Re: Satellite P300-161-Lock-ups/freeze randomly

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• Satellite P300 - 161 freeze randomly.

  Hi all

  I have some problem with my Satellite P300-161.
  He is running on MS Vista and I get random freezing with the computer laptop everything.

  By freezing, I hear every application that runs past to the mode "not responding" and it freezes for about 10 seconds, then after 10 seconds or so everything will return to normal. HOWEVER, sometimes in frozen mode, I can thaw the laptop while hitting / drawing the space next to the touchpad... I know it's bad, but it's the best way to solve this problem.

  Is there anyone who knows why it freezes like that? Internal hardware problem? This component is under the area as I type?

  Oh I should add also that when he is in frozen mode, there is this very very slight hum from the laptop, that noise disappears as soon as the laptop stops freezing.

  Thanks in advance.

  PS. I uninstalled the operating system more twice if the OS is not the problem as I know.

  Why create the son second on the same topic?
  I think that you should not create different threads and should follow your first discussion:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums//message.jspa?MessageID=159695

• Satellite P300-161 - graphic upgrade

  Hello. The graphics maintains not on my Toshiba Satellite P300-161 of the same after a clean reinstall of Windows. I'm looking to replace the graphics card from ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3470 (which is not soldered on the motherboard).

  Can I rather upgrade or get a new card?

  I'm asking this is because I had trouble finding exactly the same everywhere! Thanks in advance.

  GPU upgrade is not supported so either you exchange the card or you have to search entire motherboard.

• Satellite P300-161: alarm low and criticism not fire

  Hello.

  I just bought a Satellite P300-161 with Vista and every time alarm if there is only a pop-up notification at the low or critical level, you but no sound alarm. I checked the settings under "advanced power management" and "battery" and both have the value default to 'ON' for low and critical battery alarm.

  I also made sure there is a noise linked to these events under 'Hardware and sound', 'System sounds' and "low battery alarm" and a criticism.

  The default sounds are really sweet so I registered and chosen my sensors clean up but still no luck.

  I did a search on google and apparently several people had the same problem. In addition to suggest to both look like the above parameters, some have said that it is a general problem with Vista that will be fixed with service pack 1. I already service Pack1 so that does not solve it.

  The other thing that I found via google is that apparently Vista doesn't offer it through the message system, but makes it available for 3rd party software. It seems ridiculous that Toshiba withdrew its usefulness because of power management especially in Vista.

  I wouldn't mind an alarm from the BIOS, but looking at the settings, I couldn't find all the options. I can only note a pop up and if I play music or something, I have completely run out and the computer into hibernation which is really annoying.

  I would be grateful if anyone has any suggetions on how to solve the problem.

  Alfonso.

  Open the Volume mixer and make sure that Windows sound option is not set to mute.

• Satellite P10 - 792 lock ups / crashes and battery

  I used my P10 792 even since I bought it 3 years ago. S there was a decreasing battery box that appears on my screen (sometimes) say I should replace the badly inserted battery and restart my computer. If there is also a problem mouse touch pad. He touchpad doesn't respond well to orders while he was trying to move the pointer.

  The battery alarm message usually comes with the dysfunction of the touchpad. I have to press ESC to restore the touchpad back to normality and close the application of process Btrychkr.exe under the menu CTRL + ALT + DELETE to make the gibbous Moon box to disappear.

  But the main and most recently problem are blockages, especially when running programs that require a video grand advanced such as 3D games and DVDs. The screen freezes for several seconds, and then he comes back to life. This is sometimes followed by a sudden stop down.

  Finally, when I try to turn it on, it doesn't even get to loading windows before it stops again, and so on. So I have to wait several minutes before pushing on the button again. Now, we have reached a critical situation where the computer won t last more than 10 minutes before its shutdown automatically without notice. There is no error message so I don't see what is the cause of the problem. (Battery? Overheating?)

  It is also important to note that one of my friends with a series of P10 also had these same problems and finally had to buy a new one because the laptop has been just the hand. I fear me comes with the same situation of m.

  How can I solve this problem?
  I would really appreciate the help.
  Thank you

  Hello

  You you use laptop for 3 years. You replace the battery during this 3 years?
  Isn't it? I think it would be a good idea to replace the battery.
  Usually after about 500 times of loading and unloading procedures the performance of the battery goes down and the life time decreases

  Additional during those 3 years, the laptop needs to be cleaned. Fans suck dirt and dust and sometimes cooling modules cannot turn with maximum performance and can not cool the CPU and other devices.
  Of course, the overheating could be a reason for your shutdown problems

  Looks like you haven t much experience so I think someone with more experience (technician) is recommended to clean the notebooks cooling modules

• Satellite P300-161 - trouble with new battery

  I just bought a new battery online for laptop above.

