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Toshiba R65 Blank screen

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October 5, 2009 7:30:58 AM

I have a Toshiba R65 laptop which has never let me down. Obviously overtime the battery has worn out.
I bought a new battery and fitted it straight away. When i booted up the laptop everything was running fine but the screen judt remained blank.
No flashing cursor in the corner nothing.

Does anyone have any idea as to what may have happened.

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October 5, 2009 2:44:48 PM

One of our work toshiba's suddenly stopped displaying anything on the screen. Turned out it was RAM and wasn't posting or anything. try taking out a stick of RAM (assuming you have 2) and trying different combos.
October 5, 2009 2:53:29 PM

Could you still hear the HD running as normal though ?
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October 5, 2009 9:25:01 PM


first of all plug and external monitor in.

check the fan spins up on the processor heat sink

clean it out if its full of dust
remove the battery and turn it on
remove a ram chip and try that

failing that search google in your area for laptop repairs ( i do one in essex ) - no 1 i hope, and get a company to quote for you.
October 6, 2009 7:01:35 AM

Thanks for that i,ll give it a run tonight, will let you know how i get on.
October 6, 2009 3:54:58 PM

Reseat the Ram,battery,HDD and the DVD drive. Have seen that fix a lot of minor issues for no apparent reason.
If that does not work and you don't mind opening the machine you could always reset the bios by disconnecting the internal battery for a few min.
Other that that try booting it without the battery in the machine, jst run it on mains power.

Was the new battery you got an official Tosh part? have seen some laptops go into 'protect mode' after getting a power surge, often from third party dodgy batteries or chargers.
October 7, 2009 8:10:04 AM

Hi plasmastorm,

no, the battery is a genuine chinese copy of Ebay. same voltage, ampage etc, looks the parts and does everything is says on the tin, but i cant get the screen to fire up.
I,ll try what you say cos there is power in the battery.
Cheers Pal!
October 7, 2009 3:19:32 PM

No worries, i spend about 80% of my day at work fixing laptops with a wide range of faults from being dropped to one that was pulled from a burning car haha.

Just PM me if you need any more advice on it.
October 7, 2009 3:40:28 PM

That'll be great pal !
Thanks a million.
November 4, 2011 7:43:59 PM

oh here we go - look at the droves of people copying my lead
November 4, 2011 8:41:40 PM

At least you took the time to establish credibility round here and never resorted to necro posting or blatant spam over 6 threads.
November 7, 2011 8:31:53 PM

audiovoodoo said:
At least you took the time to establish credibility round here and never resorted to necro posting or blatant spam over 6 threads.




yeah i tried :)  but you know im just sick of helping people out now Voodoo when i get paid nothing for it..

I mean ive done this for nearly 28 years and there are so many people want this profession on the cheap it aint worth doing it anymore... Im seriously considering doing something else - learn another trade right now as there is more information helping people with computer problems than any other trade on the net- it doesnt tell you how to repair a car like a computer problem or build a house for example !!

Educate people and the trade will fail :(  as there is less use for techies - or am i just beeing nasty ??
a b D Laptop
November 8, 2011 5:56:16 AM



When one of your main competitors is the recently re-named bunch down at PC World who do nothing much under a hundred quid, what are you calling cheapr, Hellboy? You almost certainly do a better job, more quickly and on a beter personal basis and ater 28 years, you probably have a following of regulars who recommend you to others.

I onloy started this lark in 2002 as a run down towards old-age when I closed my other businesses and stopped employing other people. I never expected to see the same customer twice but it hasn't worked out like that. Forty per-cent of what I did last month was for people I'd already worked with.

If you give up, who will look after all your regulars? What will you do that give you more satisfaction than knowing every day will be different? You'll never stop learning this business so it keeps your brain going when many other trades turn into nothing but repetitive same old same old every day.

Anyway - what was the now removed necro-post that started this off? :D 


November 8, 2011 9:56:11 AM

Hellboy said:
yeah i tried :)  but you know im just sick of helping people out now Voodoo when i get paid nothing for it..

I mean ive done this for nearly 28 years and there are so many people want this profession on the cheap it aint worth doing it anymore... Im seriously considering doing something else - learn another trade right now as there is more information helping people with computer problems than any other trade on the net- it doesnt tell you how to repair a car like a computer problem or build a house for example !!

Educate people and the trade will fail :(  as there is less use for techies - or am i just beeing nasty ??


It's a good question. I left my IT job at the start of the year to do some travel. Just had enough of being treated like a doormat and being expected to train a non tech to do my job when he was on a retained wage 15% higher than mine having worked for the company a couple of years. It's a good job he was a nice guy and became a friend or I'd have just told him complete crap.

Since coming back I've been on the dole a few months. All the IT jobs I'm looking at seem to have crashed in earning potential and roles seem to have been combined. I got interviewed for an opps job that was paying ~£20k but wanted full sys admin and development skills. Hell, I was earning more than that as a tester back in '99.

In my last role I was sys / software support for financial software. Clients would call up and I'd need to talk to their IT department, as it needed work on their system, only to be told they no longer have IT in the UK and that I would have to stay late so I could call their US head office or Indian support team. It got silly at times with complaints we hadn't fixed the problem inside SLA, but that's impossible when you can't actually speak to their IT guys because they don't have any!

I don't think helping folks round here is the problem for my market, but I can see how it might knock on to yours if it's PC repairs and config. Friends who I fix machines for say I should start my own business but then I point out how much I would have to charge to make any money and they do the 'But I can get a new laptop for the same price as a few hours of your time' completely forgetting tax, insurance, transport etc etc. Falling HW prices and a disposable mentality have to be part of it.

Me? I'm currently at the point of looking at the bottom of the food chain job wise. It's a bleak market in most sectors from where I'm sat. :( 
a b D Laptop
November 8, 2011 5:23:26 PM



There's pretty small chance of spoiling your own business opportunities just by posting advice on Forums. Tom's is global - how many folks around here are in my catchment area of a twenty mile radius of Newport Pagnell? Mind you, if either of you fellows start up in this area, I will let your tyres down. :D 

November 8, 2011 6:08:21 PM

It is cumulative though. A few years back just knowing how to install Windows was enough for some people to get a job in IT. It still brasses me off though that people I know expect me to fix their machines for free. They know they have to pay the mechanic, builder etc but as they don't see me doing anything physical they don't see any value despite the years of reading and experimentation it's taken me to acquire my skill set. I got told I was being a bastard when I turned round to somebody in the office who was asking me to take a look at their home laptop for the second time in a month and told them my rates start at £40 an hour for consultancy - I told them to go shove it up PC Worlds ass.

The exception to this rule is people who are self employed, they always seem to have a greater appreciation that time alone is worth something and that skills are as valid as physical labour.
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