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Recall of DC−in Plugs Used in AC Adapters for Certain Toshiba Laptops 22−June−2018 On June 22, 2018, Toshiba announced a voluntary recall of certain DC−in plugs used in some AC Adapters due to a potential burn hazard. Toshiba sold the affected DC−in plug as a part of AC adapters used with new laptops and as accessories or with replacement AC adapters in the course of repair from December 2009 to July 2012. Toshiba is offering a free AC Adapter replacement for ones with the affected DC−in plugs.
If your AC adapter’s DC−in plug is subject to Toshiba's recall/replacement program, Toshiba recommends you turn off the laptop and unplug the AC adapter immediately. Toshiba encourages all customers affected by this recall to contact Toshiba for a free replacement. For more information, please visit It is important to note that these affected AC adapters (2−pin) were not sold and distributed by Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd.
However, affected AC adapters that are currently located within Toshiba Singapore's supported region will be provided with a corresponding compatible replacement. CANVIO™ Series (Products, DTW1xx, DTC8xx, v73600-x, DTD2xx that contained Pogoplug® PC) Cloud Engines, Inc. Announced Pogoplug® PC for Toshiba Users will permanently cease operation and support on September 30th, 2017 at 11PM (Pacific Daylight Time) and new user registrations will be disabled as of June 1, 2017. Toshiba will permanently cease support at the same time.
This change applies to all Pogoplug® products including but not limited to the free cloud storage services, the Pogoplug® Backup Software, Pogoplug® Remote Access, the Pogoplug® web application, and Pogoplug®’s mobile apps. After September 30th, 2017 at 11PM (Pacific Daylight Time) any data still remaining on Pogoplug®’s servers will be permanently destroyed. Cloud Engines, Inc.
Web Page Notice: Please be sure to back up your necessary data stored in the Pogoplug® cloud storage services to your local storage devices before September 29th, 2017 at 11PM (Pacific Daylight Time). If you require assistance, please contact support by emailing [email protected] or by emailing Pogoplug® main support line, [email protected]. Applicable Products that contained Pogoplug® PC for Toshiba users.
Product name Product image Product label image Model Number CANVIO™ PREMIUM DTW110 DTW120 DTW130 CANVIO™ CONNECT DTC805 DTC810 DTC820 DTC825 DTC830 CANVIO™ CONNECT v73600-A v73600-B v73600-C v73600-G v73600-H CANVIO™ SLIM DTD205 DTD210 To request Toshiba’s support, please contact TOSHIBA’s hard drive and storage products support page CANVIO is a trademark of TOSHIBA CORPORATION. POGOPLUG is a trademark of Cloud Engines, Inc. Intel Firmware Vulnerability 17-May-2017 Intel Corporation (“Intel”) announced that there is an escalation of privilege vulnerability in the remote manageability feature via certain Intel’s products, including Intel® Active Management Technology firmware.
Firmware update for Toshiba products is in preparation. Until the firmware update is available, customers who have an affected product are recommended to keep such feature disabled (please see 3. Intel’s security information on vulnerability Intel published security information about an escalation of privilege vulnerability in Intel® Active Management Technology, Intel® Standard Manageability, and Intel® Small Business Technology firmware (.) that can allow an unprivileged attacker to gain control of the manageability features provided by these products. Please check the detail in Intel’s website: (English) (.) only “Intel® Active Management Technology” is incorporated in Toshiba products.
Affected Products All Toshiba products introduced in the market since 2010 which incorporate Intel® vPro™ CPU. (mostly the products for business but some consumer models are included) Please check the affected product list in below website to determine if you have an affected product.
Recommendations Firmware update for Toshiba products will be available after the end of May, 2017. Toshiba will publish the information on this website.
As a mitigation option for the possibility of unprivileged network attacker, Toshiba recommend customers to disable “Intel® Active Management Technology” in accordance with the step in below website. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. ”Intel” is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the U.S.
And other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Recall of Battery Packs Used in Certain Toshiba Laptops 10-Nov-2016 On November 10, 2016 Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd (`Toshiba`) announced an expansion of its previous voluntary recall of Panasonic battery packs launched in January 2016 (`January 2016 Recall`).
