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.

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