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08-22-2009, 08:45 PM
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Toshiba A45-S120 - weird video, no boot
I have a Toshiba A45-S120 laptop that has previously worked fine. I hadn't turned it on for several weeks. When I tried last week, after the WinXP splash screen comes up, the progress bar completes one pass and then the video freezes and shows a ghosted image of the WinXP logo off to the right of the real one and the two images are displayed in alternating vertical stripes, almost as thought you were looking through vertical blinds. At that point, there's no further boot progress.
I thought I might try a full reformat but wanted to check and see if anyone had any good ideas first, specifically whether or not this is likely to be a hardware problem or just something that got swiss cheesed in WinXP. Thanks in advance for any pointers. |
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08-22-2009, 09:02 PM
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Have you tried to see if you can enter the bios before the splash screen to rule out a video problem..
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08-22-2009, 09:08 PM
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I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that. I was able to enter BIOS. I also neglected to mention that, after a failed boot like I mentioned, the text screen comes up with all the safe mode options, etc. If I select safe mode or last known good configuration, I get a screen full of text for a few seconds, as normal, then the screen ghosts/pixellates and freezes.
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08-23-2009, 11:54 AM
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Tanker Yanker
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I would try a reinstall sounds like you OS is corrupted.
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