Outage map mother Toshiba P10 - 504

I recently had a major problem with my Toshiba P10-504. I have no idea how it is happened, but according to the Toshiba people who are setting the motherboard has failed. This meant that when trying to turn it on all I got was the blue light and noise from the fan and eventually the HD spinning round and not display at all. The cost of fixing, it was quoted at around £450 and it will take a couple of weeks. As you can imagine I have never wanted to meet this problem again and would really like to understand how it happened. Any information would be great. To help here's a list of everything I did and didn t before it crushed that may be useful:

Before the crash
(1) installed a new module of memory: 1 GB DDR333 SODIM (brand pqi?) - I have installed the module a week before that the system failed and it was working fine. I m worried of course re - install the module when the laptop is returned (tips?).

One the day of the accident
(1) set processor scheduling to basic services to increase performance of audio software
(2) turned all power and all patterns always found hibernation modes these boring
(3) set the swap file for virtual memory to about 1.2 GB just to experiment with different performance settings, although this was probably a bit excessive.
(4) after the three things above do I simply close the lid, no request was running and the system had not yet been arrested and was running on batteries. That s the last time it worked.

The laptop had not known physical damage.

Thanks for reading through it all - I hope that m make sense. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Chris.

Hi Chris

Looking at the list of things you've done I don't see anything that could damage the computer.
Installation of equipment (memories, PC cards and so on) is always a 'risk', but as long as you keep the standards and use your head instead of force, you should be pretty safe.
Since the memory was running in your machine for a week, it seems very unlikely that it can be the cause of the problem.
My long experience with the mobile equipment service tells me that I have but a very few cases have seen software damaging hardware. It is possible in theory, but in real life - this is the last possibility on my list anyway.
Stuff in the breeze computer most of the time for no reason visilible - means that he does not want to break because of misuse, improper handling or bad software. He breaks everything.
Looking at the number of "parts" 1 computer have inside (besides just motherboard, memory, hard disk and so on but counting of connectors, transistors in the large chips, welds on big and so chips suite) I (my personal point of view) feel sometimes that it is lucky that they do not break.

So to answer your question: just take care of your computer normally, stick to hardware options that are made for your computer (prefer original Toshiba) and you did your part of the deal :)

BR

Tom

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