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Toshiba satelite a205-5000

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Hammy - Aug 24, 2012 at 07:24 PM
 hammy - Aug 26, 2012 at 09:58 AM
something like fried my laptop bios comes up but F2 or F12 does not work it just says please wait forever ... i want to boot from an sd or jump drive but i cant even get to the boot menu it just stays on the toshiba intel screen i have no clue where to start i was just thinking about getting a new hard drive and ram chips but dont wanna waste the money if my board is fryed any1 have any ideas?

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xpcman Posts 19532 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,830
Aug 24, 2012 at 10:54 PM
I suggest you save your money (and time) and buy a new laptop.
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hammy
Aug 26, 2012 at 09:58 AM
I fixed it, it was a hard drive malfunction, i took out the internal hard drive, then was able to access bio's , re attached the hdd then ran system check and recovery, i reinstalled windows vista and all of the damn updates its running great again ....
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