Comments on: My Toshiba Satellite A85-S107 will not boot

By: tortoise

tortoise — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:58:20 +0000

The Toshiba A85-s107 has a design and manufacturing error that causes the mainboard to have errors and eventually fail. The board design itself is ok, but the underside of the top of the case has gold colored metal particles sprayed on with a glue to control EM emissions from the electronic components, which is required by the FCC. Unfortunately, the glue fails and the particles begin to fall off into the mainboard, shorting the on board components. The fix is to disassemble the laptop completely, carefully cleaning all the particles off the mainboard (I use canned air and cotton swabs with 91% isopropol alcohol. Be careful not to leave any cotton strands behind.), AND using a good quality plastic bonding spray paint, spray 2 or 3 very light coats of paint onto the part of the case with the metal particles. Be sure to tape all the metal grounding contacts attached to the case so that they will make contact with the mainboard’s contacts. Otherwise further damage could result to the mainboard.

Good luck!

By: phillip

phillip — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:27:41 +0000

I have a Tohiba Satellite A85-s107.. I cannot get past the CMOS boot password.. It started not allowing our previous password.. where is the CMOS battery? what would you recommed to fix it?

By: robert

robert — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:57:47 +0000

have a a85-s107 gives me an error at bootup resource conflict-pci on motherboard bus:02,device:03,function:00
if i turn the lan off in the bios it will boot with no error but will not recognize my pcmia or internal wireless help please

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:34:58 +0000

To remove the memory module uner the keyboard, I just cut off te strip of plastic above it. Be careful.

By: vijay

vijay — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:07:02 +0000

The solution works, thanks a lot. My laptop now turns on by pressing the keys [X,C,V] and the power button. The switch board cable is just underneath those keys.

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:06:12 +0000

latory,
Could be bad memory. If you have two memory modules, you can remove them one by one and test the laptop with each module separately.
Let’s say the laptop works fine with one module but will not start with the second one. That means the second memory module is bad and has to be replaced.

Also, test your laptop with an external monitor. If external monitor is working fine, it’s not memory related problem. Something is wrong with the laptop display.

By: latory

latory — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:56:46 +0000

My Toshiba will not start it use to start just fine but it stop. It will begin to act like it is starting and even not shut down but nothing shows on it.

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:32:50 +0000

shaolinprince,
It looks like you posted the same question in the other thread and I posted my suggestions in there. Anyway, if you know for sure that the memory module and hard drive are good, most likely you have a problem with the motherboard.

By: shaolinprince

shaolinprince — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:55:23 +0000

I have an IBM ThinkPad R51 and it just recently it stopped working. It was working fine and then the screen froze. I did a hard reboot but it does not show anything on the screen (the power and battery light comes on) and it did not go through its POST with no hard drive activity. I turn it on and off and sometimes it will display the IBM screen and I am able to put in the boot up password and I am able to log in to Windows (XP) but after a second or two, it freezes again. I tested the hard drive in my other ThinkPad R51 and it works perfectly for hours. I also replaced the memory in the defective one and it came up for a few minutes and then I get like a small static (for a second or two) on the screen and it freezes again and sometimes the screen will go black and then back to the frozen screen. When I can get the IBM boot screen, (maybe every 15 or 20 tries or if I leave it for a few hours) it will not allow me to get into the BIOS screen because I get that static and it freezes again. The hard drive is working and the memory is OK (I even swapped memory and memory slots). I cannot figure out what is the problem. Is it a video connection (I removed the keyboard and reconnected the video connection)? Would a video problem cause the freezing? Thanks for any help you can provide.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:16:40 +0000

I can not get my battery to charge. I can plug my adapter cord in and the comp works fine but won’t charge the battery…
PLEASE HELP ME!!!