This expanded recall affects additional Panasonic battery packs manufactured and used with certain Toshiba laptops sold between July 2013 and November 2016. Because there is overlap within the manufacturing dates for the affected battery packs of the January 2016 Recall and the expanded recall, it is critical that all users of affected laptops purchased between July 2013 and the present date promptly check their battery pack to ensure that it is not affected by the expanded recall. Users who previously checked and determined that their battery pack was not affected by the January 2016 Recall must now their battery packs. Toshiba sold the affected battery packs with new laptops and as accessories or replacement battery packs in the course of repair. Because there is a possibility that the affected battery packs can overheat, they could pose a burn or fire hazard. Toshiba is offering a free replacement for affected battery packs.
If your battery pack is subject to Toshiba`s recall/replacement program, Toshiba recommends you turn off the laptop and remove the battery pack immediately. You can continue using your laptop safely by powering the laptop with an AC adapter power until you receive a replacement battery pack. Toshiba encourages all customers affected by this recall to contact Toshiba for a free replacement for affected battery packs. Toshiba Recalls Battery Packs on Certain Notebook PCs 28-Jan-2016 On January 28, 2016, Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd ('Toshiba') announced a voluntary recall to replace the battery packs manufactured for and used with certain Toshiba notebook computers sold between June 2011 and April 2014.
Toshiba sold the batteries with new notebook computers and as accessories or replacement batteries in the course of repair. Because there is a possibility that the affected battery packs can overheat, they could pose a burn or fire hazard. Toshiba is offering a free replacement for affected battery packs.
If your battery pack is subject to Toshiba`s recall/replacement program, Toshiba recommends you turn off the computer and remove the battery pack immediately. You can continue using your notebook computer safely by powering the computer with an AC adapter power until you receive a replacement battery pack. To learn whether your computer shipped with a battery pack subject to this recall, please visit the following Toshiba website and follow the instructions. Please check your battery pack if you have certain replacement batteries in the course of repair process, on and after June 2011.
Security updates for 'Toshiba Service Station' 18-Dec-2015 Issue Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd (Toshiba) has released an important update to fix security vulnerabilities in Toshiba Service Station. Toshiba recommends that all affected users immediately update their PCs software as described below to address these security vulnerabilities. Summary Security vulnerabilities potentially could allow unauthorized access to the affected PCs system registry.
Affected software versions: TOSHIBA Service Station for Windows 7/Windows Vista/Windows XP: V2.2.14 and earlier versions or the version is 3.0.0.0 TOSHIBA Service Station for Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Windows 10.: Between V2.2.14 and 2.6.15 or between V3.1.0.0 and V3.1.1.Between V2.2.15.0 and later and earlier than V2.3.0 or between V3.0.1.0 and V.3.1.0.0 on Windows 10 upgraded from Windows 7 are not included. Determining which version of Toshiba Service Station is installed on your PC may vary according to the installed operating system. Please see below for additional information. Updating to the latest version of Toshiba Service Station will fix the security vulnerabilities. For detailed instructions on how to determine if Toshiba Service Station is installed on your PC see 'Determining whether Toshiba Service Station is installed on your PC' under the section titled 'Instructions'.
For detailed instructions on how to install and update to the latest version of Toshiba Service Station see 'Installation Instructions' under the section titled 'Instructions'. Additional Information This security vulnerability applies only to TOSHIBA Service Station V2.2.14 and earlier versions or the version is 3.0.0.0 (Windows7/Windows Vista/Windows XP), or between V2.2.14 and 2.6.15 or between V3.1.0.0 and V3.1.1 (Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Windows 10). If Toshiba Service Station is not installed on your PC, you are not affected and no further action is required. Instructions Recommended Installation Method Automated update 1. Save all work in progress and close open applications. Start Toshiba Service Station by: a.
Windows 10: Pressing the Windows Key to open the start menu and then searching for Toshiba Service Station in All Apps. Windows 8 & 8.1: Pressing the Windows Key and typing Service Station. Windows 7 and Vista: Pressing the start button and searching for the program file Toshiba Service Station. Once Toshiba Service Station is open, click the button labeled 'Check for Updates'.