  When I place the battery in the laptop, the orange charge light turns on, and the battery seems to charge.

  However, after a few minutes the charging light starts flashing and stays flashing. So, I can not say if and when the battery is fully charged.

  When I remove the charger and turn on the laptop, it lights up ok, but the battery icon shows 'time remaining unknown' and gray. The LED flashes orange.

  When I sent to society the answer has been:
  

  As a new battery for the first time three, you should charge complete 12hrs. Discharge, 3% rest and then recharge.

  Remember the first three fresh times, stop your laptop >

  When I loaded for 12 hours, the laptop will not light.

  The following response was:

  If the battery still does not work? Would pls take photos of the battery that was sent by us and your origin to us?

  Just to see the model of barcode (white label) \part number\fit. >

  Someone at - it ideas? My impression was that the battery is defective.

  Purchased Toshiba logo on the label original battery?

  In any case, send it back and ask for replacement.

• S50D-a satellite freezes randomly

  Hi all

  S50D-A, a week ago, I bought a Satellite.

  The machine freezes randomly. This happens about 6 - 8 times during a working day.

  When it freezes the cursor still moves but I can not even access Task Manager. Usually it will restart after a few minutes, sometimes it will jump out of it.

  The PC temporarily froze all by writing this!

  This is a brand new machine and it happened since the day 1, nor the hour 1 even.

  I hope you guys and girls can help.

  Bassosa

  Hello

  On this virtual path, it is not easy to say why this is happening. All we has own configuration software and favorite of the BONE, and we don't know how looks like the configuration of your operating system.
  Maybe did you install additional software that is running in the background?

  Try disabling the Windows automatic update and set it to manual control. Laptop is new and maybe a lot of downloads running in the background. Processor and HARD drive can be highlighted and the result is the gel.

  Play with these settings and try to find out why this happen.

• Satellite Pro R850-15F - freezing randomly and the fan speeds up

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro R850-15F who gave me four years in refurbished condition and so it is quite old.
  I have recently installed Windows 10 and things seemed to work very well.

  However, last week, I noticed that at least once a day my laptop freezes randomly and immediately the internal fan accelerates, becomes much stronger and a cold air. Whenever this happens, I turned off the laptop and turn it back on it.

  After that, it works normally again until the next time it freezes. I don't know anything about computer hardware, but I suspect that it is a problem of series and I wanted to get some advice in case my laptop is close to dying.

  If anyone has any help or advice or suggestions to solve the problem, then I would be extremely grateful if you would contact me.

  Hope to hear from someone soon,

  Flashback

  On this virtual path, it is not easy to say what the problem is here. To me, it looks like problem with some background process that as a result of extremely high CPU usage that locks the phone whole.
  High CPU usage means more heat in such situation the fan starts to run a lot faster.

  Have you noticed this behavior with a specific action or the use of certain applications?

• Satellite P300 - freeze on Boot after POST

  Hi all

  I have a problem with my Satellite P300, my pc freeze (freeze) after the detection of devices.
  You can see a screenshot here: * http://uploads.siteduzero.com/files/253001_254000/253465.jpg *.

  I turned off of the battery during the night: nothing
  I connect the two G1 under memory for 30 min: nothing
  No matter what I do, it crashes at the same place.
  I tried to change the memory and the HARD drive, I'm sure they are OK

  How can I make a clear CMOS on Satellite P300 please?

  Can someone help me please?

  Thank you very much

  (I'm French: p)

  Hello AJAX,.

  > How can I make a clear CMOS on Satellite P300 please?
  This is not possible, mate.

  You can access the BIOS Setup when you press the F2 key?

  If this isn't the case I think that you already have what you can try and it seems to be a serious malfunction of equipment. So I contact nearest authorized maintainer and ask for help. ;)

• Satellite P300 freezing after more than 20 minutes

  Hello

  I hope someone can help.
  My satellite P300 laptop freezes when left for more than 20 minutes.
  This has been a problem since the purchase of the laptop 8 months ago.

  I have windows vista installed.

  When this happens I've pressed the button until the computer restarts, it gives me the option to start in safe mode.
  This can't be good for the laptop?
  Is there a way to solve this problem, as I turn the laptop off when ever I leave.

  See you soon

  Hello

  It's not easy to say what is the reason for this as it can be different things

  Maybe your laptop is overheating. You can hear the fan or get very hot? Maybe you should try to clean using compressed air stream. This could blow out the dust from the cooling fans.

