Hello, I am new to these forums as far as posting, but I have skimmed over them and I have not found any information for the problem I am about to show here... but forgive me if I am posting about something previously answered...
My Toshiba M205 I recieved as a prize from AOLs 'Technology' giveaway, I already have a laptop, but I am planning on using the Toshiba for back to school, (its decently old, however it is still pretty much up to par as far as everything goes) but, when I try to boot it up (from a crash, I noticed a rainbow effect and tearing of the screen before it) the text on the screen is all distorted and I can't read anything, it's not a different language... it's just like 'exE133843k' random letters and numbers to make up that screen where it says 'Start Windows Normally, Start Windows in Safe Mode' etc... But when I try to start windows normally, or even in safe mode, it starts to go, and I either get a blue screen, for a brief moment with some random text in it, or the screen turns black and doesnt do anything, I try to put the recovery disk in but I can only access it in safe mode, I called Toshiba and the guy said 'Uhhhh' ... and I took it to the geek squad and they had no idea what was going on, they asked me 'Is your lap top plugged in' ... I took it to the local repair shop, he reset my bios and installed a non tablet version of windows... which was bad because I couldn't do any laptop functions on it, so I reinstalled the tablet version, and I played some games and then I was surfing the internet and that is when the crash occured... it was working fine all the way through the games, it just randomly tears and crashes... I don't know what to do... it's a very nice laptop and I hate to see it just sitting around collecting dust, but I don't have the money to repair it again... any suggestions? Thank you.
My Toshiba M205 I recieved as a prize from AOLs 'Technology' giveaway, I already have a laptop, but I am planning on using the Toshiba for back to school, (its decently old, however it is still pretty much up to par as far as everything goes) but, when I try to boot it up (from a crash, I noticed a rainbow effect and tearing of the screen before it) the text on the screen is all distorted and I can't read anything, it's not a different language... it's just like 'exE133843k' random letters and numbers to make up that screen where it says 'Start Windows Normally, Start Windows in Safe Mode' etc... But when I try to start windows normally, or even in safe mode, it starts to go, and I either get a blue screen, for a brief moment with some random text in it, or the screen turns black and doesnt do anything, I try to put the recovery disk in but I can only access it in safe mode, I called Toshiba and the guy said 'Uhhhh' ... and I took it to the geek squad and they had no idea what was going on, they asked me 'Is your lap top plugged in' ... I took it to the local repair shop, he reset my bios and installed a non tablet version of windows... which was bad because I couldn't do any laptop functions on it, so I reinstalled the tablet version, and I played some games and then I was surfing the internet and that is when the crash occured... it was working fine all the way through the games, it just randomly tears and crashes... I don't know what to do... it's a very nice laptop and I hate to see it just sitting around collecting dust, but I don't have the money to repair it again... any suggestions? Thank you.
