Hi Guys,

As long as I have worked in IT (2 Years) absolutley everywhere I go there's a massive stack of Toshiba's with serious hardware failure (Normally Motherboard). I dug a Satellite Pro A30 out of our 20 strong pile of some terrifiyingly young laptops. I got hold of this A30 (Pentium 4 2.8, 512, 40GB) which was labelled as having a "Power Fault". I love my Toshibas and have the latest Libretto as my main laptop, but a spare won't hurt. Anyway, this machine to my suprise when I plugged it in ETC fired into life and booted XP like there was no tommorow. I loaded server 2003 on it and I used it to test ISA server 2006.

3 Weeks later, I go to turn it on and the power light comes on, and the fans fire up but the screen stays blank. It then Immediatley switches off, only to come on about 5 seconds later. The only way to stop this cycle is to remove the battery. Given that it worked fine for weeks (I Even watched The simpsons on it in the garden) I am not taking this as a major fault that can't be fixed without a new motherboard. Has anyone had similar experience, seen anything like this before

Any help is greatly appreciated:thumbup:

I to have a A30, piece of crap. overheats when on charge and in use, bought a cooler but it's worse as the fans run in opposing directions, It's OK to use on battery or power alone but not whilst charging battey. A royal PITA.

I to have a A30, piece of crap. overheats when on charge and in use, bought a cooler but it's worse as the fans run in opposing directions, It's OK to use on battery or power alone but not whilst charging battey. A royal PITA.

You might be able to cut down on the overheating by vaccuming the fans, we got alot of crap out of the fleet of 10 we have. Really **** Poor laptop I agree, Be useful as a spare still

We used to use Tosh's but the reliability went south a few years ago. The older Satellite Pros like the 400 series and 4000s are well built and the few we have are still going strong. Our problems started with the 6100 series - most of which have been scrapped with identical power problems. We can get them fixed for about

I agree, I have an original Libretto 110CT and it still works flawlessly, even though its nearly 8 years old. It maybe a lowly Pentium 233MMX (remember those) she has now upgraded to 64MB ram and a 20GB HD, and runs XP Pro just fine. I take it with a wireless pcmcia card when I fly somewhere, really handy due to size and plays MP3's just fine through winamp

On the other hand we had some later toshibas at work, and I think they have all now broken with some failure or other. We switched to Samsung, but seem to be getting problems with these now as well, mostly screen failures.

We used to use Tosh's but the reliability went south a few years ago. The older Satellite Pros like the 400 series and 4000s are well built and the few we have are still going strong. Our problems started with the 6100 series - most of which have been scrapped with identical power problems. We can get them fixed for about £40 but they usually go again within 6 months.

We changed to IBM T series just over two years ago and they're great. Well built' date=' common disk images and very few problems. The warranty service is good too.[/quote']

We have loads of 6100's as well, Do you notice that the screens on all of them start going "Blank" all the time after about 5 years and you have to smack them around a bit to get it to work?

If it's not been charged while it's been sat idle, it could be the backup battery. You should put it on the charger for a few hours switched off, then switch it on (don't expect it to boot at this point). Leave it for a few more hours, and then cycle the power and see if it boots. The CMOS battery is charged from the main battery or some such cascade scheme hence the two charge cycles.

When I first read about this I didn't believe it, but it worked on my Tecra8100 like a dream, and I've done it several more times since, after a long lay off.

I have a Tosh Tecra S1 as a second laptop and apart from the battery it still works fine, but i agree that the Sat pro 6000 upwards are pretty flakely...

We have loads of 6100's as well, Do you notice that the screens on all of them start going "Blank" all the time after about 5 years and you have to smack them around a bit to get it to work?

Aye - seen that a couple of times. Most of ours are around 4 years old. They're horribly slow for the spec and the Tosh Bluetooth and Wifi software is a joke.

After my earlier gushings about IBM I've got to admit they aint all bulletproof tho - we've got about 200 X31s, of which at least 40 have been sent back with lovely rainbow stripes up the screen. God bless the 3 year warranty.

Got a Tosh Satellite S1800 14.1" LCD screen lying around? :(

After my earlier gushings about IBM I've got to admit they aint all bulletproof tho - we've got about 200 X31s, of which at least 40 have been sent back with lovely rainbow stripes up the screen. God bless the 3 year warranty.

Interestingly my T21 was pretty reliable and only needed one repair (hard disk died) in the 3 years I had it. In the 2 years I've had it, my T42p has already got through a system boards, 2 fans, a network card, the wireless doesn't work and the keys on the keyboard like to pop off, especially the arrow keys. Luckily for me, it's a company laptop!

Chris

Power board failure.

It's always happened on Tosh's. :thumbdwn:

I have a Tosh Satellite Pro A10 and its been faultless for 3 years.