Toshiba lives

Happily my Toshiba now seems to live.  After getting the HP working reasonably again I did a bit of research on the problem.  Great thing about the Internet is that it's full of suggestions.  Now, admittedly many are not so sensible but one mentioned really powering down by taking the battery out.  Duh!  This is something I know, really I do.  So I pulled the batter and left the machine sit for a bit so the electronics would good and truly reset.  Put it back in.  Powered up and bingo got a sensible Windows restart screen.  I'm not sure what happened but all seems well now.