I've got a Toshiba laptop running 32x Windows 7 Home and I'm stumped.
A couple days ago I got a crash dump blue screen. When I shut it down and restarted it, I got a blue screen again right after the Windows logo. It was not on the screen long enough for me to read the error codes.
After that, it would only boot to a black screen with a movable cursor. Tried Ctrl+Alt+Del and nothing happened. I was able to boot into safe mode, opened the registry editor, and found no errors in /winlogon. Gave up for the day and shut it down.
Next day, the computer wouldn't even boot into safe mode. Nor would it boot into recovery mode. I got the same black screen with cursor in both.
Booted from Hiren's to run memtest which also found no errors. Also ran a virus scan from Hiren's and found nothing. After that one successful boot from CD/DVD, the computer stopped being able to boot from CD/DVD. So I cannot boot from my windows recovery disk to enter recovery mode either. Resetting BIOS and changing boot order did not solve the issue.
I can still boot to USB, but that's it.
I think the issue might be BIOS related, but Toshiba only offers a way to flash bios via CD/DVD, which I can't do. I've tried setting up a flash drive as bootable and loading the BIOS files on to it, but I can't figure out how to launch the update from there.
I read that Toshiba laptops can supposedly be reset to factory default settings through a menu accessed by holding the 0 key when powering on. Tried that and was taken to no such menu.
Anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? Computer is only a few years old and was running great a couple days ago, now it's bricked. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can at least get into factory reset or windows recovery mode?
A couple days ago I got a crash dump blue screen. When I shut it down and restarted it, I got a blue screen again right after the Windows logo. It was not on the screen long enough for me to read the error codes.
After that, it would only boot to a black screen with a movable cursor. Tried Ctrl+Alt+Del and nothing happened. I was able to boot into safe mode, opened the registry editor, and found no errors in /winlogon. Gave up for the day and shut it down.
Next day, the computer wouldn't even boot into safe mode. Nor would it boot into recovery mode. I got the same black screen with cursor in both.
Booted from Hiren's to run memtest which also found no errors. Also ran a virus scan from Hiren's and found nothing. After that one successful boot from CD/DVD, the computer stopped being able to boot from CD/DVD. So I cannot boot from my windows recovery disk to enter recovery mode either. Resetting BIOS and changing boot order did not solve the issue.
I can still boot to USB, but that's it.
I think the issue might be BIOS related, but Toshiba only offers a way to flash bios via CD/DVD, which I can't do. I've tried setting up a flash drive as bootable and loading the BIOS files on to it, but I can't figure out how to launch the update from there.
I read that Toshiba laptops can supposedly be reset to factory default settings through a menu accessed by holding the 0 key when powering on. Tried that and was taken to no such menu.
Anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? Computer is only a few years old and was running great a couple days ago, now it's bricked. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can at least get into factory reset or windows recovery mode?
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