Just recently I have been having problems with the video card on my Toshiba Satellite A65-S126
Just recently I have been having problems with the video card. (I think?) on my Toshiba Satellite A65-S126. It runs XP home.
The computer starts to boot fine but about halfway through after the windows logo shows up, the screen goes to a screen that says…” We apologize for the inconvenience but windows did not start normally. It will prompt me to start normally or safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, safe mode with networking, etc.
Then IF it goes through into normal start up mode it will say…Computer restarted after an unexpected shutdown. Microsoft Windows detected a possible device failure. The driver for the display device was unable to complete a drawing operation. Please check with the device manufacturer for a driver update. The display driver for the ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7000 IGP seems to be responsible for the system instability.” The error signature is (szAppName Drivers.Display) (szappVer 1002443700FF101179) (szModName ati2dvag.dll) (szModVer6.14.10.6430) (Offset 403106EA).
When I boot the computer in safe mode, windows works normally, but tells me it had a problem with the ATI card and after a time will shut down by itself and continue with all of the issues mentioned before.
I recently deleted everything from it (it took 8 hours) and restored with original software given only to have the same exact error messages pop up again.
Running a restore CDs and reloading everything back to original factory defaults was a very good troubleshooting step. It eliminated any software related problems. If this error is not caused by a software fault, then it’s a hardware issue. Unfortunately it didn’t fix your problem and to be honest, you do not have a lot of choices. Toshiba Satellite A65 has onboard video and onboard memory; everything is integrated into the system board. So, if the onboard video or onboard memory is bad, the entire system board must be replaced. If you have any extra memory module installed, try to remove it and run the laptop just with onboard memory. You can try to re-flash/upgrade the laptop BIOS, sometimes it helps. If after re-flashing the BIOS you still have the same problem, then I would say that the system board is bad.
January 17th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Hi. I have a Toshiba A105-s4284 and I’m having problems with the video display. I get a lot of choppy slow internet streaming videos and even flash games run slow. My old Toshiba m35x laptop has better video performance. I’ve updated/reinstalled all known drivers pertaining to video and still have the same problem. Everything used to work fine before about a year ago when I caught a virus and it pretty much wiped out most my drivers and I had to reinstall all of them. From that point on it’s never been the same. I even reinstalled the OS system but to no avail.
I used to be able to play h.264 compressed HD videos, but now the video freezes while the audio is fine. Can someone help??
October 12th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Just want to confirm that this is definitely a driver bug that appeared in a 2004 release. There is a post or two above that are mixing problems, but other than that, ALL are a result of a buffer overrun problem with this driver. I spoke with ATI/AMD a few days ago as my wife’s A65 had taken to crashing every time she ran it in Windows (I installed SUSE and pushed her to use it unless absolutely necessary – no room for Wine with this old laptop). This past week, BSOD and it wiped all trace of the Windows root drive NTFS formatting. She had installed a third party Microsoft Access app and didn’t point it to storing to the data partition I had created. All data lost, wife ready to fly to Redmond and kick some arse. All night rekeying data on one of our home network clients running Ubuntu and Wine and she’s back in black. I reloaded Windoze and am burying the ATI update permanently.
I now work for HP (buyout of my employer) so she is getting a brand new custom HP laptop with no OS installed. On goes Ubuntu with a small partition with Damned Small Linux as a fall back should she be traveling and pull a “Stupid User Trick”.
DO NOT INSTALL THE ATI DRIVER OR ANY VARIATION OF FOR XP!!!!!
September 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
hi i have a toshiba satellite A65 S-126
i have trouble with the video drivers , evry time i try to install thme , wen i have to restart it it does nothing after the windows XP screen , then i get a blue screen for lik 1 sec , and it restarts ,
then i need to run safe mode and remove the installed drivers so that wen i restart it works , the problem is i can install video drivers and i cant reproduce movies or play games well .
any help is apriciated
June 16th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
BVH,
1. You can reinstall the operating system form a generic XP CD if you have one. After that download all missing drivers from the Toshbia website.
2. Try calling Toshiba 1-800-457-7777. Maybe they can sell you one. Some of my customer were able to buy recovery discs directly from Toshiba and it wasn’t expensive.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I have an issue with my A65 s126 that requires the recovery cd, which I also never got, which I credit to the techs at BestBuy who didn’t return it after service. Is there an alternative to the cd or anyone/place that I can get one?
March 30th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Just accept that we have been triked
they just got our money and they don’t care about us
they simply swindled to us
(nos estafaron)
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all the problems are related in the a65 models take care clean it very well, check the power connector on the back side of the laptop these need to be soldered again or replaced, and buy a good 1gb memory if the integrated memory its totally dead then the only solution its take out the on_board memory this between the expansion slot of the external memory and the battery
be careful there are modules in the bottom side and the top side of the mother board and finally but more important clean very well the area to take out any remaining soldered parts that can make a short circuit
these can fry the main board so its very dangerous
other way with less results its re-flow the main-board over the memory area be very careful with temperature or you gonna fry the memory if its still alive
November 11th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
I had a problem with my Toshiba a65-s1062, the graphics
would crash (ATI) going to very large text and monochrome. This went on even after reloading the fix-it disc. I finally fixed it, when I blew out the dust bunnies( I just blew into the fan inlet, a large cloud of dust came out.) I think it was overheating, it would run ok for about 30 min, and then the video would crash.
It was cheap and easy fix, it’s worth a try.
Tom
September 30th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Yup, you’re right…duh. I need to pull that thing out and send it off to CC’s protection (ha) plan people.
Thanks.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Gail,
Doubt it. If the mouse is incompatible it’s simply will not work.
By the way, I believe you have a Satellite A65 laptop and most likely it runs XP. What kind of mouse is incompatible with XP?