[lug] Toshiba Satellite goes blank.

[Nate Duehr]

You have to hold that silly thing down RIGHT as you power it up, if I
remember correctly...

Or are Toshibas F1?  Aruugh... can't remember.

I know they come up usually with another screen, that says nothing but
Press F1 to Continue... then you get into BIOS.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:41:02PM -0600, John Starkey wrote:
> I've got an old Toshiba Satellite 205CDS that I'm setting up with just the essentials (ssh,ftp,etc.). 
> 
> The only way I've been able to get it to show the BIOS is to take the battery out to clear everything. All the websites I've found say that holding esc down during power-on is supposed to display the BIOS. But that's not working.
> 
> Anyway. So I accidentally take the battery out while it's shutting down and now it's only showing a blank screen (yeah, I put the battery back in :} ). I'm hoping something as simple as that wouldn't trash it. This is my first laptop. Is that the case? If that's uncommon, does anyone know if there's a battery other than the battery pack that keeps the clock ticking and could be holding a "resume" state on this thing? I'm kinda hesitant to open it up at the moment.
> 
> I'm not sure if I can live with myself if'n fact I destroyed a $25 laptop? :{
> 
> TIA,
> 
> John
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