mr henderson
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| posted on 26/11/09 at 09:08 AM |
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What's wrong with my Toshiba lap top
I have a much loved Toshiba laptop, its about 3 years old
Recently the screen would suddenly go blank at random times. When that happened I could se something by looking at the screen from a sharp angle, but
not enough to be able to control the computer. Cure is to switch the computer off and let it restart, The fault will then re-occur maybe 30minutes or
5 seconds later, it's got worse recently and I've had to retire it. It's a shame, though, because I've got some good stuff on
it.
Things is, when I plug in an external monitor that goes blank as well, when this happens, so I don't think it can be the backlight alone (though
I don't really know about this stuff)
Any help or ideas much appreciated
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McLannahan
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| posted on 26/11/09 at 09:14 AM |
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It's not the backlight - that'd only affect the built in screen. If it only affected the built in screen I'd blame the ribbon cable
that joins the lid to the body - it often fails with age. but...The monitor output as well....
I'd have to blame the internal video card failing. It's not a servicable part really - unless you have serious soldering skills and parts
to hand.
If it's happening after a time it can often be heat. A damn good clean with a can of air may blow out the dust and dirt?
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britishtrident
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| posted on 26/11/09 at 09:16 AM |
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You will find dozens of different cures for this on the web the two easy things you could try are using a vacumm to clean the ventilation slot and
taking the memory out and re-seating it.
If that doesn't work my money is on a motherboard fault although it could be a defective memory module.
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imp paul
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| posted on 26/11/09 at 09:20 AM |
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or if its like some gpus it mite be suffering heat so you could take the heat sink off and put some new paste on it and try again just a thort  it
sorts xbox360 some times
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Project7
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| posted on 26/11/09 at 09:32 AM |
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Easiest things first, have you got the latest video drivers installed?
I've had the exact same problem with a Dell Laptop of about the same vintage and the latest drivers solved it.
[Edited on 26/11/09 by Project7]
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blakep82
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| posted on 26/11/09 at 11:45 AM |
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my mums IBM laptop did the same thing after about 6 years. never tried it plugged into an external monitor though.
friend had a old screen for this paticular laptop which fixed it when swapped. only thing is it now doesn't have bluetooth, but it never
actually worked anyway lol
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Charlie_Zetec
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| posted on 26/11/09 at 01:31 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mr henderson
It's got worse recently and I've had to retire it. It's a shame, though, because I've got some good stuff on it.
Years of collecting your "special time" material when in school/college/uni, I take it?!
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!
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mr henderson
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| posted on 26/11/09 at 05:00 PM |
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quote:
Years of collecting your "special time" material when in school/college/uni, I take it?!
Nobody had computers when I was in education, I think there might still have been a couple at Bletchley, though.
Thanks for the tips, everybody.
[Edited on 26/11/09 by mr henderson]
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