This is a problem that is happening with Toshiba laptop owners:
When I start up my laptop won’t boot to Windows.
When I tried to get to BIOS, won’t let me do this as well. I can see only the Toshiba logo. When I press F2 or F12 I got message:Entering setup. Please Wait or
Entering MultiBoot Selection Menu. Please WaitI tried ESC + Power Buton and after that F1 key. I can see all information:
Phoenix Bios 4.0 Release 6.1
Cpu=1 processor Detected, Cores per processor =2
Intel Core 2duo T5800 @ 2.00GHz
3070M System RAM Passed
2048 KB L2 Cache
System Bios Shadowed
Video Bios Shadowed
Fixed Disk 0 : Toshiba MK2552GSK
ATAPICD ;Rom DVDRom….
Mouse Initialized
Press F2 to enter Setup or Press F12 to Enter MultiBoot Selection Menubut after that the laptop just freeze but processor is still running.
I removed the HDD and tried put different one (from working laptop) – still not working
I removed the memory and tried put different one (from working laptop) – still no workingI’ve got no idea what is it causing the trouble.
I’ve got this laptop about a 2 months.Thanks.
This is due to the bios locking up, to fix this you have to unplug the cmos battery for around a minute, this will reset the bios and your laptop will come back to life!
The cmos battery looks something like the picture above and is usually around the ram or the wifi card, in order to access it you will have to take out a couple of screws but it’s not as hard as you think. Just google your laptop model and add “cmos” and you will find plenty of tutorials on how to get to it!
Im having probs my computer wont recognize the hdd well idk wat i did i let it sit and turn it on and windows boots up n i was like wtf what i did was put a ubuntu boot disk well anyway i thought it was fine now its doing it again :/ help please
Hey,
I had this exact problem this morning with my Toshiba Satellite Pro P300-1ES (Model No. PSPCDE-010009GR).
My first thought was to reset the BIOS. Your post assured me that I was right and the picture helped me locate the battery. Thanks for that!
But to get hold of it I had to almost completely disassemble the Notebook.
This tutorial helped me finding the right screws etc. It’s not the exact same model as my notebook, but the steps are pretty close.
When I reached the connector I disconnected the battery, waited some time, short-circuited the pins on the motherboard to make sure all capacitors were discharged, reassembled the notebook and everything worked fine again.
So thanks again for the hint and hopefully this will help some other people as well.
x_puma_x
Oh. I forgot the link to the disassembling-tutorial. Here is the corrected version:
Hey,
I had this exact problem this morning with my Toshiba Satellite Pro P300-1ES (Model No. PSPCDE-010009GR).
My first thought was to reset the BIOS. Your post assured me that I was right and the picture helped me locate the battery. Thanks for that!
But to get hold of it I had to almost completely disassemble the Notebook.
This tutorial ( http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Toshiba-Satellite-P305/take-apart-notebook-1.htm ) helped me finding the right screws etc. It’s not the exact same model as my notebook, but the steps are pretty close.
When I reached the connector I disconnected the battery, waited some time, short-circuited the pins on the motherboard to make sure all capacitors were discharged, reassembled the notebook and everything worked fine again.
So thanks again for the hint and hopefully this will help some other people as well.
x_puma_x