Satellite M45 refuses to boot at all

Greetings! My Satellite M45 seems to be quite sick! It all started a while ago as the battery slowly died, and eventually, the laptop would refuse to go to the BIOS on the battery's power.
I ordered a new battery (which I am still waiting for) and continued to use the laptop on external power, but every now and then, it would refuse to boot on external power.
On pressing the power button, the "TOSHIBA on touch with tomorrow" screen comes up - albeit with a problem - then hangs (with the fan on). The problem (other than hanging) is that the screen is "displaced" to the left. Instead of filling the whole screen, the boot screen "ignores" the rightmost 2 inches and the bottom half inch, and is displayed in the remainder of the screen. Its a bit hard to explain...
This morning, its refusing to boot at all!
Any ideas? I've tried reseating the ram, powering on without battery, only on battery, I have removed all "extras", and am at quite a loss now!
I can't get to the bios menu either - so its highly frustrating!
Any help would be great!
Michele

I feel your pain. Saturday morning I awoke, came into my home office, sat down and pushed the on switch and the light around the switch came on, then 3 seconds later went off. Nothing!
I tried again and again, with battery, without, with power cord without. I called tech support, they had me repeat everything I had already done. My M45-S269 is now sitting across town at the authorized repair facility. Where it will presumably be repaired for only $95.00 per hour labor, plus parts. I imagine I'll loose the 1200 songs I have in iTunes and the several hundred photos from the past year. Best of luck to you.

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11 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x0000374a start + 5642
12 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f241aa -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] + 250
13 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f51d2a -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKeyPath:] + 474
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x953a3cd4 -[NSBinder _valueForKeyPath:ofObject:mode:raisesForNotApplicableKeys:] + 876
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x953a38dc -[NSBinder valueForBinding:resolveMarkersToPlaceholders:] + 192
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x956e07bb -[NSObjectDetailBinder refreshDetailContent] + 96
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x953a2e77 -[NSBinder _performConnectionEstablishedRefresh] + 79
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x9539b0e8 -[NSObject(NSKeyValueBindingCreation) bind:toObject:withKeyPath:options:] + 744
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x953d771e -[NSNibBindingConnector establishConnection] + 166
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x951aeaa4 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1211
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a4e12 loadNib + 264
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a4774 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 946
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a43b7 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 171
24 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a42f5 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 391
25 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a3fa4 NSApplicationMain + 434
26 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x000028d1 start + 1937
27 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x00002242 start + 258
28 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x00002169 start + 41
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x901e8506 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9021a84f pthread_condwait + 1244
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9021c0d3 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 47
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f46e8c -[NSCondition waitUntilDate:] + 236
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f46ca0 -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:beforeDate:] + 144
5 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f46c05 -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:] + 69
6 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x0002720d devtech_private::ZString::ZString(char const*, unsigned long, devtech::EncodingInfo const*) + 339
7 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x0001d215 devtech::ZString::GetCString(char*, unsigned long, bool, devtech::EncodingInfo*) const + 2485
8 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x00025738 devtech::ZString::GetCString(char*, unsigned long, bool, devtech::EncodingInfo*) const + 36568
9 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f00f1d -[NSThread main] + 45
10 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f00ac4 _NSThread__main_ + 308
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x902196f5 pthreadstart + 321
12 libSystem.B.dylib 0x902195b2 thread_start + 34
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x902dd43f ecx: 0xbffff39c edx: 0x90256b9e
edi: 0x00115500 esi: 0xa0025578 ebp: 0xbffff3b8 esp: 0xbffff39c
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000286 eip: 0x90256b9e cs: 0x00000007
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0xffe173cc
I suppose it would make sense that when items like com.apple.Foudation and com.apple.AppKit go wrong, the problems would spread system-wide.

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