Notebooks & Netbooks

[philetus]

About a month ago I had a Toshiba A70 would not start until I replaced the cmos battery.

[Assistant]

Thanks Monika and Philetus
I had considered the glue idea before, but wanted to hold off at the time. Since it doesn't look like the issue is going to be fixed another way at this point I think I will give it a shot sometime soon. If that doesn't work, I'm guessing the motherboard is fried and will need to be replaced.

I wish it was simply the CMOS afffecting BIOS settings as Monika suggested, but with the screen being completely unresponsive I don't think the computer is even getting that far. The only signs of activity are the power light and fan.

The help on this forum has been very informative, even if it was mostly bad news for the laptop, haha (my fault). I will try out the glue on the battery, and if that is unsuccessful, replace the MB. I am pretty confident that would solve the issue. Thanks again for all of the help!