My Toshiba Satellite 4010CDS Laptop never gets past boot. When I turn it on it goes to the Toshiba splash screen and never goes past that. The hard drive makes a lot of noise when I turn it on also. Thank you very much in advanced.

There are a number of stages to go through. For all these please ensure that the laptop is switched off. First, remove the battery, then plug the mains charger lead in and try to boot, if you get past the splash screen than it is the battery at fault, if not then the next step is to switch the laptop off close the lid and turn it over, on the bottom you should see an access door with either one or two screws, open this access panel up and remove the hard drive, turn the laptop back over and try to boot up again, it should go past the splash screen and the detect that there is no hard drive installed, if it dose not get past the splash screen then turn the laptop back over re install the hard drive, try again to boot up, if still no good then try removing one of the memory chips, these are found under the same access panel. Try again if still no go then remove the other memory chip and replace the first one you took out. If no joy after all these steps, then sorry I have no further suggestions. Good luck.

hi K Smith.
Here are some troubleshooting steps that may help in identifying the issue.
- Start by doing a hard reboot, remove the battery and unplug its AC adapter then press and hold the power button for 20 seconds and see if it will boot up.
- If these will not work remove the HDD then boot it up and see if it will still get stuck at the BIOS screen or not.
- If it doesn't get stuck on BIOS and boot onto a black screen that means it's the HDD that is faulty.
- If it does get stuck on BIOS even without the HDD that means it's the motherboard that is faulty.
- Last trick you can try is to remove the CMOS battery for a second then put it back in.
- If all these will not work you'll need to send it for a repair if its still under the factory warranty
or.
1) Unplug the power cord --> Remove the battery --> Hold the power button for

60 seconds --> Connect the power supply then try to switch ON the laptop and

later put the battery back into the laptop.

2) If the problem still exists then get it checked out.
or read up some more at this link.

Toshiba satellite c660 stuck on windows splash Google Search

From the description your hard drive is the issue, have it tested to see if it must be replaced.

Try getting to the bios screen, if you can get to the bios screen then I would imagine the hard drive has failed. If it is hanging up at the toshiba splash screen and not allowing BIOS access, then I would lean toward a motherboard failure. Are you attempting a boot from the windows disc?, is that why you are trying F12? I have seen my share of these Toshiba M35's just give the Toshiba splash screen when there has been a motherboard issue. Changing out the main board will fix this particular problem. I had not found another solution for it.

Hard drive is shot. replace and then re install operating system

Try to download the full package of drivers from the following link
http://www.xpvistasite.com/satellite_4010cds_47758.htm

Less than four months old (still in warranty), just back from hard drive replacement (recent service issue). Take/send it back as this is a warranty issue.

If you're working on the computer when that happens, it's not probably a power setting. Try to update your BIOS to the most current version at the toshiba support website (support.toshiba.com) & see what happens. Fixes the issue most of the time

I hope this helps.

reset bios to default try installing fresh system