Toshiba Satellite 200 Series, User Manual

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If Something Goes Wrong
Fixing Device Related Problems
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The Display
Here are some typical display problems and their solutions:
The display is blank.
Display Auto Off may have gone into effect. Press any key to acti-
vate the screen.
You may have activated the instant security feature by pressing
Fn + F1
. Enter your password if you have registered one, or press
Enter
to return to work.
The display doesn’t look right.
See “Changing the Display Mode” on page 257 to adjust your
screen resolution or color settings.
The built-in screen flickers.
Some flickering is a normal result of the way the screen produces
colors. To reduce the amount of flickering, try using fewer colors.
Windows 95 displays a message that there is a problem with your
display settings and that the adapter type is incorrect or the cur-
rent settings don’t work with your hardware.
Reduce the size of the color palette to one that is supported by the
computer’s internal display. See “Changing the Display Mode” on
page 257 for instructions.
The Disk Drives
Problems with the hard disk or with a diskette drive usually show
up as an inability to access the disk or as sector errors. Sometimes
a disk problem may cause one or more files to appear to have gar-
bage in them. Typical disk problems are:
You are having trouble accessing a disk, or one or more files
appear to be missing.
Make sure you’re identifying the drive by its correct name
(A or C).