Jude 2

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S253 that was given to me .

Has a problem (and NO a Mac will not fix it)

It will not power up. I was told it needed a power cord. got one.
Still will not power up.

Here is the tricky part. Techies are you sitting down with the popcorn.


I can put a CD in the laptop and play the CD. Skip tracks control volume, pause/play/stop. It has dedicated buttons on the top front for the cd player.

It will charge.. Charge light comes on. Cd plays on the battery and plugged in.

I called Toshiba tech support . Warranty expired in 2002. But I told him what it was doing and he forgave the supprt fee to listen and talk about the problem. He found it interesting also. LOL

Here is how you can help.
I need a website on how to open this laptop up. I did it once on a 8100 and had screws left over LOL

I'm loosing faith in you Billy, I thought you were the techie! LOL!

If you figure out how to open the case, push down on the upper right corner of the motherboard. These Toshibas had a habit of the solder coming loose. If it turns on while your pressing in on the corner of the motherboard, theres your problem.

these computers were known to have start-up problems. Alot of people complained about them locking up.

I know this sounds obvious, but are you sure it's not starting up but the LCD is out? I've not worked with Toshiba as much, but it is getting power to play the CDs. I'd hook it up to an external display and try again.

good idea!

Bill, that is a good idea. and I tried it.

But the thing is even if the display does not work there are other lights and sounds that come on with these laptops.
Power, hard Drive caps lock etc Nada nothing

The only lights that come on (which tells me the power cord and input are working) is the Battery Charging light and when you switch the CD on the cd light comes on.

Oh the CD player has a dedicated power button for itself.

My next step is to open it up and check the on/off button underneith the outer shell.

Thats why I am wanting to find a "how to take a part manual" for it.

Generally they won't make those instructions public (Dell only makes them available to certified techs) We looked at Toshiba a few years ago, and one of the issues we had with them was they are even harder to get approved for self-support.

On most laptops I've worked with getting to the actual power button on the board isn't too bad, usually just remove the top bezel, but of course it may be placed elsewhere on this model.

It sounds to me like either it's the button, or your mother board.

Have you tried booting from a Windows CD?

sounds like a power supply issue or a video card issue.

maybe i missed it, but have you tried turning on with an external video source connected (and hitting the appropriate function key combination as necessary). speaking of function keys... have you tried cycleing through the video function key combination to see if it happens to be set an an external only setting?