Help. I have a Toshiba Satelitte laptop running Windows 10. It is basically paralized and is my primary PC. Lately it had been having g a calvacade of problems. Some apps can't be opened. At the end of daylight savings time the PC clock changed, but the taskscheduler contiued to work on DST. The cursor on screen disappears randomly for about a minute each time. In some apps mouse clicks and or key presses don't respond. The screen resolution changed and can't be set back too 1336 X 768.
I ran a system restore point. It seemed to have been successfully completed. But it failed to have any effect on the problems. Windows Defender has never reported finding a virus. I also ran an adware app and a registry repair app as a precaution. Both worked normally, The registry errors were corrected. Recently I turned on this PC one morning and found it was not able to start Windows 10. It did perform the usual startup of the Toshiba startup app. And it did take and accept the Toshiba password. It showed no sign of loading the W10 boot up files. Too me this seem to clear the RAM cache memory cards. This PC has two memory cards as I understand it if one card fails, PC's c an still work with the second card. It does seem that it could be yhe CPU causing the problem if it could execute the Toshiba start up portion of the boot up process.
I concluded that the problem would most likely cauased by failure of the hard drive. I then ran the Microsoft "Media Creation Tool". It takes 4 hours, and afterwards it reported that it had encountered a unspecified problem. It had not suceeded in changing or deleting the any files. Upon rebooting the PC performed a "Check Media" test and reported " [Fail] No bootable device--Please restart the system". Next I installed a freshly erased and reformated hard drive known to be good. After another 4 hrs of running thr Media Creation tool the PC remained unusable.
That caused me to think that the BIOSs had changed to boot up too the wrong drive. I resrarted the PC while pressing F2. The Toshiba portion of the start up proogam worked as normal. After re-entering it's password, the BIOS screen appeared. That seemed to be correctly set up to boot up. And more mysteriously the BIOS had the correct name and number of the drive listed in it. The PC must hav e sucessfully conected to the hard drive to get that infor mation about it. To be safe I restored the BIOS to the default seetings, then saved and exited the BIOS. Again that had no effect.
As a last resort I connected the original har drive to another PC.I used the file explorer to determine if it still had any files on it. I found the folders on it entitled "Progam file" "Users" "Windows". The Windows folder had many many sub folders and files. The other two folders were empty. I have run out of ideas as too what is wrong. Any suggestions? Tnx
I ran a system restore point. It seemed to have been successfully completed. But it failed to have any effect on the problems. Windows Defender has never reported finding a virus. I also ran an adware app and a registry repair app as a precaution. Both worked normally, The registry errors were corrected. Recently I turned on this PC one morning and found it was not able to start Windows 10. It did perform the usual startup of the Toshiba startup app. And it did take and accept the Toshiba password. It showed no sign of loading the W10 boot up files. Too me this seem to clear the RAM cache memory cards. This PC has two memory cards as I understand it if one card fails, PC's c an still work with the second card. It does seem that it could be yhe CPU causing the problem if it could execute the Toshiba start up portion of the boot up process.
I concluded that the problem would most likely cauased by failure of the hard drive. I then ran the Microsoft "Media Creation Tool". It takes 4 hours, and afterwards it reported that it had encountered a unspecified problem. It had not suceeded in changing or deleting the any files. Upon rebooting the PC performed a "Check Media" test and reported " [Fail] No bootable device--Please restart the system". Next I installed a freshly erased and reformated hard drive known to be good. After another 4 hrs of running thr Media Creation tool the PC remained unusable.
That caused me to think that the BIOSs had changed to boot up too the wrong drive. I resrarted the PC while pressing F2. The Toshiba portion of the start up proogam worked as normal. After re-entering it's password, the BIOS screen appeared. That seemed to be correctly set up to boot up. And more mysteriously the BIOS had the correct name and number of the drive listed in it. The PC must hav e sucessfully conected to the hard drive to get that infor mation about it. To be safe I restored the BIOS to the default seetings, then saved and exited the BIOS. Again that had no effect.
As a last resort I connected the original har drive to another PC.I used the file explorer to determine if it still had any files on it. I found the folders on it entitled "Progam file" "Users" "Windows". The Windows folder had many many sub folders and files. The other two folders were empty. I have run out of ideas as too what is wrong. Any suggestions? Tnx