Satellite A100: Black screen until windows starts

Hello everybody,
my screen shows nothing until windows XP starts. No toshiba start-screen, no boot menue. The rest runs problemfree, no errors. I would like to have the normal boot with: "press del to enter setup" etc.
Thanks for helping

Hi
Something like press del to enter setup will not appear because usually at the beginning only the Toshiba splash screen should appear.
If you want to enter the BIOS you have to press the F2. By pressing the DEL you will not enter the BIOS. Its a notebook and not a desktop PC, buddy ;)
What you can do is to disable the Quiet Boot in the BIOS. Then diagnostic enabled and summary screen is displayed.

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