Toshiba A105 turns on, screen stays black

[Dreams2reality]

Ok hopefully someone here can help quickly! I got a Toshiba A105 from my mom's friend who wanted me to check if it had a wireless card and then figure out why she had no internet, simple enough so I said sure. Anyway, turned the laptop on with any issues, no wireless detected so turned off and removed keyboard to look for the card. Long story short went to turn laptop back on and got power but a completely black screen. Tried unplugging and holding power button, tried re-seating memory but nothing. Kind of freaking out as this is supposed to be fixed by tomorrow. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[selldoor]

Re: Toshiba A105 turns on, screen stays black

When you have removed the keyboard have you displaced the lead to the screen.
Can you test with an external monitor.

[Dreams2reality]

Re: Toshiba A105 turns on, screen stays black

Tested with external monitor and got a no sync error message, tried again holding FN and F5 keys still no sync message. I know the external monitor works since I just used it with another laptop.

Update: Works on external monitor so but not on laptop still, so wtf? The laptop worked just a few hours ago, about to lose my mind...lol

[selldoor]

Re: Toshiba A105 turns on, screen stays black

Not looking good can only suggest unplugging and reseating the panel connector
shown in Step 15 in here http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptop...herboard-2.htm.

If it is not a separate graphics card it looks like a motherboard fault. Check you havent dropped any screws inside.

[heavymachines]

Re: Toshiba A105 turns on, screen stays black

when you removed the keyboard strip where the video panel connection is, may have unwittingly scraped or dislodged the cable check for damage and unplug it and reseat it carefully without bending those tiny pins.....