Here I have a Toshiba laptop which I'm attempting to repair for a co-worker.
It is a Satellite Pro C650 from around 2010 or 2011.
It has an Intel Core 2 Duo T6670 processor at 2.2 GHz, 3GB of DDR3 RAM,
a 250 GB hard drive, Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics, 802.11n wireless, and a 6-cell battery.
It has a non-glossy finish which Toshiba called Trax, which resists fingerprints.
So that's a nice feature, although it does have some scratches in the top.
Around the side here is a Kensington lock slot, a cooling vent, a VGA port without the screws,
USB port, Ethernet, another USB port, microphone and headphone jacks.
There is no volume control wheel on this model, so by this time Toshiba finally got rid of that feature.
On the front is an SDHC card slot.
On this side is the DVD burner drive, and the power jack.
And on the back is just the battery.
On the bottom, it has the access doors for the RAM and the hard drive,
and there's the battery.
It has a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit product key on it.
And this is kinda interesting. It has a warning that it may contain a nickel cadmium,
nickel metal hydride, or lithium ion battery.
But it was well over a decade before this was made that Toshiba stopped using NiCad batteries in their laptops,
because I had a Satellite Pro 410 CS from 1997, and it already had a nickel metal hydride battery.
So I don't know why they still mention NiCad on the warning label.
I got it with the original Toshiba power supply and it does work
although some of the shielding is coming loose from the cable so I'll try to at least wrap some electrical tape around that.
It has a 15.6 inch (1366 x 768) glossy LCD, and a very flat keyboard with a numeric keypad,
as well as a touchpad.
The touchpad has a little bit of wear on it, but the keyboard looks almost completely unused.
And I don't know why these stickers are all crooked like this. I don't know what happened to those,
although the Intel sticker looks like it's in the correct spot.
GoatHerderEd: Why are all these stickers on here? They don't mean anything. I don't care!
I don't want to know if this has "Energy Star."
What the f*** -- it's a laptop, it doesn't use any power! "Energy Star?"
You can get Energy Star approval on...
...Like a gas-powered air filter... if you really wanted to...It's stupid.
VWestlife: It also has a very small webcam and microphone at the top of the display.
The problem this computer has will be immedialtely apparent once I turn it on.
I do know the password-- the owner told me it, so I'll type that in.
And this is all it says.
So my three guesses are either:
something happened to the Windows installation that could be possibly repaired
using the recovery feature of the Windows installation disc (1),
or something more serious happened and I'll need to reinstall Windows (2),
or it's also possible that the hard drive is dead entirely, in which case I'll need to replace it
and reinstall Windows on a new hard drive (3).
I put in my Windows 7 installation disc, and it is detecting partitions on the drive,
including a "RECOVERY" partition.
So I'm going to try the Startup Repair option here.
OK it says, "Restart your computer to complete the repairs."
OK, this is progress. Let's see if it can start up in Safe Mode at least.
I guess not. We saw that "Blue Screen Of Death" there.
And after it rebooted, it gave me an option for Startup Repair,
and when I did that, it gave me this.
So I'm going to try to look up what that error means.
This is a Toshiba screen, so this may be the recovery partition showing this.
I looked up that error, and on Toshiba's website they say this error is usually the result
of the computer being infected with a virus, such as malware or a Trojan.
So I'll see what I can do about that.
If I try to start it normally, it will attempt to start Windows...
But as soon as it gets past the logo here, it just shows the "Blue Screen Of Death" and then restarts.
I tried starting it from the recovery partition by holding down the "0" key when starting it up,
but as soon as it got past the Windows logo, it just restarted,
and then it gave me that same message that it can't find any bootable drives.
So it seems like what Toshiba describes on their website is what happened to this computer.
Unfortunately I did not get those recovery disks with the computer.
So I'll probably just have to do a standard reinstallation of Windows
and then download and install all the drivers manually from Toshiba's website.
Well, no matter what I tried to recover the existing installation of Windows,
I kept getting the "Blue Screen Of Death" during startup.
So I just reformatted the drive and I'm reinstalling Windows.
So sometimes things get so badly screwed up that this is the only solution.
I got Windows 7 Home Premium reinstalled.
It's showing a Windows Experience Index of "3.1".
It managed to automatically install all the drivers except for the Ethernet,
which isn't really a big deal because the wireless is working and that's what's probably going to be used
pretty much all the time on this computer anyway instead of the Ethernet.
And it's doing its many updates now to catch up to the current status,
so that's going to take quite a while.
MUSIC: "Energy Spent" by Liam Finn
GoatHerderEd: Windows 7 sucks.