Hi There All!
I don't mean to be rude . . Computer Engineer here! . .but this is ALL BUNK! . . the problem with the A200 is simple . . . Toshiba dropped the ball on the fan exhausting into your desk, or maybe even lap! . . "Have you burned your thighs on this puppy yet?" . . In canada there was a very "Quiet recall" by certain retailers that were getting sick of these overheating complaints . . .Toshiba in its lets go the "extra inch" model, graciously repaired/replaced the fans in the laptops of it most ferverent complainers, thus absolving themselves from admitting it was a ridiculous design . .and those suckered into buying this unit from glossy well-hyped advertising should have had the refund/or rplace option! . . So there you have it! . . .if you stuffed insulation in the cooling coils of your refrigerator or radiator in your car, how well would they operate? . . So sorry to see so many trusting people duped by yet another mulinational swindler! . . . ."Hello Lenovo!" . .really too bad, Toshiba for years, was THE name in notebooks!
Best of luck all . . . no ill will intended by any of my comments!
RJ
I don't mean to be rude . . Computer Engineer here! . .but this is ALL BUNK! . . the problem with the A200 is simple . . . Toshiba dropped the ball on the fan exhausting into your desk, or maybe even lap! . . "Have you burned your thighs on this puppy yet?" . . In canada there was a very "Quiet recall" by certain retailers that were getting sick of these overheating complaints . . .Toshiba in its lets go the "extra inch" model, graciously repaired/replaced the fans in the laptops of it most ferverent complainers, thus absolving themselves from admitting it was a ridiculous design . .and those suckered into buying this unit from glossy well-hyped advertising should have had the refund/or rplace option! . . So there you have it! . . .if you stuffed insulation in the cooling coils of your refrigerator or radiator in your car, how well would they operate? . . So sorry to see so many trusting people duped by yet another mulinational swindler! . . . ."Hello Lenovo!" . .really too bad, Toshiba for years, was THE name in notebooks!
Best of luck all . . . no ill will intended by any of my comments!
RJ
I have a Toshiba Satellite A200 for two years, since brand new out of the box, it just randomly switches off suddenly, no shut down procedure, no warning, doesn't matter if it has a full battery and is on power.
When I got it, was pre-loaded with windows vista basic and 512 mb mem, which was rubbish, because it kept crashing and was painfully slow, couldn't use it at all for some weeks until I could afford to upgrade it, I upgraded it to 2 x 1gb toshiba ram chips, and loaded vista premium.
Much better, used it much more often, no more crashes and slowness, except noticed occasionally it just popped off, like the power had been cut completely, didn't use it that often back then so didn't really notice it too much. Apparently laptop repair experts insist it is likely an overheating problem, or possibly a power supply problem, however there are some problems with this theory:
1. fault since brand new out of box
2.can switch on immediately after shut down (was told that should not be able to restart straight away if overheated)
3. random, can have fault for days while downloading, can play games for hours without problem, can start up, within a couple of minutes will shut off, sometimes will do it several times a day, other times it can go many days without problem, possibly a week, however can still just pop off after just cold-starting it, and when only being idle on desktop only for 10 minutes.
4. I opened it up (don't recommend this) to check for dust, and it was clean.
Problem does seem to be more frequent these days, however could be that I use it much more often, though haven't ruled out overheating entirely.
Now I am not sure, but it seems to only do it when both battery and mains are plugged in at the same time. Battery is usually full, and charges fine, I use the battery every few days till flat then use mains, battery is often full while using laptop on mains for long periods of time, I haven't noticed the fault with just battery, but then I don't use just battery often. Recently I left the battery out for a week, to see if the fault would happen, and it hasn't, put the battery back in now, been going few hours, not had fault yet. Has anyone else had any success with this?
Ran speedfan to monitor. Cores run around 45C - 47C, jumps occasionally to 48C - 53C for a second.
Right now I am under the impression it does it only when on mains and battery is in. (could be wrong though not tested theory enough).
If it's a power supply fault why doesn't the battery prevent it from turning off, battery backs it up when power's switched off or unplugged suddenly.
I am more inclined to think it's a problem with the motherboard, although I do suspect ram as well, and I still suspect a fan problem too.