Or (depends on version of Toshiba Service Station) 4. Click Install.
Click the Start button when the TOSHIBA Service Station window is displayed. Click yes if a User Account Control Window is displayed. Follow the displayed instructions to complete the installation. Alternate Installation Method Manual update Determining which version of Toshiba Service Station is installed on your PC may vary according to the installed operating system.
Please see following instruction according to your operation system. Determining whether Toshiba Service Station is installed on your PC Windows 10 1. Press the Windows Key + X then select 'Programs and Features' from the pop up dialogue. If you do not see Toshiba Service Station in the list of programs, you do NOT need to proceed further.
If you see Toshiba Service Station in the list of programs and the installed version is between V2.2.14 and 2.6.15, or the version is between 3.0.0.0 and 3.1.1, for download and follow the instruction that will be displayed on your screen. You can view the version number by left mouse clicking on TOSHIBA Service Station one time. Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 1. Open Start by swiping in from the lower-right edge of the screen then tap Start. Tap Settings.
Access Uninstall or change a program in the Windows Control Panel. If you do not see Toshiba Service Station in the list of programs, you do NOT need to proceed further.
If you see Toshiba Service Station in the list of programs and the installed version is between V2.2.14 and 2.6.15, or the version is between 3.1.0.0 and 3.1.1, for download and follow the instruction that will be displayed on your screen. You can view the version number by left mouse clicking on TOSHIBA Service Station one time. Access Uninstall or change a program in the Windows Control Panel. If you do not see Toshiba Service Station in the list of programs, you do NOT need to proceed further. If you see Toshiba Service Station in the list of programs and the installed version is V2.2.14 or lower, or the version is 3.0.0.0, for download and follow the instruction that will be displayed on your screen. You can view the version number by left mouse clicking on Toshiba Service Station one time.
Windows Vista/XP 1. Access Uninstall or change a program in the Windows Control Panel. (Windows Vista) Or (Windows XP) 2. You can see the version # in the details window. (If you use Windows Vista, access the details window through the Organize, Layout and Details Pane.) 3. If you do not see Toshiba Service Station in the list of programs, you do NOT need to proceed further.
If you see Toshiba Service Station in the list of programs and the installed version is V2.2.14 or lower, or the version is 3.0.0.0, for download and follow the instruction that will be displayed on your screen. You can view the version number by left mouse clicking on Toshiba Service Station one time. Trend Micro / HDD Protection Feature 17-Feb-2015 Issue Dear customer: It has come to our attention that the installation of certain versions of Trend Micro’s security software may inadvertently disable startup of Toshiba’s HDD protection feature, available on certain Toshiba PCs.
Trend Micro has released a software update to fix this issue and re-enable Toshiba’s HDD Protection feature. If you currently are using Trend Micro’s security software and have enabled its “auto update” feature, the relevant software patch will be applied automatically to your system. Thank you for your continuing support of Toshiba and its products. Additional Details: Potentially Affected Toshiba PCs: Toshiba PCs with the “Toshiba HDD protection” feature which have also installed Trend Micro Internet Security v8.0, Trend Micro Premium Security v8.0 or Trend Micro Maximum Security v.
To determine whether your PC has “HDD protection”, please follow the instructions below: Windows 8.1 1. Open Start by swiping in from the lower-right edge of the screen then tap Start. Tap Settings. Access 'Uninstall or change a program' in the Windows Control Panel. If you do not see TOSHIBA HDD Protection in the list of programs, you do NOT need to proceed further. TOSHIBA HDD Protection: Windows 8 1.
Open Start by swiping in from the upper or lower-right edge of the screen then tap Start. Tap Settings. Access 'Uninstall or change a program' in the Windows Control Panel. If you do not see TOSHIBA HDD Protection in the list of programs, you do NOT need to proceed further. TOSHIBA HDD Protection: Windows 7 1. Access 'Uninstall or change a program' in the Windows Control Panel. If you do not see TOSHIBA HDD Protection in the list of programs, you do NOT need to proceed further.
