My Toshiba Satellite A105 turns on (power button glows) with battery or AC power, but monitor shows no image at all
I just bought a Toshiba A105 – S1712 notebook computer used (almost new) from a friend three days ago. This is my first notebook computer.
Today something very strange happened (I’m terribly sad about it). Let me describe the steps to repro what happened:
1 – Machine was working fine.
2 – Started machine to see a DVD movie, but used the power button instead of Internet/CD/DVD button
3 – While WindowsXP was starting up I pressed the power button and hold until machine turned off. (Forced power off)
4 – Machine powered off
5 – Pressed the Internet/CD/DVD buttonFrom this time on the machine seems just dead. It turns on (power button glows) with battery or AC power, but monitor shows no image at all.
If I either turn on using the Internet/CD/DVD button or the power button, the same happens, machine seems to turn on (power button lights), but it does not even get to BIOS screen.
Do you have any idea on what may be happening? HELP ME please!!
Is there any way (any key to press while powering on?) to reset all BIOS data for this computer?
When you turn it on, do you hear any activity? Motors start working, fan spinning, etc…? Try to connect an external monitor and start the laptop. Check if you can get any video on the external monitor. If the external monitor is dead too, try to remove the battery and start the laptop from the AC adapter. It also might be a bad memory module or a bad connection between the memory and the motherboard. Try to reseat the memory module, move it to the second slot. If you have two memory modules, try to remove them one by one and turn on the laptop. Also, try to remove the hard drive and see if you can boot it to Toshiba screen without the hard drive installed.
There is no special button to reseat the BIOS settings. To do it, you’ll have to access the BIOS using F2 button on the laptop start up, but as you have no video, you cannot access the BIOS and set it to defaults.
I think this laptop is still under Toshiba warranty, so if you cannot figure out what’s wrong, call them and let them fix it.
March 31st, 2010 at 6:51 pm
I have the same problem, i don’t know what to to do now with the screen, i’ll take the toshiba with an professional so he can help me.
by God bless u!, i hop we both get this problem solved
January 19th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Ok, I have been reading… and reading, and trying things mentioned. So, I finally decided to write in this thread.
I have a Toshiba Satellite A105-S101 and I am having a huge issue with the display. The Power Light comes on, the hard drive spins up, and the lights below the F10 and E11 keys that blink when you turn the system on are very dim. A while ago (3-4 weeks) the system was plugged in and was working (Not great but working) the power plug moved and even with the batery in, the system died and has not been back on since.
Any help you all could give would be greatly appreciated.
B
September 17th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
your screen is propobly burned out, have to get another lcd
June 5th, 2009 at 11:26 am
What is wrong with you people? This thread has been hijacked by morons! Look at the title!!!! “My Toshiba Satellite A105 turns on (power button glows) with battery or AC power, but monitor shows no image at all”. Now there are people posting on here with Compaq’s and HP’s with backlight issues, bios problems, bad inverters ect… Start a new thread unless you have a question that even remotely relates to this exact model and issue!!!!!! I’m trying to follow the solution to this but there are 85 posts that have NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS THREAD!!