

If you have a AMI skin Toshiba, these still use the traditional POST messaging. Yes, I could easily score a unit with top end specs and fix it with an NVMe SSD and a 256GB scratch SSD, but I do not buy Toshiba/Dynabook new OR used out of principle.Ī lot of newer laptops - not just Toshiba have moved to the BIOS boot fallback, or run diagnostics automatically so it’s increasingly becoming expected behavior. At this point, many of these Toshiba laptops with these Toshiba laptops with original HDs are dying in droves with the same POST errors - mainly “no POST”, “No boot device”, or going to BIOS as they age, or it died for the original owner and was purchased used that way by someone who wants to repair it. When these laptops were new, many of them had an issue with the original HD within 1.5-2 years consistently. I’ve never tried their SSDs, but I wouldn’t touch them with a 100 foot Coronavirus ridden pole if the spinning hard drives are any indication of quality. The issue is Toshiba is known for having horribly unreliable mechanical hard drives.

