Hi there
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100. At the moment the machine will not boot up.
Can you help.
The battery is fully charged. the power lights come on Battery, Power, screen,
CD rom drive. all green.
I can not get into the bios, or to the A DRIVE . The screen does not light.
The fan does not run.
when shutting down I get a 1 long beep- 3 short beeps.
Can you please advise me.
Thank you for your help
wca21 United Kingdom
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Jump to PostHi there
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100. At the moment the machine will not boot up.
Can you help.
The battery is fully charged. the power lights come on Battery, Power, screen,
CD rom drive. all green.
I can not get into the bios, or to the A DRIVE …
Jump to PostThank you for your reply
Here are the answers you requested
1 No new Hardware installed
2 When lightly tapping on the back of machine it did work.
3 No virus down loads protected with NORTON SYMANTICS
4 BIOS DOWN LOADED FROM Toshiba web site for this model Intel Pentium …
Jump to PostJANINE, you're off the track here.
wca21, 1 long, 3 short beeps from a boot failure generally indicates a hardware problem with either RAM or display adaptor, depending on the BIOS version. I'd suggest you need to get that laptop checked out by a technician.
Jump to Posti found a website or 2 for u. seems like you're not the only 1
http://notebookforums.com/archive/index.php/f-68.html
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/jive3/thread.jspa?threadID=4013also try googleing the error like me
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=toshiba+tecra+8100+won%27t+boot++up&hl=en&lr=&start=50&sa=N:twisted:
Jump to PostJANINE, you're off the track here.
wca21, 1 long, 3 short beeps from a boot failure generally indicates a hardware problem with either RAM or display adaptor, depending on the BIOS version. I'd suggest you need to get that laptop checked out by a technician.
i said that before anyway.:) …
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