Reset bios on a Toshiba l655-s5154 laptop

[NYJimbo]

Originally Posted by KC Tech

I described the problem as I saw it. The backlight came on but nothing showed on the screen. I left it on for an hour to listen out for the windows boot sound but didn't hear it. All I heard was the fan turn on, turn off, then nothing.

The L655 has a hard drive light, if you were smart enough to listen for the drive you are smart enough to look at the obvious hard drive light. Since it did boot you would have seen the hard drive light. That's the point I am trying to make. If you say that only the back light came on then we assume nothing else happened and then we go down the list of things to try.

But since you knew enough to try to listen for the HD activity certainly you were able to notice the very noticeable blinking led on the front marked with the HD symbol that would show you it was booting. I mean you had it up for an hour.

Unless of course you don't know what the hard drive light means, well then thats something else altogether.

[KC Tech]

There was no hard drive activity. It stopped at a screen that asked is you wanted to do a windows start up repair therefore there was no hard drive activity until you made a choice. I have a laptop which I use daily and I know how the hard drive sounds and about the activity light. There was nothing on the screen and no hard drive activity.

[NYJimbo]

Originally Posted by KC Tech

There was no hard drive activity. It stopped at a screen that asked is you wanted to do a windows start up repair therefore there was no hard drive activity until you made a choice. I have a laptop which I use daily and I know how the hard drive sounds and about the activity light. There was nothing on the screen and no hard drive activity.

Impossible. There is noticeable disk i/o up to that point and then if you do not select the windows repair on the "windows error recovery" it will boot after counting down a timer. In most cases it will boot to the repair. So there would be a lot of disk i/o and it would be clearly visible on that HD light. You also said you had it up for an hour so it would have kept doing disk i/o. I work on that model all the time and that model almost always has windows 7 loaded (unless they downgraded for some reason which I doubt) so thats how it would work.

Look, you made a mistake on diagnosis, we all do it sometimes, but I was only trying to tell you that when you ask for help you have to be more specific with what you see. If you were listening for disk i/o why would you not also be looking at the light on the front which is impossible to miss.

If you would have said "I only see the backlight come on and then there is alot of disk drive light flashing" I can tell you a dozen techs here would have told you the first thing to do is hook up an external monitor.

[KC Tech]

You say you work on this model all the time. Where would be a good place to order parts for it? I'm looking for the cable that connects the lcd to the motherboard.