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Hi
I have tried several hard drives in my Satellite Pro 480CDT but none of them will boot. The screen stays black and the power led flashes orange (long, short, short, short, short, long, short, short). If I take the drive out the machine goes to the 'In Touch With Tomorrow, TOSHIBA' screen. It will see Windows CDROM or a floppy. I have tried with 6 HDDs all below 6Gb and as far as I know working. I have tried with another 480CDT a 220CS and a 2140CDS. Surely all HDDs and laptops have the same fault? Do I need to update BIOS or something as none of the drives are original to the machines.
Please help!
Thanks
John.

Hi John
I am afraid there is nothing you can do alone. When power supply electronic detects some power problem it sends hexadecimal code. In this case you must contact technicians. They can read this code and will know what is wrong there.
Just for info: I have found out that original HDD for this unit has part number P000244000. Maybe it will help you to obtain some other HDD for tests.
Sorry I can not tell you more about this oldie.

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