Satellite Pro A300-28V - black screen boot failure

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• Satellite Pro A300-28V - my bluescreens disappeared when the BIOS has been upgraded

  I'm curious to know about it. The machine is a Satellite Pro A300-28V with Vista32/Win7.
  Had problems with bluescreen dumps referring to 'iaStor.sys '. I was about to send the laptop in for repair when I made this last effort to resolve the problem. Upgrade 1.9 to 2 BIOS, 1 - Win.

  All of a sudden my system image succeeded! Even at an Iomega home network HDD. Without complex!
  No blue screen exports even at startup 'cold' (after a free night)!

  For now, I leave the computer in sleep mode while I am at work. Let's see if he managed a day without landfills.

  What is the technical difference between 1.9 and 2.1 BIOS? No idea if it's something with iaStor.sys to do?

  /ssstsg

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  Hi mate

  This is really good news as your BSOD displeasured after the BIOS update.
  The BIOS give instructions to the test power - on self test (POST) and provide basic information on how to manage components of the laptop, as HDD, ODD memory, that are required to load the operating system.

  Who knows, what was changed in the update but the main thing is that all the work and the update solve your BSOD

  > No idea if she has something with iaStor.sys to do?
  iaStor.sys is part of the SATA driver who is required to recognize the HARD drive using AHCI mode.

• Satellite Pro A300-28V - cannot create own recovery disks

  Have a portable Satellite Pro A300-28V with Vista Business 32. After a HARD disk recovery partition recovery, I decided to use the PC function full system backup to make a picture for later retrieval with all my current settings. Too inconvenient for factory reset default (Thunderbird 3.0 Mail, Open Office and some other small applications already running no problem for years on another computer in the office).

  The system needs 5 to 9 DVD and he wrote the first DVD. Takes about 30 minutes. Then, during the audit of this disc, it crashes. Audit bar stops at about 30% complete.
  Anyone with this experience? No, the company "Complete PC Image" works well on an OEM of Vista installation?
  Or maybe it's the DVD player in need of an update? I do not use a 3rd party burning software.

  / Sweden

  Hello

  What program you use to create your own recovery discs? For example, I mean Acronis, Norton Ghost, etc..

  In your case I would try with another program like Nero or CD Burner XP burning.
  In addition, you can try to remove upper and lower filters in the Windows registry, maybe that will work.

  Finally, and especially on the Toshiba site, you can check if there is an update to the firmware of your CD/DVD drive.

• Satellite Pro L300 - cursor black screen flashing

  Hi all

  I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite Pro L300 Vista.

  The customer earned him in because when it starts it goes to home Toshiba screen then goes to a black screen with cursor flashing at the top left. I connected external monitor with the same result. Swapped RAM as well.

  Have run Memtest (spent), Seagate HDD long test (past), Ultimate boot CD and Winternals without success.
  * F8 does not work * and no more than the resumption of the plant.

  Can enter the BIOS F2 and F12 no problems and the HARD drive is listed.

  I reinstalled Vista on CD and on reboot it goes back to blinking cursor. I tried booting from the Vista CD repair and system restore. FixBoot commands and FixMbr prompt as well as with the same result.
  I feel that it may be a corrupt CMOS sensor? It's like the OS installs correctly, but the computer loses his memory on reboot where the operating system?

  Is the battery CMOS easily accessible and removable on this model?

  Has anyone experienced these symptoms? Is - fixable at lower cost?

  Hello

  If you have clients, I guess you're a technician and hope you have a few pieces of equipment in your store.
  Have you tried to set the BIOS to default settings and check again?
  If possible try to exchange the HARD drive and test the functionality again.
  You can use laptop with Linux live CD (HARD drive not required)?

  To be honest that I think n problem t is ORGANIC and, in my opinion, the exchange of the CMOS battery is not necessary.

  Please test it with the new HARD drive and post comments.

