toshiba satellite laptop screen problems

My friend has a win xp home, 1.2 mhz, 30 gig hd, 240 ram several yr old toshiba. Would boot up fine and run ok and then the screen would slowly fade out after an hour or so until it is just very dimly lit. Someone told me to hook up an ext monitor to see if that stays lit up fine. So I turned off and connected the ext. Booted up and it went to a blue screen saying I would have to go to safe mode to deal with some hardware issues. Tried rebooting and going to safe mode several times, but each time it would then go to the blue screen warning again and not boot to safe mode. I disconnected the ext mon with the same results over and over. Even tried the line about booting to the last successful windows setting rather than going to safe mode. Always back to the blue screen. Any other way in or anything? Thank you.

"Problem detected and win shut down to prevent damage.
UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME
Stop: OXOOOOOOED (Ox8OED4988, OxcOOOOOO6, OxOOOOOOOO, OxOOOOOOOO)

 

Anyone have any ideas? thanks

 

Hi JAK,

My advice would be to take the laptop to Toshiba Services & Support.
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/ebtext.to?page=servicesAndSupport

I'm sure they will be better at diagnosing and/or repairing the display problem.



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