Comments on: Toshiba Satellite M35X-S149 laptop video problem

By: danushka

danushka — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:31:30 +0000

Thanks so much for your great information and pictures, it helps a lot when I am reading the problems you had with your customers because it save me so much time. I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your work and keep up the good work! Thanks

By: David.G

David.G — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:04:40 +0000

Hi, my gf’s Toshiba m40X has just had the screen go. It is bleeding colours all over the place, then the screen has horizontal lines and the screen becomes unreadable. I have tried to reseat all the video leads, connections to the Fl inverter etc. Would a colour bleeding screen more likly be a LCD prob, cable, or FL inverter problem. Id like to note that when i hook up a external screen it works fine.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:31:31 +0000

To Greg who wrote post number 60, you sir are a genius. I had taken apart my wife’s Toshiba M35X laptop due to a power issue. Once inside I was able to fix the power but upon putting it back together the video WOULD NOT WORK!!! So after trying just about everything I assumed that I had fried the video chip and would need to get a new board. After I read your post about resetting the processor I decided to try it… at first it didn’t work and would beep like it couldn’t post so the next thing I did was to change the memory chip to the alternate slot.. and then I tried resetting the processor one more time according to your specification… low and behold it booted right up! The monitor came on and it’s working now! I can’t thank you enough for this astute observation and will be spreading the word on this. This is such a great site and such a great service. I hope all of you are able to fix your problems here. GOOD LUCK!!

By: Petro

Petro — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:08:50 +0000

I wonder if you can advise. My A30’s video out does not appear to work anymore. It use to but had a cable connected to my tv when we had a power cut… that was it it still thinks it is switching from the laptop screen to the external screen but nothing comes up on the external screen.

By: Tami

Tami — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:13:24 +0000

Hi,I have a problem with my hp nx7300 laptop,it doesnt’start anymore, I found the problem TPS51120(stand by power 5v,3.3V and drives the mos transistors),and VK1 which is located under modem,and in it enters the 5V stand by current.
I post some photos with them
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/3620/vk1.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img.....01193t.jpg

Please help me,you’ve my email address,thanks

By: Malik Hawkins

Malik Hawkins — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:38:49 +0000

I have a Gateway 280 laptop that has an issue with external monitor. There are times when I connect an external monitor and then switch the laptop LCD to the external display and the external display has a major green tint to it. You can see the icons, with a little skewing of font image, but the entire screen has a green look to it. I tried another cable, no luck. The crazy thing is that when I connect it to a projector system at work, the projector does not even see the laptop. The message on the projector screen just says “no signal”. When I connect the projector then reboot the machine, Windows boots up with the image on the external monitor, but by the time it reaches the log-in screen, it disappears again. After log-in, there is nothing on the projector screen. The vga connector port on the laptop seems fine, but what gives? Please help. I will have to buy another laptop if I cannot get this fixed by this weekend.

By: LuigiZ

LuigiZ — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:46 +0000

I seem to have fixed it. I tried flashing the bios using a floppy disk, but I forgot the floppy drive wasn’t working. As this old laptop only lets me flash the bios using a floppy disk, I opened it to take a closer look at the floppy drive, and noticed a problem with the flexible flat cable that connects this drive to the mainboard. A couple of the metallic conductors at the end of this cable were folded, aparently as a result from forcing the cable back into its socket a long time ago. Having fixed that problem seemed to have fixed the blank screen problem for some reason.

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:35:54 +0000

LuigiZ,

The problem is that when I turn on the laptop, only a blank screen shows up

Are you sure the screen is completely blank? Take a closer look, maybe you can see a very faint image? If you do, it’s possible you have a failing inverter board or backlight lamp.

By: LuigiZ

LuigiZ — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:24:42 +0000

I have this blank-screen-at-boot issue with my old
Satellite 2250xcds. The problem is that when I turn on the laptop, only a blank screen shows up, I can hear the OS sounds so I know it is working. I used an external screen and it worked fine. But when I restart the laptop using the on/off button, after having left it on for for a couple of minutes (with the blank screen), the laptop boots up normally with the lcd screen working perfect. I know it’s not a loose cable issue, I opened it to check it myself and everything seems to be in order. I don’t know what else to do to get it fixed, maybe flashing the bios would help… Any thoughts?

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:04:30 +0000

I disassembled my Satellite M35X-S149 to repair a cold solder joint on the DC power socket. When plugging the LCD wire harness back into the mother board I found a black wire coming out the middle of the harness with a lug on the end. It is obviously supposed to be secured by a screw somewhere within an inch or so. I just can’t figure out where to put it. HELP. Thanks