thanks. I’ll have a look for the drive specific software. I guess what has thrown me was I was expecting that the screen would go through its Toshiba splash and then bark that it couldn’t find the OS in the event of an HDD fail rather than just no display at all...

I have a Toshiba L450d which starts with a Blank Screen. If I remove and re-fit the hard drive it fires into life, but once powered off for more than half an hour or so it seems to start with a blank screen again. In the fail condition, the CPU fan is running but there is no display. Ive tried...