The laptop came with Vista Home Premium, but I hate it, so I tried to remove it and install good old XP, but when I pressed F12 for the boot menu and selected CD, then pressed a key to continue it doesn't seem to recognize the disk inside or something does not let me install a new OS.
What...
I've recently installed windows 7 on my toshiba notebook and here's the problem :
I start it it appears as my display driver is not installed, it doesn't recognize my keyboard and my touch pad , only my usb mouse .
I restart it , and everything is ok .
I restart it again and the same problem ...
We have the Toshiba Satellite A300 and lately the screen light flickers and goes out but you can faintly see the LCD behind...Then we put it on sleep mode, goes back on the flickers off. What could we do to fix it ourselves or where is a store we can take it to that can fix it?
I've just found out that Toshiba is doing a cashback deal on this and money back warranty as well. I can't find much reviews or images on the model on the net. Does anyone own this? What is it like? They're doing £100 cashback at the moment and the spec's really good...