Toshiba Laptop - blue screen

Green_box

Appologies if this has been covered before.

Over the past few days my Toshiba L300-19Y has been encountering problems. Initially this was just slow startup, but this soon worsened to windows (Vista) not loading.

I have tried loading in safe mode, tried going back to last working point (it claimed not to have one) and have tried to reinstall windows from factory settings. All to no avail.

Now the laptop won't load windows at all, it just ends in ablue screen (reference to 0x00008086). I googled this and the concensus seemed to be boot from from the recovery disc. This starts off ok as the laptop seems to be reading the disc, but after a while it just stops doing anything.

Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? it is approx 4 years old, so I don't want to spend too much money on it. It has generally been a good laptop although we did have to replace the hard drive a couple of years ago.

Any chance it is time for a new hard drive again?

closed

logged off already

does it boot from the disc?

tried factory restore partition? (hold 0 at boot possibly)

What else is on the blue screen, letters not numbers

NiftyDigits

Green_box wrote: »

Appologies if this has been covered before.

Over the past few days my Toshiba L300-19Y has been encountering problems. Initially this was just slow startup, but this soon worsened to windows (Vista) not loading.

I have tried loading in safe mode, tried going back to last working point (it claimed not to have one) and have tried to reinstall windows from factory settings. All to no avail.

Now the laptop won't load windows at all, it just ends in ablue screen (reference to 0x00008086). I googled this and the concensus seemed to be boot from from the recovery disc. This starts off ok as the laptop seems to be reading the disc, but after a while it just stops doing anything.

Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? it is approx 4 years old, so I don't want to spend too much money on it. It has generally been a good laptop although we did have to replace the hard drive a couple of years ago.

Any chance it is time for a new hard drive again?

Even if you need a new HDD, it will only cost £50. You can fit it yourself. Definitely worth it, as it still has a decent spec.

Nevertheless, we should still investigate, as it might not be a problem with hardware.