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October 26th, 2004, 08:29 PM
#1
problem in Toshiba Laptop
i have a Toshiba Laptop 4080XCDT, well its quite an old one , it was workin fine frm quite a long time but suddenly frm last few days making trouble........ Anyway the problem is simply its not loading windows i can only goto to the BIOS setup n when i try to load windows it crashes rather got hanged, the problem is with the harddisk cause few months ago during my lecture it dropped frm table.
I was able to make it work, but this time after swiching off the power, the power LED is blinking contineously in orange color. since i dont have the manual with me cant figure it out wht the hell is it indicating, but normally wht these LEDs or blinking means is that it is self dignosing the problem n should contact the manufacturer or dealer. SO wht u folks say have i diagnoes the problem right or not.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man!
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October 26th, 2004, 08:51 PM
#2
I'd try reseating the memory and hard drive first. Check Toshiba's web site and see what diagnostics they have.
Does it output anything to the screen or beeps when you boot it up? Maybe try hooking it to the monitor from another computer and see if you get any output (I'm assuming your laptop has VGA out port).
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October 26th, 2004, 08:53 PM
#3
the problem is with the harddisk cause few months ago during my lecture it dropped frm table.
You don't really need flashing LED's to diagnose this do you.
Get hold of a spare HDD, ideally ready loaded with an OS, any OS, boot it up, if it DOES boot, then you know that your HDD is dead in the water.
As for recovery of data ?
It all depends on how much fiscal worth you place on whatever you had stored ?
How frequently did you back up to CD-R ?
Did you back up ?
WHY NOT ?
so now I'm in my SIXTIES FFS
WTAF, how did that happen, so no more alterations to the sig, it will remain as is now
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October 26th, 2004, 11:03 PM
#4
Foxy~
Shame on you, real men don't backup.............we use RAID1 with a RAID1 "doppelganger"
I would suggest that the young man check his battery connections and then the other devices...........something has doubtless become slightly disloged.
Otherwise, remove the battery and try it from mains power.
Please let me know what happens
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October 27th, 2004, 06:07 AM
#5
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man!
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