20 Most Recent Toshiba Satellite A135-S2276 Notebook - Page 8 Questions & Answers

Alright, I found some information pertaining to use of the recovery partition. It's far too long to post here, so I'll ask you to download the instructions from Toshiba.

1. Visit the Toshiba Support Website.
2. Press, "Product Support."
3. Click on, "Laptops," then click, "Satellite," then type, "A135-S2276" into the Model Finding Filter.
4. Click on your model and press GO.
5. Click on the second User's Guide link.
6. If the option is available, download the guide. Otherwise, scroll to page 58.

To ensure you're looking at the right page, this is a small piece of the page:

Getting Started
Hard Drive Recovery Utilities
Hard Disk Drive Recovery using the recovery partition
You have the options of recovering your system using the Hard
Drive Recovery partition to the factory-set default....

CAUTION: If you decide to use this method, all files that were saved to your computer since you bought it will be LOST! I only recommend this method if the files on your system are of no importance to you or if you have backed them up to some form of removable media (CD, DVD, Flash Drive, External Hard-Drive, etc...).

I'm posting this as a solution so that the link I posted will actually work. However, if this doesn't solve your problem, we can continue debugging the situation just as easily as before.

Let us know how things turn out.

If you have access to an external monitor, try connecting it to the laptop. If you have video, then press and hold the Fn key and tap the F7 key. This toggles the video from LCD only to external monitor only to both in three taps. If you still have no video on the LCD but you do on the monitor, shine a bright light on the LCD display. you may see the video displayed. If so, then you have either a bad back-light or a bad LCD inverter in the laptop display. I would suggest replacing both to be on the safe side. A bad LCD can damage the inverter and a bad inverter can damage the LCD.

I would look in the BIOS set up for caps lock on/off as it could be there.
Hope this helps.

find:
Intel Matrix Storage Manager-Floppy image and use nlite program

there is no way to reformat it with out a disk sorry you will need a disk to reformat it

Rapidly press F10 when you first start up. Your recovery options should come up. If it doesnt come up then youll need to order a set of recovery discs from Toshiba.

Erm if i can understand this correctly, you have purchased a new HDD.

You will need to install a operating system on this for it to work.

You need to log into bios and then set options for BOOT from CD as first....

then...insert windows disk and follow on screen instructions.

let me know how you get on

I'm going to assume you're either running some anti-virus, Vista/Windows 7 or both.

If you're not on Vista/Windows 7 then it's your anti-virus that's probably blocking it.

• Add your webcam software to the exclusions list (if possible)
• Turn off you're anti-virus and see if it works than.

If you're on Vista/Windows 7 and you don't have anti-virus:

• Run the program your trying to use your web cam with Administrator Privileges (that is, right click it and select the option "Run as Administrator".

If it's both, then you're going to have to experiment a little with the tricks above to see the problem.

It sounds like you have a start up problem,
Try a start up repair 1st. If start up repair cannot fix the problem or detect a problem try this.
Soon as you power up your laptop keep tapping F8 until another screen comes up. Select safe mode with networking and see if it loads. If it loads go to google and type in TDSSKILLER.EXE and download the exe not the zip to your desktop. Double click on the TDSSKILLER icon and install. Once installed scan your computer for errors. Once scan is complete select cure. After curing please reboot your system and try to boot in normal mode. If this program doesnt sort the problem out you may have to reinstall windows. TDSSKILLER is free and a great utility to have on your desktop. Hope this helps, If you need any further assistance please feel free.

Solution #2 (April 15th 2008) fixed it for me. Very easy to do and my Fujitsu Amilo whatever plays everything fine on full screen again. Thank you for your help.

You can reformat your computer by using your recovery discs. Please keep in mind that if you reformat your computer you will be unable to recover any of your files that are currently on it. If you are able to, backup everything you can. You can use an external harddrive or a flash drive to get files off if you boot from a Linux LiveCD if you have access to a working computer with a CD burner and a CD. Post back if you need any help with that.

Do you have the recovery disk for the laptop and have you tried starting up in safe mode?

turn off lap top for a few min. then turn back on.

Is this happening with all the USB ports on your laptop? If it happens on all of your USB ports it's possible the host controller was overloaded at some point and has simply been burned out. This is one of those problems that need to be seen by a technician unless you have a high degree of computer knowledge.

You can start with the Device Manager found in the control panel. If there's a yellow (!) next to any of the hardware listed, you're missing a driver.

If all the drivers are in place there's a possibility you have a damaged connector and it's causing a short when you connect anything to that port (if this happening in only one or two ports). And just because you have one problem doesn't mean you don't have two.

To reset the BIOS password follow my instructions from this link.

You laptop could be overheating.
When the CPU overheats then it will shutdown (i.e. thermal overload) and won't boot up again until it has cooled down.If this is the problem is not fixed then the CPU will eventually fail.
A faulty fan causes this problem or the fan and heat sink assembly are cloggedwith dust.
Check the CPU fan to see if it spins freely, if not replace the fan. If the fan and heat sink is clogged withdust the remove the dust and make sure the vents are clear and dust free. Use acan of compressed air to do this.

Hi,

This is an overheating problem with your laptop. There is three ways to slove this problem, one is to buy a can of compressed air from any local computer shop and spray it into the fan grill at the back or side of your laptop and around the grill on the bottom this should clear most of the dust out of your laptop and stop it overheating. Second would be to hoover around the grill and fan area which should remove enough dust to keep it on a bit longer. Third option which I would only advise if your comfortable to do is to open the laptop up and clean it out by removing the fan and removing all the dust etc. If you wish to do the third option please let me know and I can talk you through it.

Hope this helps feel free to ask me anything if you dont understand.

Was this error by any chance received after you tried to upgrade VISTA to SP1 or SP2 (service pack 1 or 2)? I had the same problem. After spending two hours with Microsoft Online Support, the final solution was to restore the factory default with a recovery option, typically from the restore D: hard drive or recovery disks. In my case, I pressed the F8 key during startup to activate the restore option from the D: drive. Lost all my data, but at least the computer worked like it did when it came from the factory. Hope this helps.

I'm not 100% sure whats going on, but i had a similar problem with my sisters computer the other day. The head on her hard drive crashed, which means that the part that reads the disk literally crashed into the disk surface, digging a groove and rendering it unreadable. It waould continuously reboot after that. The fix? buy a new hard drive. consult a professional and have them look first before you do that; ii don't want you to spend all that money on a new drive and have it still not work.

You can try to Repair your Windows using the Windows installation CD (for Repair choose R when prompted). You can let the automatic repair to try and fix it, if that doesn't work upon restart reboot and start the Repair again, but this time select Command Prompt or Console and put in "bootrec /rebuildbcd" without the quotes. If you don't have Windows installation CD you can try downloading Hiren's Boot CD and try to fix the bootmgr with the utilities from the disc: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/