error messages...please help me! T.I.A

[tara09]

just turned on my toshiba satellite laptop, its been off for 4 years and is very slow and has messages of errors popping up here and there, is there a program i can put on a cd to run it in my laptop to see what errors there are? oh its vista basic

 

[ratedk]

For hardware diagnostics, you can download Hirens boot CD, which will allow you to test just about any component...

http/www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1848034/reset-toshiba-factory-settings.html