• Satellite Pro A120 - LCD black screen - Fine on external monitor - fine

  Hi, I have a headache with a Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 mojor. The screen began to move to the blackout at random times and happens more and more. It is not serious if W
  Jayindows has loaded or if I enter the bios, boot from the CD or leave it sitting waiting for me to select a boot device. More often than otherwise, it becomes black, but you can still see what needs to be on the screen, it is simply not at all turned to see clearly. The laptop itself still works very well because it works on an external monitor and makes the system beeps, cd turns etc.
  Have you tried the following:
  Setting of various parameters in the graphics properties and in the bios but makes no difference.
  It also becomes active again if I press FN + F5 to swap monitors but turns off after a few seconds.
  It is not overheating as it's been all night and still sometimes happens when starting Cold Stone.
  I tried to start with / without battery - no difference.
  I tried to start without the disk HARD - no difference.
  I tried to remove the battery by pressing power for 60 seconds, then add the battery and new starter - no difference in power.
  I could have sworn it is the inverter, but it does the same thing with an inverter I know works! do not think that it may be graphic because it works on an external monitor and turn off.
  I'm out of ideas and looking for a genius to fix it for me please!
  See you soon

  Hey Buddy,

  > It turns on but not at all to see clear
  This would mean that the FL inverter is faulty the FL inverter of the internal LCD display controls the backlight of the screen and if the isn t working FL inverter you can see a picture, but very very dark.

  It would be a logical explanation for your problem, because there must be something wrong with the laptop LCD if an external monitor is working properly. Also if it happens in the BIOS the problem is not software.

  In your case I contact an authorized service provider and ask the guys for help. They can check your laptop and this should be done. Here, we can only speculate and discuss the different possibilities because it s just a user forum. EPA has professional diagnostic tools and can order all Toshiba spare parts.

  Good luck! :)

• Satellite Pro L300 PSLB1E - black screen / no display

  Hello

  hope someone can point me in the right direction. I just bought a re-conditioned by Satellite Pro L300 Model PSLB1E of Dabs.com.
  He worked for about 20 minutes and then I got a blue screen error (I think that I just tried to open Windows Media Player when this happened).
  Sorry, but I didn't note down the error however seem to recall he mentioned win30.dll?

  Now, when I turn on the laptop I can hear things fan etc but there is no display on the screen.
  I don't know what to do and I have no warranty documentation.
  Suggestions this is appreciated please.

  Are you able to start, any bootable disks, Win XP, Win Vista, Linux live CD, etc.

  Please check this!

  But if you will not be able to boot from these disks, then you must contact the ASP (authorized service provider) in your country, because this problem looks a little more hardware related problem.

  Good luck

• Satellite Pro L770 - intermittent black screen

  I had some problems in the last few weeks with my L770 Pro Satellite.

  Occasionally, the screen is blank, it comes and goes without apparent cause, it can sometimes be empty for an hour, sometimes more, sometimes much shorter.
  There is a display when I connect to a TV via HDMI.

  The screen of the computer itself can go motionless on a desk, as well as come back when it has not been moved.
  As far as I know that some drivers have been updated.

  From there, I can only assume that there is a bad connection?

  Hello

  The display turns OFF when using Notepad or while staying away from the laptop?

  Please check the option called choose when turning off the display
  It is found on Panel-> power-> left column Options

  Here you can set the time when the display would be sounded.
  I would recommend settings this forever in order to test the functionality

• Satellite Pro A60 PSA65E black screen when you wake up from stand-by

  Hello

  I have a laptop computer (PSA65E) A60 and I am really slow recently so I decided to reinstall windows XP.

  I didn't have the CD that came with the laptop, so I don't know if it was an installation CD or recovery CD.

  But I installed WinXP home with SP3 slipstreamed in him with a folder for all the drivers. I installed without any problem and installed the drivers for the wifi, display etc.
  And yes it has been activated via windows until someone asks.

  In any case when I closed the lid and exploited later I couldn't have the laptop to wake up.

  Well it is but with a white screen, the fans start up and I get all the flashing lights on the front, but no display. I had the mouse pointer once but nothing else.

  I read a lot of forum posts here on all sorts of ways to fix, but I can't get an any of them to work. Tried to get new drivers, got all of the updates from windows update and the bios is the most recent.

