Toshiba Portege 500 Laptop

First, give the screen a good cleaning using a microfiber cloth. This may inadvertently remove the lines even though they are in the display.

If this doesn't work, you'll have to send the laptop back for repairs. Screens are not a component that can be replaced easily (such as RAM or a hard drive).

If your laptop is not under warranty, scope out some local computer shops that can replace the display for you. Make sure to ask them for a quote BEFORE they do work on your computer, otherwise they have the right to deny you your laptop, once they fix it, until you pay up (a possibly very nasty price).

try to boot to windows xp or dos command, for winXP go to recovery console-select your windows-type the admin password then if C:\WINDOWS come up type chkdsk /r if that doesnt help, repair your operating system or backup your files and reinstall your operating system.

they are shortcuts you can make to programs and files


this is coming from my own experiance

and today my toshiba portege m200 fell and a peice came off oh well

When you power up press F2 or "del" to enter in bios .
then set first boot option to as your dvd drive so then put winxp disk then it boot with it.

You need a replacement keyboard.

I'd look at trying to replace the BIOS battery...
Check out this guide for dis assembly instructions :
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Toshiba_Portege_R100/remove_system_board_1.htm

Open your system bios setup. Then under the boot options make sure your cd drive is one of the drives enabled in the boot path. Hope this helps & please remember to rate my answer. Thanks.

We use these and several times I have had to pull the battery, disconnect the power cord and hold the power button for 30 seconds (count slow). After that, it boots fine.

I found the same problem on one that I bought from a guy for $100. He had been picking it up by the screen and every connector in the screen and the pivot came loose. I was able to tighten every thing back up and now I have a real nice laptop.

Hi

You can obtain the Recovery disk from Toshiba. Toshiba hotline number 1-800-457-7777 (US) 0844 800 6020 (UK). You need to provide your computer's part number correct to get the matching recovery disk. Usually they charges $39.95 including shipping to your address in US. Alternately you can go to http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/generic_content.jsp?service=UK&ID=Support_Homepage_uk

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