- Nov 27, 2013
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Toshiba Satellite L305D S5869. 4 GIG Memory, 110 Gig Hard drive, AMD Dual Core QL-60 1.9 GHZ, Windows Vista Business SP2.
Recently I began experiencing problems with occasionally not being able to power up this laptop regardless of whether there's a battery inserted or just the power supply is connected. Sometimes I have to press the power button on and off 3 to 5 times before it will POST and boot.
Everytime I press the power button the power indicator light lights up green, the fan comes on and I can hear the optical drive start up but sometimes nothing else happens; no Toshiba splash screen, no BIOS load and no Windows boot. If I keep turning the system off and back on, I eventually can get the laptop to power up. Once it does boot, I do not notice any unusual behavior.
To resolve this problem I've already tried:
1. The hard reset....remove battery, disconnect power supply, hold down power button for 30 seconds. Doesn't do anything different.
2. Attaching an external monitor to verify LCD display working or not. External display shows "no signal" when laptop doesn't power up.
3. Re-seated the hard drive and the memory sticks. No difference after reseating.
4. Ran a memtest utility. Mem test passed. No errors.
5. Ran a hard drive check. Used Seatools for Windows, short drive self test and short drive generic test both passed.
6. Defaulted BIOS settings. Made no difference
7. Checked power supply voltage with a multi meter (19.6 volts).
8. Ran check disk. Found 1 bad cluster in hiberfil.sys file which was repaired. FYI...I never use Hibernation mode and after the file was repaired the laptop still exhibits the same occasional symptoms.
Looking for the next step in troubleshooting. Is the mobo dying? Could it be the power button itself? CPU maybe? Please help if you can.
Thx
Recently I began experiencing problems with occasionally not being able to power up this laptop regardless of whether there's a battery inserted or just the power supply is connected. Sometimes I have to press the power button on and off 3 to 5 times before it will POST and boot.
Everytime I press the power button the power indicator light lights up green, the fan comes on and I can hear the optical drive start up but sometimes nothing else happens; no Toshiba splash screen, no BIOS load and no Windows boot. If I keep turning the system off and back on, I eventually can get the laptop to power up. Once it does boot, I do not notice any unusual behavior.
To resolve this problem I've already tried:
1. The hard reset....remove battery, disconnect power supply, hold down power button for 30 seconds. Doesn't do anything different.
2. Attaching an external monitor to verify LCD display working or not. External display shows "no signal" when laptop doesn't power up.
3. Re-seated the hard drive and the memory sticks. No difference after reseating.
4. Ran a memtest utility. Mem test passed. No errors.
5. Ran a hard drive check. Used Seatools for Windows, short drive self test and short drive generic test both passed.
6. Defaulted BIOS settings. Made no difference
7. Checked power supply voltage with a multi meter (19.6 volts).
8. Ran check disk. Found 1 bad cluster in hiberfil.sys file which was repaired. FYI...I never use Hibernation mode and after the file was repaired the laptop still exhibits the same occasional symptoms.
Looking for the next step in troubleshooting. Is the mobo dying? Could it be the power button itself? CPU maybe? Please help if you can.
Thx
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