TOSHIBA HDD Protection: Resolution As noted above, if you are using Trend Micro’s security software and have enabled its “auto update” feature, your software will be updated automatically. If you cannot enable the Trend Micro “auto update” feature, or you have already uninstalled the Trend Micro V8.0 security software please apply the update program below as soon as possible. Update program: The information and notice provided herein are all subject to change without notice. Procedure: 1. Download and save the file to a convenient location such as the Windows Desktop. Save all work in progress and close open applications.
From the Windows Desktop, double-click the downloaded file to start the installation. Press Yes if a User Account Control message is displayed. Press the Start button at the Toshiba Archive Extractor window. Press OK when The update was applied successfully is displayed. If the update has already been installed, The update was already applied to this machine will be displayed.
If TOSHIBA HDD Protection is not installed on the PC, The update was not applied, since this machine is not targeted will be displayed. Export Control and EULA Use of any software made available for download from this system constitutes your acceptance of the Export Control Terms and the terms in the Toshiba end-user license agreement both of which you can before downloading any such software.
Toshiba Recalls AC Power Cords on Certain Notebook PCs 25-Nov-2014 On November 25, 2014, Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd ('Toshiba') announced the recall and replacement of AC power cords 1) sold with certain Toshiba notebook computers manufactured and/or 2) replaced in the course of repair process, from September 2010 through June 2012. Toshiba is taking this action in the countries where the affected products were sold. Because there is a possibility that some affected 3-pins AC power cords may overheat and burn, Toshiba is offering a free replacement for affected AC power cords. AC power cords subject to this recall are marked with 'LS-15' on the portion of the cord that plugs into the power brick. Please see below photo illustrating the location of the marking. AC power cords that do not bear the 'LS-15' marking are not subject to this recall.
To learn whether your PC shipped with an AC power cord or your replaced AC power cord subject to this recall, please visit the following Toshiba website, and follow the instructions there to register to receive a free replacement AC power cord through a local Toshiba authorized service provider (for the list of authorized service providers, please visit ).
Hello, My Toshiba Satellite A205 with Windows Vista Basic has stopped working. I try to start it up, but all it gives me is the beginning TOSHIBA/Phoenix logo loading screen and for the windows loading screen it only gives me the little loading bar at the bottom. The windows logo does not show at all. After those two load up, it goes to a black screen and just completely stops loading. The hard drive stops working as in the light doesnt blip anymore and it just stays at a back-lit black screen. I can sort of hear the fan going, but it stops after a while.
I left it on over night thinking maybe it was loading something, but still after that it was just at the black screen. Hopefully nothing is wrong with the hard drive. I kinda read around and people said it's probably related to the video card? Also, the first time this happened it gave me the option to go into safemode, but instead I just held the power button down to restart it. It no longer gives me the option to start up normally or in safemode.
It doesn't show the screen at all. Thanks for reading and I hope there is a solutuion to this problem. My one year warranty from Toshiba ran out, a couple days ago actually :(, but I have a two year warranty from the store I bought the laptop from. But no reciept. It seems that this problem is with the power settings. You do not need to re-install windows or anything crazy like that.
Here are the fix steps:. 1. Turn off your computer. 2. Disconnect every wire from it (including power). 3.
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Disconnect the battery from the bottom of the computer. There will be two tabs labeled 1 and 2. Re-plug in the power wire.
(the battery should not be in the computer). 5. Turn on the power.
The screen will work. Choose start windows normally. (if you get that screen).
6. Go to Control Panel - (Mobile PC) - Power Options - Under Balanced choose change plan settings. 7. Choose Change advanced power settings. 8. Find Processor power management and change the minimum processor state from 5% to 100% for each On battery and Plugged in. Click Apply then OK.
10. Shut down you computer. Disconnect the power cord. Re-install the battery on the bottom of the laptop, plug in the power cord, and restart the computer.
You should be good to go. Hope you get this message, but I went to a couple other sites and posted this as my solution: 'Okay, good news.
My laptop is working again and I am on it right now. All I had to do is delete everything off of my hard drive first. As in a seperate operation, then restart then do the recovery wizard. For some reason I think one of the partitions was corrupt or the recovery wizard wasn't working properly because of the stuff still on my hard drive. I'm not sure why they don't give you the option to format before the recovery/reinstallation option. But this problem could possibly happen again, because I do not know what caused it. Thanks for all your help!'
