Laptop: Toshiba Satellite Pro L4500D-12X
HDD: Hitachi 5K500 B-160 (SATA 160gb/5400rpm)
RAM: 2x 1gb DDR2
OS: Windows 7 Pro Academic
Description of issue:
Laptop shut down correctly last night. This morning: open lid, press power on button. Then Toshiba splash screen (logo & press F2 for bios, F12 for boot order). Then blank screen (black) with flashing cursor in top LHS of screen. This continues indefinately ie no more words/sentences etc and no loading of windows. just flashing cursor in top LHS.
Ive tried all the following procedures with no success:
1) power on with battery removed
2) removing/swapping RAM (all combinations/all slots)
3) removing and reattaching HDD
4) booting from windows CD (always gets so far then crashes with a blue screen and error "stop 0x0000007B (0xf78d663c 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)"
5) tested HDD with SeaTools CD. HDD passed both short and long tests
6) removed HDD and put into SATA to USB caddy and connected to another laptop. HDD is viewable as Recovery (E and System (F. Can access HDD and transfer fles etc
I'm now completely stuck as its like the laptop knows the HDD is there but wont start it. pressing F2 to get to the bios settings and it shows up there ok. even the seatools was able to test it. it just wont start up and load windows.
any help would be very gratefully recieved as its my daughters laptop.
thanks
HDD: Hitachi 5K500 B-160 (SATA 160gb/5400rpm)
RAM: 2x 1gb DDR2
OS: Windows 7 Pro Academic
Description of issue:
Laptop shut down correctly last night. This morning: open lid, press power on button. Then Toshiba splash screen (logo & press F2 for bios, F12 for boot order). Then blank screen (black) with flashing cursor in top LHS of screen. This continues indefinately ie no more words/sentences etc and no loading of windows. just flashing cursor in top LHS.
Ive tried all the following procedures with no success:
1) power on with battery removed
2) removing/swapping RAM (all combinations/all slots)
3) removing and reattaching HDD
4) booting from windows CD (always gets so far then crashes with a blue screen and error "stop 0x0000007B (0xf78d663c 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)"
5) tested HDD with SeaTools CD. HDD passed both short and long tests
6) removed HDD and put into SATA to USB caddy and connected to another laptop. HDD is viewable as Recovery (E and System (F. Can access HDD and transfer fles etc
I'm now completely stuck as its like the laptop knows the HDD is there but wont start it. pressing F2 to get to the bios settings and it shows up there ok. even the seatools was able to test it. it just wont start up and load windows.
any help would be very gratefully recieved as its my daughters laptop.
thanks