Comments on: Toshiba Satellite L305D not showing video

By: Rob Burns

Rob Burns — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 04:30:52 +0000

I have a Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5983 laptop of my brothers that stopped working on him, so I took a look at it sence I know about computers and he dont.
The problem its haveing is that the whole time he had it. At night before bed he would just close the lid and in the morning and it would be on the same screen he was looking at the previous night. So one morning after waking up he went to lift the lid and all he got was a black screen. There are two green lcd lights that light up in the front below the spacebar. I can hear the fan kick on and possible the hard drive. But there are no lights on the keyboard for like the Num Lock and the Cap Lock. I have a Toshiba Satellite L655-S5096 which i needed a DVD Drive so I swaped my brothers out with myne. And now when I start up my brothers laptop the dvd drive opens. I have already tryed taking the memory out and checking each by them selves. Tryed with taking out the hard drive out and starting it and then turning it off and putting the hard drive back infrom his laptop and restarting with no luck. Also took battery out and unpluged it and held down the power button for a minute and tryed starting it with just the battery and just the power cord and both and still so action. I tryed hooking a HDMI from the laptop to the tv with no luck and i even tryed using a old monitor and connected the VGA end to the laptop and before turning on the laptop the monitor had a green light on and when i turned on the laptop while it connected to the monitor the green light went to a yellow light. I also help a light in front of the monitor screen to see if anything shows up like it shows to do online…
Thats about it on what I tryed. Any suggestions would be very much helpful on helping to troubleshoot this more to see if its worth keeping or is the motherboard fried..
Thanks, Rob

By: David Shefts

David Shefts — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:05:38 +0000

I have two Toshiba L305 and one had this problem. I opened the second and found Toshiba had used Hot glue on the second PC and it held the plug in place. The original machine with the problem had a piece of yellow tape across the male.female junction to hold the plug in. It did not.

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 01:41:48 +0000

In reply to HARISH. @ HARISH, When you get a solid white image, it means the screen is not getting data signal from the motherboard. It's either bad display cable, LCD screen or motherboard. If you tested the LCD screen and cable with another laptop and it worked, it means you have a problem with the motherboard. Probably something is wrong with the video connector. If that's the case, you'll have to replace the motherboard or use the laptop as is with the external monitor. I don't know how to fix this problem on the component level.

By: HARISH

HARISH — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 01:26:39 +0000

i have toshiba c655 laptop. My laptop is working fine when display cable removed and it’s working with an external monitor. But my lap display is also working on another laptop. When i connect the display video cable it’s showing me white blank screen. Please help me how to solve this issue in my laptop…..

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:27:52 +0000

In reply to Luis. @ Luis,

I have the same problem than here but with the Satelite A200-25c that stopped showing video on the LCD screen. Any suggestion will be recognized.

First of all, test the laptop with an external monitor. Plug the external monitor cable into the VGA port on the laptop and turn on the laptop. It should recognize the external monitor and show the image. Does your laptop work with the external monitor?

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:01:28 +0000

Hello,
I have the same problem than here but with the Satelite A200-25c that stopped showing video on the LCD screen. Any suggestion will be recognized.

Thanks in advance

By: Juan David

Juan David — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:35:56 +0000

Thank you, this work for me.

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:37:12 +0000

The screen on my son’s Toshiba turned white and I was totally freaking out. Did not want to take it in, since the warranty expired, and I did not want to buy him a new one just to play games. Found your website, followed your instructions and it is now working perfectly! Thanks for your help!!!

By: Kevin Still

Kevin Still — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:31:16 +0000

I completely unplugged mine and replugged it back in and it worked! Thank you!

By: Cole

Cole — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:54:10 +0000

i have the same problem i have replaced bulb, screen, inverter, cable and still no luck, SOMETIMES during rebooting the external monitior will work, do you think i have a bad mobo or what else should i replace first.