fano3 wrote:
>
> My Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 running Vista froze and would not
> respond. I held the power button down to shut down. I have been unable
> to start the computer since. I receive the message: "Disk Read Error.
> Press Alt-Ctrl-Del to restart" Have done this hundreds of times and
> nothing. Researched various places as to what to do and cannot come up
> with a fix. Have used the Recovery Disk that came with it, the Ultimate
> Boot disc, and several other fix tries...but nothing works.
>
> So I threw in the towel and decided to buy a new hard drive. Installed
> and used the recovery disk that came with the laptop to do a fresh
> install of Windows Vista. Everything went smooth and it restarted and
> as it was starting up, the Vista green "Welcome" screen appears and then
> that's it. The next thing that appears on my screen is black screen
> across the top half and a bottom half with some kind of color pattern
> that looks like you'd get with a smashed monitor or something. And
> that's it. It just hangs there.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on what is going on?
You have hardware failure with components other than the hard drive. Contact
Toshiba tech support for repair/replacement. The only other component aside
from the hard drive that is replaceable by the end user is the RAM. You can
test it, but from your description of the issue I doubt that bad RAM is the
cause. It is probably some component on the motherboard, the video, power,
the motherboard itself, etc.
Malke
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