Equium A60: random screen blackouts

Hey guys & girls,

I recently bought a P4 A60 satellite at Christmas and since then I ve had a small number of growing problems and I was wondering if anyone knows the same thing?

It only worsened recently when windows XP home wouldn t start so I had to use Norton ghost to transfer my work off the laptop computer via a network of my home machine.

After inspecting the safe mode boot log, the computer seems to keep the gel and then restart on an ati.sys driver, but before that I ve had a lot of problems with my screen so I m wondering if it can in fact be hardware related?

symptoms: random screen blackouts (having to close the lid and reopen it to do to turn around).
Unexpected windows failure when loading the ATI drivers to the windows startup.
When I went to use the Toshiba Recovery DVD the screen turns off and he won t come back.

Help, please

Tom

[Edited by: admin August 6 05 08:12]

Hello Tom

On this path, it is not easy to say why all this is happening, but after the recovery procedure, everything should be ok again. If there is no success after the recovery procedure you should contact the Service partner. The device has a valid warranty and all costs will be covered.

I guess the recovery procedure is known to you. Honestly I n t understood exactly what you hear with the screen turning off the coast guard and he won t come back. Can you explain to me exactly what happens if you want to retrieve the unit?

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