All I did was instead of going to the recovery wizard option first, I formatted my hard drive completely to erase every and all partitions, THEN went to the recovery wizard. Hope that helps! You gotta remember though formatting your hard drive will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive INCLUDING all files and pictures and everything you have stored on it, so I suggest getting a linux and backing it all up first!!
This solution is only for people who tried the battery power thing above and it didn't work for them. I already tried to format my laptop. In fact, my recovery cd for my previous Vista home does not work anymore after using it once. So I decided to change it to vista black edition. Now, the problem still do exist: 1. It freezes when I plug in the power chord during normal battery operation.
(fan is still working and cd drive still react, open or close) 2. Difficult to boot during Battery operation after weeks of use (note that laptop does not boot at all using AC alone or without battery, the 'on' light and 'hard drive' light just blink. Seems like its trying to boot but power is not enough, but I can see the fan is still working and CD drive still reacts, open and close).
But after several try, it boots again; then freeze again after some time (I have to force a 'hard shut down' i.e. Removing the battery). Its like 'heating' the computer first. The most number of tries I make, the longer the time before it will freeze again.
I had defragmented the disk just last night and also do a disk clean up. Thanks guyz for the help.
Hi I just got a new toshiba and used it as usual this morning. However when I tried using it again later, it would just not start up. On repeated pressing of the power button, I got some colored lines and even the toshiba logo came on 2 times however after than it screen started fragmenting into colored lines again. And I needed to press the power button to shut down. Its only about a month old however I got it in canada and right now im elsewhere so cannot take it to the place where I bought it. Dont think the warrenty is valid if I take it out of the country.
Any suggestions as to what I can try? I got plenty of snaps and other imp data and would be in a fix if I could not recover it. Any help is welcome. Thanks Melody.
Can anyone help? I tried taking the battery out & tried to follow your steps given however all I get is a black screen.Sometimes the windows boot manager screen will come up and if I choose Microsoft Windows Vista all I get is a black blank screen if I tab down to the tools section and choose Ramdisk Device Options I get a screen that reads windows is loading files the directs me to a screen that reads 'windows has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer.
This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such as an external USB drive while the device is in use, or by faulty hardware such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive that is failing. Make sure any removable storage is properly connected and then restart you computer.' My husband was the last to use the computer so not sure what he did although he says he checked a 'spam' email and then the problems started. Any suggestions? I am using a crappy EMachine and want my Toshiba back! What do you mean by disconnect all wires? I already tried that before, right now my problem is it does not work with just power alone, only on batteries.
THe hard part is that it took me around 30 minutes or more to on and hard shut down before it starts up and just hang sometimes before the start up. Now, before the window logo appears, theres a blink of a bluescreen which I cannot read because it is so fast, then it restarts automatically, then just repeating the process until my battery drains. Note that my battery recharge just fine when it is off. Any help would be appreciated. Brian, mine does not start up at all. 3 months ago, my laptop (toshiba A205) doesnt start up or doesnt work when power is plugged in, but I can see that the fan is working as well as the CDrom.
It works just fine on battery back then and the battery charges well. Now, I need to shut it down (hard shut down, i.e. Removing the battery) several times before it boots up. The 'on' lights work, I can see that the 'disk' light also works, and also the fan and CD rom.
But the boot up fails just right after I chose start windows normally or any option I choose, even the safe mode. There's a blink of a blue screen before it restart again. Is this already a mother board problem? I can hardly believe that this is a mother board problem already since I can still go to the BIOS setup when I press F2, or boot menu when I press F12.
I can even boot up in CDrom, which then I can have an option to install anything. The problem is by the time I can boot it up, I dont have enough battery to reinstall OS. It seems like replacing my mother board is not an option since the service qoute me almost the same as the cost of the laptop just for the mother board here in our country. My warranty already expired just before it went crazy. Any idea guyz?
Hi Brian You pointed me in the right direction, but your instructions 1 - 5 didn't work for me. I still got the black screen with blinking cursor.
