I want to restore my toshiba satellite 5205-s503 to factory settings. please help. i tried the whole pressing f8 repeatedly thing and there are no options to restore the computer to factory settings.

Try plugging it into a different outlet. If that doesn't work, test your ac adapter. Check the voltage for 19.5v.

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Take account of any files or programs you still want to use after the Toshiba laptop is restored back to its factory settings. Transfer the files to a backup location, such as a USB flash drive or external hard drive.


Restart the Toshiba Satellite laptop's operating system. Wait for the Toshiba logo to appear on the screen.


Press the key that brings up the hard drive disk utility menu. Depending on the specific model of your Toshiba Satellite laptop, the key will either be "0," "F1," or "F8."


Press "1" or click "Restore Original Factory Image." Click "Yes." Select "Next" to begin the restoration process.


Restart the Toshiba laptop computer when the restoration process finishes running. Follow the prompts that appear on the screen to set up the laptop's date, time and language settings.


Transfer the backup copies of the data you saved earlier back to the Toshiba's hard drive. Re-install any programs you need, such as your software firewall or anti-virus tool.

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There are four ways to reset the BIOS password you can read about here http://www.fixya.com/support/r7229632-reset_or_remove_bios_password

To reset the BIOS read the information from this link.

In case of your Toshiba Satellite laptop the easiest method would be using software from Hiren's Boot CD as it's pretty hard to open it up and reach for the CMOS battery or the jumper.

adjust brightness settings on most acer laptops u hold the FN key and press one of ur arrow keys quite often the left and right for brightness up and down hope this helps

It sounds like the hard drive is dying. I had a computer do the same thing and it turned out to be the hard drive. You should still be able to access the bios though. Try hittind either delete or F1 as soon as your toshiba screen appears.

Enable DHCP on the router.
And try this driver:
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/s240ethx.exe

Start- Control panel- Sounds and Audio Devices- In the device volume section click Advanced- Click Advanced again and check if In the other controls section 1 PC Spk mute is checked if so uncheck it If that does not work please let me know so I can help you further

- You may want to try to reseating all neccessary things on the system like optical drive,hdd,memory but before you do that disengage the power from the system like the ac and battery.

-If no..go try to remove the optical drive first and then turn the system on, then if the system boot without the optical drive shut it down and put back the optical drive and boot to bios and load the default setting and boot the system normally.