Comment on Pentium 4 Laptop cannot get past "Mouse initialized"
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
What kind of laptop? The old Sony viao or whatever they were called, were full of stupid proprietary stuff. If something fails it’s would all fail.
Does the keyboard have a pause button? Sometimes pressing it a couple times would continue if it’s an IRQ problem. Do you know if it’s a ps/2 or serial based mouse? Sometimes if the ps/2 is fried, the motherboard is toast. It’s really easy to fry that port. Unplugging a device with the system was powered on, risked killing it
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It’s a Toshiba A30
When I hold pause, it shows me a blue rectangle and reboots, then fails to boot as always. Hitting repeatedly has the same effect.
Idk what type the “mouse” is, touchpad has a 4 pin ribbon connector
I can reach somewhere like this when I hold both printsc and pause
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do you get a POST beep?
if the pause button crashes the system, thats not a good sign. basically its haulting the CPU and if the CPU is unstable and the system cannot “pause” in that BIOS system, not a good sign.
are you able to open and save the BIOS? resetting to factory defaults doesn’t work? try turning off any auto setting. does it have a diagnostics?