Have tried getting to recovery mode (Holding power button and volume up button) but screen just goes black instead of the recovery menu. If I don't do anything, the screen goes black for a second and it starts booting again, but same thing happens. Appears to be stuck in a boot loop. I've gotten to the recovery menu once before and everything was fine after for a month or two. I haven't been able to use my tablet in the past month or so because of this problem again.
SOURCE: Gateway Tablet, BSOD unmountable_boot_volume
you have to go to gateway and download the driver for the SATA controller then save it to floppy or cd then hit F6 durning install then it will ask you for the driver. This Tablet will not see a non-gateway cd if you have the one that came with the tablet then you are good, but if not you will need to do this for the current drive or if yo upgrade to newer drive. Hope this get you started, I had this same problem and I thought it was my motherboard was bad because it would not see the hard drive during installation. This fixed my issue with the drive not being seen during installation of the OS.
SOURCE: Toshiba Portege R100 CMOS/BIOS PROBLEM at startup.
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
SOURCE: Turn on computer remains at Thinkpad screen, does
its happen when any drive is not deteching contact ibm care for solution
SOURCE: My hp tx2120 us was
You may have finally run into the dreaded "defective GPU" issue, that plagued HP and other manufacturers. Thousands of defective Nvidia chip sets were used in the manufacture of these laptops and if you got one of these, it would last about a year, then fail, in the just the way you describe. If you were out of warranty, HP took the low road and refused to fix them, unless you ponied up $450. Then they replaced the defective motherboards with a new one, with exactly the same component.
If you have one of these, you will better of buying a new machine. I'd avoid HP though.
SOURCE: my tablet is not powering on..it is getting charge
Two most probable problems:
-bad battery
-bad motherboard
If it's still under warranty, get it repaired.
If not, buy a new one
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