My Toshiba Satellite A215-S7437 will not boot. Unfortunately by "will not boot" I also mean will not boot to bios, in addition to not booting normally. Essentially, when the power button is pressed, the power light comes on, but the screen does not. I can tell that there is a little hardware acceleration, (HD spinning a little), at first when the power is turned on, but it stops pretty quickly. -I'm assuming this isn't a so much a monitor issue since I never hear any boot noises from the laptop. -Trying to attach an external monitor via VGA does nothing. -The fan that is normally on when the computer is turned on, (the fan over the heat sink on the left side), isn't on during any of this. Is it possible that fan died and the computer won't boot because it checks for that? Or could the fan have died earlier and the heat caused internal damage? It's the only thing I can think of at this point... Thanks for any insight you can give.

A disk error is a fatal error on the hard drive, SMART monitoring will show you this in the BIOS, restoring to factory settings will not cure it.
You need to get a new hard disk and reinstall your OS

reinstall video driver , upgrade memories

The Toshiba Satellite A215-S7437 Notebook PC, is one of the Satellite A215 series of Notebook PC's. It is a fancier version of the A200 series.

Pictorial guide to disassembly of the A200/A205 series,

http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/toshiba-satellite-a205/laptop-disassembly-1.htm

[Note* Page 2, 3, and 4, are listed at the top, and bottom of the page.
In white; Page1::Page2::Page3::Page4::Find another model ]

Service Manual for the Toshiba Satellite A215 series of Notebook PC's,

http://www.tim.id.au/blog/tims-laptop-service-manuals/#toc-toshiba

Under the main heading - Toshiba, go down to the subheading -
Satellite A10. (A10 in blue)
Go across, and click on A215. (In blue)

This is a PDF file. The computer you are using now has Adobe Reader on it, which uses PDF files.
After you click on the file name { A215 }, it may take up to 30 seconds before the first page comes up.

The motherboard diagram follows this diagram,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Motherboard_diagram.svg

The CPU is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 TL-58, (Turion Core ), mobile Processor,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_mobile_microprocessors#.22Tyler.22_.2865_nm.29_2


Processor has two processor cores that can operate up to 1900MegaHertz, or also stated as 1.9GigaHertz.
(1900MHz/1.9GHz)

Does Not mean a total of 3.8GHz.
Total is still 1.9GHz. It's just two processor cores teaming up on the same task.

Chip and Chipset denote I.C.
Integrated Circuit.

The motherboard chipset is an ATI RX-690 (Southbridge chip is ATI SB600 )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_690_chipset_series

For additional questions please post in a Comment.

Regards,
joecoolvette

go to laptop technicians and make them flash ur laptop bios

boot up in the bios by pressing delete then check that you are booting from the harddrive

BIOS is set to password on....
did anyone make changes to ur laptop....
if so then only he can unlock it....as BIOS passwords cannot be unlocked....they are embeded in the BIOS microchip...
only a BIOS update can undo it...and that's very RISKY...

My Toshiba A215 starts up but won't boot from any source_CD,external floppy, hard drive,etc.. I swap memory,CPU,hard drive ,nothing works,have any one got any solution?//
THANX

there is no actual password. you need to remove the ram and short out two pins underneath the black plastic they look ike two E's connected like E3. use a flat blade screwe driver. do this while powered off!

Try cheking the Bios Settings Before Runing the Recovery CD.
Is your computer's bios set up to boot from the cd rom or hard drive first?
If so, try changeing the setting so the computer boots from the CD Rom.

You should first check if the pasword is set on the hard drive. If so you can simply change the hard drive and it will then boot and ask for the operating system disk. If not, you should try by removing the cmos battery and waiting at least 10 minutes. (this works on older laptops) however, the laptop's power suply cable and battery should be removed prior to performing this procedure.