I had one extra symptom. The F2 for setup and F12 for boot menu text didn't appeared in the boot screen anymore.
I did managed to get the PC boot properly again, but I had to do some extra steps first: 1) Beside the battery, I also had to remove the Hard disk. 2) After I removed the hard disk and the battery, I turned on the power and the PXE boot prompt appeared instead of the black screen with the blinking cursor. After about 5 sec a message appeared telling me the media was faulted.
3) I powered off the PC and but back the hard disk 4) I powered up the PC again and the PXE boot prompt appeared again and after 5 sec the error message, but after that it booted my Windows 7 again! Then I followed your instructions from 6 - 12 and everything is working fine now.
Hope this helps some more people that have he same symptoms as me. The same thing happened to me and I'll tell you what I did to fix it. When I was greeted with the black screen, I thought maybe CTRL+ALT+DEL would work and sure enough, it did! In the Task Manager under the Processes tab, I noticed that none of the processes were currently running except Task Manager, obviously. So what I did was cancel the explorer.exe process and rerun it from the New Task.
Option at the bottom right of the screen of the Applications tab. And it will open up a Create New Task pop-up screen where you will type explorer.exe and press ENTER. Give it some time. I had to wait about 30 sec to 1 min for the computer to boot up normally and everything was fine until the computer is restarted, so at this point it's a workaround but it still needs to be fixed. (FYI: I used CHKDSK to fix and repair any issues with the HDD prior to what I've mentioned above but it did NOT prevent this problem!) Once the OS is up and everything seems to be working, except Networking and WiFi which is down, you will need to use System Restore to restore to an earlier point in time before you were having these issues.
So hopefully you have a fairly recent restore point you can go to that won't delete too many things on your HDD. And as you have witnessed at this point, the contents of your HDD remain in tact so it's not an issue of the HDD corrupting. Right-click on the HDD or Computer and select Advanced system settings on the left-hand portion of the screen and it will open up a System Properties window. Click on the System Protection tab and then click on the System Restore button to restore to an earlier date and time hopefully before this problem plagued you. In this manner I was able to avert the finality of either repairing the computer in another painstaking way or returning it to the manufacturer for service.
As far as trying to surmise what occurred to make this happen, I can only deduce that I was using the Monitor Out feature to send the video feed to an LCD monitor before this happened as well as encountering a virus that I thought my antivirus program caught. I don't know if any of these events had anything to do with this irritating issue but I believe it's worth mentioning just in case others have encountered the same. For all of you guys here that replied to this, I figured out the problem is Window's fault, not Toshiba's. Something gets corrupt in the boot-up files, but all your files on your hard drive are still safe. All you guys will need to do is re-install Windows onto your system.
But you need to back up your files. Since you guys can't access your hard drive to back it up with Windows, use a program called Puppy Linux. It runs off of just a disk and leaves nothing on your hard drive!
Once you get into Puppy, you can access all of your files there and back them up onto a thumb drive or other USB storage device. You can even burn a disk with puppy and access the internet. It also has other cool little applications. I know it will take a while with small sized thumb drives, but I think its still worth it if it means saving your files. Is the link to Puppy Linux.
Give it a try, it really works. Some people even use Puppy just because its faster and easier than Windows. Don't get the latest 4.2.1 Puppy though, because it doesn't have wifi support for the internet. Instead, get just 4.2 I hope this helps all you guys here with this problem.
Hey I tried reinstalling windows just like u said, I had to do it for the third time in a row.now it dont work at all.it starts up but takes five minutes just to load the start up, it wont update from the interent and my security wont turn on and it wont install anything.not even an eraser program to erase the computer. Can someone please tell me how to format my computer totally even erase windows.so its completely blank, I was never given a recovery disk it wont let me even make the recovery disks to begin with.it wont make restore points, the compiter just shuts down when I try to do those things.it takes forever to load anything.this has been going on for almost a year, i've already spent 200 smackers on this piece of sh.
I really need some advise here what to do with it.its an 1800 dollar laptop and hasnt begun to pay itself off yet.i keep having problems with it it worked amazingly the first year I had it then everything just went downhill.oh and btw my fan stopped working too.PLEASE HELP. Your fan is not working because it has overheated, which causes the other problems.
