Comment on Pentium 4 Laptop cannot get past "Mouse initialized"
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 21 hours agoIt’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
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?