I have a Toshiba Tecra M7 that won't boot and up until this morning nothing worked. This is what I've done so far this morning WHEN it does decide to boot.
1. Power up computer from off with ESC key.
2. Released ESC key, pressed F1. Unit went into the BIOS setup screen.
In the BIOS page I changed the 1st boot to CDROM so that it will boot the OS disk
No longer a blank screen and MICROCODE, CMOS, PIT, APIC, MEMORY AND HDD CHECKED OK.
So, turned off and start up from CD to load the files
Now it starts loading the files from CD but then froze and there is nothing on the screen once again. Now I'm back to square one. It won't boot up after the freeze...
Re: I have a Toshiba Tecra M7 that won't boot and up...
Your hard drive may have gone south. Remove it and check with diagnostic software. Bad sectors in critical areas of operating system data will do this.
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You have to remove the screw covers (the black squares around the screen), remove the screws and gentley pry the cover open with yor finger nails or a flat head screw driver, but be careful not to dent the sides with the screw driver. You can then take a can of air and blow the dust out. I would not touch the sensetive screen under neath. You could take a anti static, micro fiber cloth to wipe off the tough stuff.
download win xp sp3 and install .... ur laptop should work and then download and run the "registered" version of Driver Detective ... it should find drivers specifically for YOUR laptop ... that might work ...
I have M7 restore disks made off of my M7 hard drive. I'll mail them to you if you pay for shipping and the 4 DVDs....say $15? Then you can restore and the restore tools will be restored to your computer as part of the restore.
There should be some software on your laptop to setup hot keys. You need to find it and setup the correct hot key for the volume knob again.
If thats not the problem, some computers have memory resident keyboard hot key software that loads at boot-up. Check if this has been disabled if you laptop uses such software.
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