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114679 2003-01-17 06:18:00 strange problem but friends laptops are that way. it is a toshiba

satellite 1900 / bios1.50 and the win xp home start up is locking up

during loading.

first i get the toshiba screen (i can access bios here) then the

black screen with the gradient at the bottom. it says Resuming

Windows... - above the line and For Troubleshooting and advanced

startup options for Windows, press F8.

F8 does nothing. the computer stops when the bar is full and is

locked before that.

i've gone into the bios and tried to get the cd drive and/or floppy

to boot initially but nothing seemed to change upon bootup - same two

screens. i have even tried disabling the harddrive in the bios boot

sequence to no avail.

the last thing he did was playing around in the display

properties>setting>advanced> somewhere.

it came with a toshiba recovery cd rom (x2). i assume they work but i

cannot get a boot from cd. i tried my xp disk before realizing that i

couldn't get a boot.
chadongorge (3020)
114680 2003-01-17 07:03:00 You probably need the Toshiba boot floppy to get things started. Toshiba manuals are very good in their descriptions of how to handle this sort of problem so read that, find the boot floppy and then start again.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
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