  Any ideas on what is happening here, because it is really annoying me.

  Thank you Will

  Hello

  To be clear. The notebooks are actually not SP3 supported and if you want to have good work use OS support Windows XP SP2 home edition.

  I know what you're probably thinking now but all offered tools and utilities are obviously not designed and tested with SP3.
  It is a pity that you n t have Toshiba recovery CD. With the original recovery image, it should work correctly.
  Usually these problems are solved with the updates to the BIOS, but if you have a last I really t know what you can try to fix it.

  As you can see it is very often problematic to use latest updates on older models of laptop.

• Satellite Pro A300 - windows blue screen / said it's a hardware problem

  He started the summer after I installed Windows 7 and generally, it happened once a month, does not have too much attention to it.

  Now, today it happened 4 times!
  Any help is welcome:

  * This is what it says: *.

  Signature of the problem:
  Problem event name: BlueScreen
  OS version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
  Locale ID: 1033

  More information about the problem:
  BCCode: 7f
  BCP1: 0000000000000008
  BCP2: 0000000080050033
  BCP3: 00000000000006F8
  BCP4: FFFFF80002ADCDA2
  OS version: 6_1_7600
  Service Pack: 0_0
  Product: 256_1

  Files helping to describe the problem:
  C:\Windows\Minidump\110110-27596-01.dmp
  C:\Users\Vladimir\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-53913-0.SysData.XML

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  Hello

  In general the BSOD is a product of hardware or software problem.
  So it's not easy to say exactly what's wrong.

  Display only the questions;
  Have you tried a fresh install of the OS?
  You update all drivers (especially the graphics card driver)?
  Your BIOS is up to date?
  Have you noticed a higher internal temperature?
  The cooling modules are free of dust?

  Please check first!

• Satellite Pro A300 - blue snow on screen

  After about 20 months trouble free operation, my Satellite Pro A300 has developed an intermittent failure annoyingly screen appears where a scattering of blue pixels, most noticeably on a white background. Generally any form of action (including a proverbial "click") clears the screen until the next time it happens.

  Any idea what's going on? Any help appreciated.

  > Generally any form of action (including a proverbial "click") clears the screen until the next time it happens.
  Means that they are not dead pixels or something like that in this case, it could be a graphics related issue.
  Have you tested this external monitor? Pixels appear on the second screen?
  If so, then this might be a GPU question

  But you can also check if an update of the driver can be useful of course the old driver must be uninstalled and then the new driver update must be installed.

  However, it smells like a hardware problem, so I'm not sure if a driver update that would improve

• Satellite Pro A300: No volume indicator displays on the screen

  Hello

  I have a Satellite Pro A300 with a volume knob. When you change the volume to use, it works (even if this does not work as the starting system which is really annoying, especially when you turn it on every day in a library) However there are usually no witnesses screen to show at what level the volume is at. Once, I saw a display flag which seemed to be apart Toshiba Hot Key Utility but it disappeared again after a reboot.

  It is really impossible to do not be able to see at what level the volume is such that you change. Can someone help me out here? Brands goes for anyone who can help me unravel so volume level start!

  Hi CiRi,

  try to use the "Fn + esc" key to cut your system...
  He will remain silent even for restart the computer...

  If none of the keys have a special feature of "Fn" reinstall the 'value added package' and 'hotkeys' of the toshiba download page.

• Satellite Pro A300 crashes with white screen

  I have a Satellite Pro A300, AMD processor, Vista, ATI graphics card.

  The system worked fine for a year, but there are a few months, he started crashing, the screen went white, not blue, whatever it be running, like music, stopped. This can occur after several hours or minutes, or even if he is re-start. All my software is up-to-date, Microsoft and Toshiba. I rebuilt my system from scratch and the symptoms came back.

  At first I thought that this could be a heat problem, but I followed this but I don't think that's it. It crashed seconds after leaving standby mode when it has not had a chance to warm up.

  Anyone have any ideas?

  Simon

  Hey Buddy,

  Theoretically, it might be an overheating problem so the screen became due white built in overheating protection...

