![]() ![]() It’s easy to get to the HDD on the L505D. If you’re looking for something inexpensive, there are many great refurbished laptops out there that can be had for less than a brand new one, and as far as data transfer goes, all you need is a SATA-to-USB adapter to plug your L505D’s HDD into your replacement laptop. Regardless, it is an older laptop, so I’d look into replacing it. If you don’t have one, I wouldn’t bother. It’s important to note that a preheater, in my experience, helps the results to last much more than otherwise. But I’d only pursue this if you or someone you know has good experience with soldering. I’ve saved at least one, if not two or more L505Ds following this reflow procedure with great results. Long answer: From what I’ve seen with these, the Toshiba L505D is affected by the good old lead-free solder failure issue that Xbox 360s and many computers have. I find that common on the L505D, unfortunately. Anyways, not sure what else to do, I’ve seen on here about the SHIFT+F8 combination on boot, I’ll try that, and perhaps other methods, but anything anyone can help with is greatly appreciated. Its been about a week since the last successful boot, and I have clientele work that I need to wrap up on there. I’ve even removed the drive to see if that was the issue, even plugging the drive into a different machine (which reads the drive with no problem), and again nothing seems to work. I’ve tried re-seating the RAM sticks, switching their positions, cleaning them out, still no boot. I’ve tried powering it up with just the battery, or with the charger only and no battery, and still no dice. Now, neither of these methods seem to work. Usually it will work after a few times of turning it off and on again, or if I press the F2 button repeatedly when booting up. The fan and drive appear to be on, but they spin at a much lower speed, so all they emit is a very low tone noise, enough to indicate they’re on. ![]() The yellow light may blink in split-second intervals when the hard drive is in use, while prolonged blinking means that the. Also on boot, there is a distinct high speed fan and drive spinning sound that doesn’t happen when this issue occurs. A blinking yellow light indicates hard drive activity on some computers. I for sure know that it’s not a display issue, because I’ve tried using an external monitor, and that didn’t help. ensure there is disk activity (look at the hard disk LED light to confirm. I can hear the fan spinning, and the drive as well, but the display doesn’t turn on. Trying to do a clean install of windows and during the Getting files ready. I tried to install suggested updates for the Network and Chipset on the support site, locally and in safe mode - Say they install but not to the most current. No problems booting from power button or shutdown. Also the NUM-lock button and the CAPS-lock button flash, but don’t stay on. It hangs with a blinking hard drive led that requires pressing the power button to complete on any restart. When I press the power button, the indicator lights for power, battery, and charge are a steady green, however the hard drive light doesn’t even blink. Earlier this year, it started experiencing trouble booting up. The machine works great, and it’s my main workhorse. I have a Toshiba Satellite L505D, that I’ve owned for almost six years now. ![]()
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