My girls mom got us laptops she found at a sale. Their both Toshiba Satalites. Looking for someone that will get them working again for us.The one she wants worked good for around 6 months then one night she tunred it off sat it down and walked off about 30 mins later she came back and turned it on and it gave a blue screen and stopped working. No clue what happend to it. I was sittin in the same room and nothing touched it. Now the one i want to use for just tuning worked good but the prevs. owner had windows on it and it was locked so i just bought a new HD for it and for some reason it wont load the windows cd or anything just gives a black screen with a blinking line. We went out and bought Visa to install on them and we cant get it to install on any of them.
Dont put vista on em, it just makes everything worse. I know someone with a Satallite that had similar things happen, not sure what they did if anything but it went back to normal a few days later. Maybe check the graphics card for the one with the blue screen?
I think the one with the blue screen needs a new HD. I have a newer Satellite. My best suggestion would be to try and reformat both of them and if the one still doesn't work try a new HD.
with yours if it is locked to get into the normal windows put the old hard drive in with the os that is locked and boot it into safemode and then you can go into the login options and change the password to whatever you want
Sounds like you may need to re-image everything...where in Pa are you, I can help you out.
custom_z22 * wrote:Dont put vista on em, it just makes everything worse.
Vista is THE DEVIL!
Im a Xbox 360 fanboy...and damn proud of it!!
thats what she wants on it. i tried to talk her out of it but shes dead set on vista and bought it the other night. Shes now thinkin about just buying a new laptop so that means i get 2 tuning laptops lol.
im in Dornisfe, PA 17823 about 40 mins north of harrisburg.
It wasn;t that it was locked with a password but the windows reg key was wrong for that windows so it wouldn't d anything
blue screen of death is normally a memory issue
probably fried the motherboard, better off just getting a new one. just try taking out the battery and putting it back in.
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^^^ Sounds like motherboard. If putting the motherboard through a hard reset doesn't fix it, you would be better off buying a new one. Motherboards cost damn near as much as the whole thing.
Take the laptop apart, look at the motherboard (thing everything connects to). Should see a small battery in there, take it out, wait 30 seconds, and put it back in then boot up. That's a hard reset.
Also, before you install Vista, make sure the laptop can handle it. Most systems with XP aren't designed for vista, plain and simple. Windows XP = 32 bit OS Vista = 64 bit. There are 32 bit versions of vista, but it was designed as a 64 bit OS. I don't want to go into too much detail, just make sure you check the specs and do some research. You will need at least 1g of ram to run vista at the minimum, and there are other factors to consider.
Ryan Shissler wrote:My girls mom got us laptops she found at a sale. Their both Toshiba Satalites. Looking for someone that will get them working again for us.The one she wants worked good for around 6 months then one night she tunred it off sat it down and walked off about 30 mins later she came back and turned it on and it gave a blue screen and stopped working. No clue what happend to it. I was sittin in the same room and nothing touched it. Now the one i want to use for just tuning worked good but the prevs. owner had windows on it and it was locked so i just bought a new HD for it and for some reason it wont load the windows cd or anything just gives a black screen with a blinking line. We went out and bought Visa to install on them and we cant get it to install on any of them.
- First of all a blue screen is usually caused by a recent change in software/hardware or drivers. Are you able to boot the computer into normal mode or safe mode at all? If so, go to the c:\windows folder, you should hopefully see a mini dump folder which keeps track of all of your blue screens and any other system failures. Sounds like if you can get it to boot into safe mode (press F8 during startup), you may be able to perform a system restore and see if that works. Outside of that I would need to look at the laptops to diagnose further, but it definitely doesn't sound like it's trashed or a HD or MB issue.
PM me if you interested in getting more assistance, I have my associates in computer networking and work in the field.
um this thread is like 5 months old.... but thanks guys. the laptops are just sittin in the closest now. havn't messed with them in awhile.
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