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Stone Dead

  • 13-09-2006 8:30pm
    #1
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,663 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    I hope this is in the right place, feel free to move it if it's not.

    My mother's friend has had a Toshiba laptop for almost 4 years. Recently it seems to have stopped working completely, not a whimper out of it, you try to turn it on nothing happens, battery, mains, battery out with mains nothing works.

    My mother rang tech support today and they pretty much said it would be uneconomical to repair it, 580 for a "new system board", plus labour and VAT, even then you only get a 3 months warranty with that.

    Is it knackered? Any suggestions as to what might be going on? It is left unused for most of the summer as the person who owns it goes away on holidays and doesn't need it during that time. We had a problem with it before, think it was something like it being stuck in hibernate mode, taking the battery out and putting it back in didn't seem to work this time around though...

    Anything I can try to see if it can be brought back to life?

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  • #2
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    €50 says its the RAM in the machine....check for a little compartment on the under side of the laptop,open it using a philips head screw driver and remove the stick of ram and try turning on the machine then....


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Did you notice any warning signs that it was about it go? I would give replacing the RAM a shot as mentioned, or just try reseating it to start with and see if there is any difference.


  • #4
    The Black Oil
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    Hadn't thought of the RAM, no joy there though and I don't have any other laptop RAM to put into it to test it out.

    I don't know if there were any warning signs - the owner isn't very computer literate so if I asked her what state it was in when she returned from her holidays she wouldn't remember.

    Is there some button for resetting, a little tiny thing somewhere not the main one? Doesn't look good to be honest.

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  • #5
    frodo_dcu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭frodo_dcu


    The Black Oil wrote:
    I don't know if there were any warning signs - the owner isn't very computer literate so if I asked her what state it was in when she returned from her holidays she wouldn't remember.

    :D:):D:):D lol lol lol
    The Black Oil wrote:
    Is there some button for resetting, a little tiny thing somewhere not the main one? Doesn't look good to be honest.

    no nothing that easy, sorry no sugestions thought .. is covered on the house insureance mite at least get some money for it if its dead


  • #6
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    The Black Oil wrote:
    Hadn't thought of the RAM, no joy there though and I don't have any other laptop RAM to put into it to test it out.

    I don't know if there were any warning signs - the owner isn't very computer literate so if I asked her what state it was in when she returned from her holidays she wouldn't remember.

    Is there some button for resetting, a little tiny thing somewhere not the main one? Doesn't look good to be honest.

    No reset afaik. Before you do anything else, find where the RAM modules are located (will probably tell you in your manual), take them out and put them back in and see if there is any difference.


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