A couple of problems

Terry · 2011-01-14 23:07:38

First off, Toshiba Satellite L300. It keeps freezing. A friend dropped it in to me, but I know very little about laptops. Took a quick look, decided that the quickest option was to do a reinstall. That went through fine. I left it doing updates overnight, went to pick it up the next morning and noticed sparks coming from…

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Terry

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First off, Toshiba Satellite L300.
It keeps freezing.

A friend dropped it in to me, but I know very little about laptops.

Took a quick look, decided that the quickest option was to do a reinstall.
That went through fine.
I left it doing updates overnight, went to pick it up the next morning and noticed sparks coming from the power adapter.
Turns out that a chair leg had caused the damage. She neglected to inform me of this potential fire hazard.

Anyway, I tried to use it without it being plugged in, but it still freezes.
Am I right in saying that it's completely borked, or did the surges just mess up the HDD?

I ran a system check, but that froze too. Everything freezes on it.

Second one is simple.
Toshiba Equium U400. The screen was stood on.
Anyone know of a shop with cheap replacement screens?

I've googled and sent a couple of e-mails over the past few days, but didn't get any replies.

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