Get the fan replaced, as for the screeen. Unplug everything from it, take out the battery; checking it is cool and there is no foreign material. Check the laptop part the battery plugs into as well. If all is well, replace the battery into the laptop and turn on, it should work if not, you must get it sent to be fixed. Moral of the story is, don't waste 1800 dollars on a laptop when you can get them for 1/4 of that price. I have the same problem: black or red screen.
For me the diffrence is, the fact that everything works out just fine as long as my laptop's screen its not connected.If its not connected then it work out just fine, all normal. So I am starting to be pretty sure it is my inverter or the main cable that connects my laptop to my screen. So I am pretty sure I will go buy new ones and see what happens.Will let you guys know. First of all: always try conecting your computer to another screen. If it works then you know it is not your video card or anything else inside it and the problem it is probably related to the monitor. From what I know 40% of the time it is the RAM or the battery problem wich are easly fixed with the pressing power button trick wich you can find in here in other posts.
The other 40% are usually the Invertor! The backlights, or the main cable of the monitor.Other problems left in the 20% cathegory would be: take out your graphic memory, the one that it is near the computer processor and looks alot like it and check its pins.If they touch eachoter or are crooked use something with hot air (like a hair dryer) for about 60 seconds directly on it, after you take it out and they will go back to there normal position( this is just a quick fix!).
In my case I do belive it is my monitor inverter! Or the main cable of my monitor. PS: A laptop invertor it is pretty cheap and you can buy it online.
Alot more cheapper then it wold be to buy a new Lcd screen. Will continue this after I will change my invertor and my cable and see what happens. Thank you very much for your time, hope this will help. May we all get our 'babies' back!;). I didn't really read all the posts as I was in hurry to tell you all what I found out about this problem. I had the same problem on Toshiba Satellite laptop running with Windows XP.
After I realized the battery is nearly dead, I continued using the computer just like before, connected constantly to the main power supply. But after a while it started showing a black screen right after startup and it sometimes took hours to start working. After consulting with people that have experienced similar symptoms with their computers, I was pretty much convinced that the hard drive was gone and decided to change the HDD as soon as possible. Just like on startup, the computer was sometimes stalling on shutdown as well. In an occasion when holding the power button wasn't enough to shut down the computer, I was going to remove the battery and the power supply in order to shut it down.
Just as I removed the battery from the back of the laptop, it started functioning normally. I retried removing the battery every time the machine stalled, and I got the same result every single time. The moment I remove the battery, the computer starts working again. Hi all - same problems with my A300 last night - it was running hot, and the fan noise was annoying me, so I turned down the power settings to 'Power Saver'. Then things started going wrong with USB ports at first, nothing recognised, etc. I shrugged it off and then turned off the computer for the night.
This morning - black screen of death on boot up, no hard drive activity, etc. Occiasionally made it to the bios screen but that didn't seem to help. Removed the RAM and put it back, all to no avail. What did work however was a bit weird. I tried rebooting with a USB hard drive connected, and after a few attempts it worked! Still with major problems - only half the RAM recognised, no usb ports working, no fingerprint logon, blah.
So I kept it running for a while, changed the power setting back to balanced, ran a virus check (negative), backed up my files, ran a diagnostic (passed with flying colours depsite the fact that half the systems didn't work:)) and checked the disk, and now. Running like a dream again. For most of you, this problem is probabably something to do with power settings. If you can't get past the black sceen try giving it a bit of a jolt by plugging something into the USB ports. You never know, it might just work. Just have to hope that this doesn't come back. Also, yu have to erase your hard drive and redo the disc that came with computer.
If worse comes to worse, you can do that after doing a back full back up. Yhe disc will erase everything and prompts you and then add your back up using restore back-up on windows later, but I believe it will work if you hold down the off switch & remove the battery. It is a pain holding down the key & siunds outlandish, but it works like a charn. I had other problems beyond that later & just redoing the factory disc solved that, but my computer was blinking furiously & a defect built in with Vista. Plus you get al the free games again trial.