Recent content by Theoldfarter44

Shopped around to find the cheapest price of a genuine Toshiba battery, bought it, replaced it and am now up and running with the new internal battery. I will enable the "eco mode' for this battery so it lasts longer than the first one did, so the Toshiba documentation says.

Talk about getting things wrong. lol. The windows update had absolutely nothing to do with the problem. The Laptop started to do it's hibernate again and again. I fixed it finally by taking off the back cover and disconnecting the stuffed internal battery. It has been going fine for ages now...

Found the problem. The fact that my battery is in the same stuffed condition was a red herring. Using Macrium Reflect, I loaded on an image from 3 weeks ago and the Laptop did not fault. I had upgraded from Win 8.1 to Win 10 three weeks ago and then did a fresh install of Win 10. What I found to...

I just sent the original poster a PM asking him/her to come visit and post what they did to get it fixed.

This P50t has had previous problems. During it's first 6 months it had it's Motherboard replaced because of music stuttering on playback. Then it's HDD because of it reporting lots of errors and spinning all the time. When it was returned to me the second time, it had a white blob of about 15mm...

Guess What?? ... you are correct, I also have this problem. My P50t was bought 18 months ago, retailed here in New Zealand for NZ$2,300. A short time ago, I started to noticed the 0% available and charging, etc, message. I hardly ever use my Laptop off the mains power so was not to concerned...