  You should try to clean your laptop using a jet of compressed air. This could blow the dust of fans cooling and, therefore, it of not necessary to disassemble the laptop.

  In your case, I recommend reading this article:

• White screen when exit Mode standby - Satellite Pro A300-15 t

  We have a new laptop Satellite Pro A300-15 t (PSAJ1E00F00FG) with Windows Vista 32. Display of the laptop will not return to the standby mode. He remains in black color. I can see the Green HDD indicator.

  I have to shut down & restart power with force using power switch.

  Is it any Hotkeys to get out of sleep mode? We are pressing on button / stop or keys.

  If someone had similar situations & got some solutions, please help...

  Thanks in advance...

  Hello

  As far as I know that these issues are resolved with BIOS update. Can you please tell us which model of laptop you have exactly and what BIOS version is preinstalled on your laptop?

  I think 2.70 is the latest version of the BIOS.

• Satellite Pro A300-257 while flashing the BIOS

  Hello

  I have a dilemma. I recently installed windows 7 on my laptop of girlfriends who is a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300-257, everything went well until I tried to update the Bios. I followed all instructions on the toshiba site had to put the model number in to get good bios double checked and triple checked before running the program, but when I ran the system crashed to halfway through the closed system update and now it wont even boot lights are on cd player is ROAR a few stays on black screen.

  I read many forums and it seems im not the only one with this problem.
  I just got the phone to toshiba and they say im not covered because I does not you can call and go through it with them on the phone, even if at no time did he tell me to do that I followed the instructions of there Web site.
  I also confirmed with them that I used the correct bios but they say that they are unable to prove that and I can put in the wrong information that I did not.

  In my view, there is a program that will allow me to boot from the cd so I don't have to go out and buy a reader external floppy to Flash the bios, I think that his winflash. Unfortunately, all I can find is the executable program on there website which im guessing will not start work.
  Anyone know where I can find the prog to update the bios and the bios file so I can create a cd bootable to Flash the bios.

  Any help will be appreciated with gratitude

  Thank you very much

  Hi mate

  I m afraid there is no alternative to reflash the BIOS to the traditional version of BIOS who can start the BIOS updated using an external USB drive and the floppy disk.

  The European driver Toshiba page contains only the BIOS Win-based that can be updated when the windows operating system. The traditional BIOS is not available for download. Only authorized service partners have access to this version of BIOS and that's why I don t see any alternative as to get in touch with the guys and to ask for help.

• Satellite Pro A300 PSAG9E. Should I keep or not?

  Hello

  I just bought a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 PSAG9E. It came pre-installed with Vista and also a DVD to upgrade to windows 7 Professional (that I installed).

  I tried to start the machine this morning, but for some reason it wouldn't start. All that's happened is that the initial toshiba screen appears, followed by a black screen frozen (showing underscore in the top left corner).

  The thing is that I have seem to have been able to solve this problem, but I do not understand how and why this happened!
  The issue seems to be related to the battery. At first, I tried to boot up the laptop (with only the battery connected) however it would not start. I don't think this has nothing to do with the amount of battery charge, because it had more than enough in it. I then tried to start it with just the power cable (and no battery). For some reason any that seemed to do the trick, and the laptop has been able to start. The laptop has now also boots when battery and the attached cable.

  Why is this happening?
  I am interested to know, is because this laptop already has given me a few problems. The laptop also bought very recently, so I can still return it for a refund (which I seriously think!).

  What should I do guys? Any help/advice you give to this topic would be highly appreciated.

  Thank you
  Jay

  > All that's happened is that the initial toshiba screen appears, followed by a black screen frozen (showing underscore in the top left corner).

  Underscore flashing in the left corner means that the BIOS battery was empty or something wrong with the HARD drive (possibly BIOS didn't find the right source of start-up)

  I recommend access to BIOS and set it to the default value. Save the changes and try to start the device again.

  You should also keep the laptop connected to the mains for about 24 hours and the laptop should be ON as well.
  This will help the CMOS battery.

  Check this box