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Toshiba Laptop L355-S7905 will not boot up

post #1 of 5
9/16/10 at 7:04pm
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Hello this is my first post here.

I have a Toshiba Laptop L355-S7905 that is stuck on the POST screen and will not boot up. I had to do a hard/forced shutdown and now it will not make it past the POST. The F2,F8,F12,Esc,DEL will not work.

I have switched the ram sticks, I have done holding the power button to release the charge, i have taken out the cmos battery and put it back in, I have tried the bootable flash bios on cd and flashdrive (but Im not sure I made them right, I've never made a bootable cd or flash drive) and still have the same problem.

It is a Tri-boot system with Win 7, Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 12. I have used all the cds and still nothing. There have been no hardware changes in the last 5 months. I was running Ubuntu when I had to do the forced shutdown. I have taken out the HD and placed into another system and the HD is fine.

Is there something I have not tried?

"Help me Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."

Stargazzer

PS Thanks for any replies and help.
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post #2 of 5
9/16/10 at 7:17pm
I'm thinking possible bad HDD, You might also want to check and make sure that the HDD is seated properly....Boot order not returned to default
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post #3 of 5
9/16/10 at 7:36pm
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The laptop does not even make it to the hard drive. I have started it without the hardrive in and same problem. I have put the harddrive in another system and works ok.

Any other suggestions?
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post #4 of 5
9/16/10 at 8:26pm
About the only thing I can think of is to try the recovery Disks and go back to square 1...if that doesnt work it may be a registry issue...hang on someone else may have another suggestion which is less drastic
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post #5 of 5
9/17/10 at 4:01pm
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Originally Posted by Stargazzer View Post
The laptop does not even make it to the hard drive. I have started it without the hardrive in and same problem. I have put the harddrive in another system and works ok.

Any other suggestions?
It might work in another system but not this one. I would give another hard drive a shot, if you have a spare somewhere.

cheers ...
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