Toshiba Tecra 8100 No Display
Having owned the Tecra 8100 for about 4 years now, it appeared that it was finally time to invest in a new Laptop when I returned home last night out to a blacked out screen of the Laptop.
As there was no display on the screen, I decided to use an external monitor to analyse the problem which also failed to show anything. At this point I thought either the display driver or the LCD screen of the Laptop has finally given in or it could even possibly be a faulty HDD.
Without any error beeps what so ever and and even lacking a BIOS screen, I decided to strip the laptop, and being a Tecra it was relatively easy to remove the HDD, memory and the CD Rom drive. It is important to note here to remove the battery pack first to avoid any chance of a short circuit. However, removing the LCD Screen and the Keyboard was slightly trickier. Having removed all the main components I started to put them back one by one firmly in place, and testing them as I went along.
Having failed to succeed by swapping the memory modules harrumph. I figured that it was one of the memory slots (slot A in my case) that had must have got damaged some how. As taking the memory module out from the memory slot in question brought the Laptop back to life.
Although on Windows 2000, using one memeory slot it only has 64MB. But its up and running now....
As there was no display on the screen, I decided to use an external monitor to analyse the problem which also failed to show anything. At this point I thought either the display driver or the LCD screen of the Laptop has finally given in or it could even possibly be a faulty HDD.
Without any error beeps what so ever and and even lacking a BIOS screen, I decided to strip the laptop, and being a Tecra it was relatively easy to remove the HDD, memory and the CD Rom drive. It is important to note here to remove the battery pack first to avoid any chance of a short circuit. However, removing the LCD Screen and the Keyboard was slightly trickier. Having removed all the main components I started to put them back one by one firmly in place, and testing them as I went along.
Having failed to succeed by swapping the memory modules harrumph. I figured that it was one of the memory slots (slot A in my case) that had must have got damaged some how. As taking the memory module out from the memory slot in question brought the Laptop back to life.
Although on Windows 2000, using one memeory slot it only has 64MB. But its up and running now....
posted by kipper at 9:49 AM
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Just to add my 2 cents since I just read this now:
From what I can see and read, there is no simple fix - its a design flaw. I've seen this with 5 other of the same units. (we had a pile of these donated by a tech company, which we refurbished and donated to some charities - a few have come back dead like this, with people asking if they did something wrong).
Out of curiosity, I did some googling, removed the memory from one slot and it runs now... but with half the memory.
Running with W98 and 64MB of ram sux, but the machine will have to relegated to print server status. Or doorstop.
On the bright side, you can buy a new machine with 10x the power and features these days for, literally, 1/10 of what this cost back in 1999. Hopefully its more reliable though.
I truly believe that we have reached the point where technology has become one with our society, and I think it is safe to say that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside... I just hope that as technology further innovates, the possibility of copying our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's a fantasy that I dream about almost every day.
(Posted on Nintendo DS running [url=http://www.leetboss.com/video-games/r4i-r4-sdhc-nintendo-ds]R4i[/url] DS NePof)
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