  You said that you have installed Windows Vista on your laptop. Do you mean the factory settings or you have installed your own version of Windows?

  It could also be the RAM problem. You can check this with Memtest86. It is a diagnostic program for the RAM. You can download it from [www.memtest86.com]. It s freeware and easy to use (just to burn a bootable CD with the image and the start of it).

  Good luck and post your results after that.

• Re: Integrated webcam Satellite P300 does not: locked by another application

  Hello

  The webcam integrated on my Satellite P300-h-13 no longer works. When I try to use it I get the following message: locked by another application. The only program on my computer that uses a webcam is MSN Messenger, Skype Yes or as some programs are not the problem.

  I saw some other threads on this subject, but those ppl had another laptop. And because I don't know that much about computers that I wasn't sure if I had to do the same steps to make repair.

  Could someone help me please?

  Thanks in advance!

  Hello

  This issue is known to me because I also had, and it was solved by installing Vista SP1!

  You can resolve this follow these steps:

  Download driver Chicony Webcam drivers from Toshiba Web site section was updated. If you can't find an updated driver, try a new driver of another model of Toshiba.

  Install Service Pack 1 for Vista, or Vista Hotfix KB934374: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934374 (KB934374 is included in SP1) or the full SP1

  Update your e-mail software (MSN/Yahoo Messenger, etc...)

  If you have another program that can use the webcam (e.g. Skype), make sure that they are completely closed and not, sitting in the system tray.

  Try closing the bar Assistant camera on the left side of the office.

  To stop the Camera Assistant software from running at startup, run Regedit and delete HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Camera Assistant Software".

  Good bye

• Satellite A660-18 freezes randomly

  My Satellite A660-18 freezes randomly especially when I play games or watch video.
  Also sometimes when I'm just passing the mouse. He is 1-2 times a week/2 weeks. When it happens the screen freezes but the audio on for a while and does not react to any keypress so I have to manually turn it works.

  I don't think it's a graphics card overheating issue, as happens sometimes in just a few minutes after I turn on my laptop and I use a cooler pad as well.

  Hello

  This sometimes happens, it means that you can't reproduce it, which means that it s really hard to tell what could cause this.
  Theoretically, it could be just a software problem. Perhaps only the registry is damaged.
  In this case, the new OS installation must be carried out.

  Of course it could be also related to memory: to test the RAM by using some tools such as mem86 + or similar.
  Also, make sure the HARD drive; for this, you can use the tool called Drive Fitness Test.

  Welcome them

• Re: Satellite P300-156: keyboard freezes touch touchpad - mic is not w

  Hello

  I installed Windows 8 on my satellite P300-156 and now I have a big problem.
  My keyboard crashes when you touch the touch pad. In addition, the microphone does not work when the Windows Device Manager indicates that it is ok.

  There is no windows driver for this laptop 8...

  There are no drivers for the laptop because it isn't win 8 supported series.
  But even if there is no Win 8 drivers, the system should not freeze affecting the touchpad module.

  However, the Synaptics touchpad driver for Win 7 or 8 to win can be downloaded from Synaptics page.
  Recommend check it out!

• Satellite P300 - randomly turns off the power when connected to the external monitor

  Hello

  I have a Satellite P300, Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 2.53 GHz, 4 GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 512 MB, running Windows 7 ultimate x 64.

  Recently, I bought an AOC v22 led screen and connect my conputer via HDMI. Everything works fine, but sometimes my computer off just randomly. I might have something to do with my computer overheating, so I clean the fan, but this was not good.

  I think it has something to do with the LED screen because my computer was never off his own.

  Hello

  So this also happens if you n t connect laptop to external display? So, you can determine what is causing this problem.

  If the computer laptop doesn t turn off without external monitor, you should try to update the BIOS and the display driver. Two updates that you can find on the Toshiba site:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com-online decision-making supported Downloads & => Download drivers

  You close the lid if you have connected the external monitor?
  What operating system do you use?

  In addition, it would be interesting to know how you clean the laptop. That's why I use the jet of compressed air that can blow the dust from the cooling fans and you don't have to disassemble the laptop.

  Good bye

• Satellite P300 - freeze Touchpad with AC adapter

  My English is not very good.

  Can I use the touchpad of my Satellite P300 with battery only. With the AC adapter, I have a gel, and score is not possible

  Hey,.

  Have you tried to update the driver for the touchpad? You can download all the up-to-date drivers/tools on the Toshiba page:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com-online decision-making supported Downloads & => Download drivers

  Using the original from Toshiba AC adapter or another?