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I have a new Toshiba Satellite A210 with Vista Home edition installed . I downloaded and installed Windows Vista OS patches to bring machine up to date. Now when I boot the machine, the windows shows the standard Toshiba and Vista booting windows. But once it has booted the screen shows completely black, although the standard mouse cursor shows and responds to touchpad movements.
I have tried pressing F8 on start-up and getting Windows to restore the system to a restore-point before I donloaded the updates. The restore says it works. But the black screen problem remains.
Reading various blogs, some talk of Toshiba hardware problems and CPU settings as a possible solution. I can't set the CPU settings as I have a black screen!
The laptop has no personal data on it yet (being very new) so a process to restore laptop to factory settings would work for me.
All help gratefully accepted.
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The drivers for the Card Reader should be in? Open Device Manager and check Card Reader. Did the Laptop come with Windows 8 or did you do a OS upgrade? Try Toshiba Support : http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/generic/SUPPORT_PORTAL/
You need to go to the Toshiba website for your location at this location: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp# and select "Download" then type "M45-S331" into the search box. I would suggest you download all the drivers for Vista and install them. Good fortune to you.
You cannot uninstall Windows Vista, but you can reinstall your previous operating system, which then replaces Windows Vista. To reinstall your old operating system, you must have the original installation disc. Back up your programs and files, insert the installation disc into your computer, and then reinstall the old operating system. To regain the hard disk space used by Windows Vista, reformat the disk during the reinstallation process. After reinstalling your previous operating system, reinstall your programs and files.
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