This is with HDD and CD-ROM removed. I tried booting with either stick of ram removed and it was still the same
When i turn off quiet boot in the bios setup, I get the following logs:
223M System RAM Passed
512K Cache SRAM Passed
System BIOS shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed
Mouse Initialized
(then it halts here)
I also turned off IDE and IR in the bios, didn’t help. Enabled a setting so it beeps when it starts booting the OS but the beep never comes which means it is stuck in POST.
It also can’t reach boot device selection menu.
This machine was in pretty bad shape when i got it and I basically had to take it apart and put it back together.
CPU was repasted and there is no way it is overheating since I can stay in the BIOS as long as I want to and the fan kicks on when the CPU starts heating up.
There were apparently PCI diagnostic cards for these machines but they are hard to find where I live. So guesses to which stage boot is failing in is appreciated.
It’s a Toshiba A30
When I hold pause, it shows me a blue rectangle and reboots, then fails to boot as always. Hitting repeatedly has the same effect.
Idk what type the “mouse” is, touchpad has a 4 pin ribbon connector
I can reach somewhere like this when I hold both printsc and pause, then it crashes shortly after
do you get a POST beep?
if the pause button crashes the system, thats not a good sign. basically its haulting the CPU and if the CPU is unstable and the system cannot “pause” in that BIOS system, not a good sign.
are you able to open and save the BIOS? resetting to factory defaults doesn’t work? try turning off any auto setting. does it have a diagnostics?