Hi,

I recently got a couple Toshiba Portege 3110CT laptops - one needed a new hard drive and that machine is running absolutely fine, and the other had an almost blank drive that needed wiping and Windows 98 reinstalling. This second one worked for a while, but at one point during loading software I left it alone for a couple hours then came back to it and it was kind of beeping/clicking from the speaker and the screen was corrupt. I turned it off and on again but now I just get a blank screen.

I don't even get the BIOS Toshiba logo and the backlight doesn't turn on. I get no beeps or anything. I have noticed though through chance then trial and error that if I hold down F12 and power it on, the screen stays black but the backlight comes on! So it's not quite 100% dead, just about 99.99% dead 😀

Any tips? I've tried with no HDD or extra RAM connected and still nothing. I've left it alone for a few days and still no different.

Cheers,
Steve