Satellite A500-148 - overheating performing intensive tasks

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• Satellite A500-148 turns on but does not start

  Hi all, I have a Satellite A500-148 from a friend who asked me to take a peek, it turns on, but does boot when I press the following power button occurs:
  -The power button and the charger are on and the hdd led only flashes once
  -The fan comes on for about 3 seconds
  -No image on the screen, I indicated a light against it, but there is really no image

  Tried to reset by pressing the button for 30 seconds without the changer is plugged.

  I disassembled it and noticed that this laptop has an external video card, so my question is, who's broken the video card or the motherboard.

  Thank you

  To be honest I don't understand this with an external video card. Can you describe how you mean exactly?
  In any case, on this virtual path, it is not easy to offer the exact diagnosis. You can try the little test and remove this external adapter, RAM and HARD disk, and try to start again.

  Ask your friend if he had something that may be responsible for this.

  One last thing: laptop stays in r might have turned off after a certain time?

• Satellite A500-148 not listed under assistance produces

  Hello

  I'm looking for software updates (bios update specifically) for my Toshiba Satellite A500-128, but it is not listed under product support.
  How can I find for this model?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  I found the Toshiba Satellite A500-148 using google.
  The full model number seems to be: * PSAM3E-02M00DEP *.
  I gogoled and found on the Toshiba page Portugal looks like a brand new model of laptop and so there is not a lot of details about it but I think that it of just a matter of time and you will find info mode

  Hope I could help you...

• Need new motherboard for the A500-148 pomp

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A500-148 and the motherboard just died. How can I get a new motherboard?

  And what would be compatible mother for this laptop?

  Thank you

  You can get the motherboard on two tracks. Either order you by the Toshiba authorised service provider or you need to find an independent electronic store where you can order.

  Both ways can be a bit complicated. If you order by Toshiba, you must give them old mainboard and to find another place is probably not so easy.

  Is that your laptop PSAM3E part number if you need motherboard for this model.

  You want to exchange it only?

• Satellite A500-1GL - graphic card problem and overheating

  TOSHIBA SATELLITE A500-1GL - I almost year.
  Already, the first problem appeared immediately after the purchase.
  After a telephone conversation with the service and install some problem driver disappeared but unfortunately it was another, computer laptop start overheating especially on games but evan on movies more make strange noise.
  I ve already used about 7 different cooling pads but none of them helped, I change the fan settings, cleaning by compressed air did not help at all.

  Is there a way I can fix this?

  Should I send it to Toshiba as it is still under warranty?

  Can you please tell us what is the first problem?
  To be honest, you should let Toshiba service to check this and give you 100% of mobile working.

  What you want to do? If the same symptoms are there even if laptop with factory settings, I think it is certainly the issue of guarantee.

• My Satellite A500 is extremely slow

  Hi guys,.

  First of all my apologies if I'm not in the right sub-forum here.

  For about two weeks, my laptop (Satellite A500) is e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y s-l-o-w. Very often (not always) I get an error message after commissioning (which takes about 15 minutes) on a "JIT debugger" and click ok if you want to cancel the request or Cancel if I want to debug.

  What does all this mean? Where did it come from?

  More information:
  (-) I have not installed any new programs or anything for at least 6 months now.
  (-) Recently, it takes about 15 minutes for the laptop at the start and another 15 minutes to log on to the net (via a usb wireless modem)
  (-) I have one run a virus check (just in case ;)) and nothing was found.)
  (-) I did a "gentle formula" that I found preinstalled on the computer. Apparently, this type of format gets rid of all your mistakes without having to reinstall all your programs. This 'soft' formula has not improved the performance.
  (-) I brought up in the Task Manager to see which application causes the problem of JIT-debugger, but Task Manager area is empty. Nothing of what is running in there.

  Could someone plllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaas sssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee informed me what could happen and how I could possibly fix this problem? Your knowledge and your help would be greatly appreciated!

  Good luck everybody!

  I don't know if this will help. It should be.

  I have an A660.

  First... NEVER use your laptop on a cushion, OVERHEATING. Use a USB fan tray to sit if he walks home user...
  Once I had my motherboard replaced.

  Why did they portable who need vents inspired air from under warm days?

  TOSHIBA (have a 'free' another idea)
  WHY NOT HAVE AIR DRAWN in THE TOP OF the PC AND GO to THROUGH A VERY SMALL REFRIGERATOR AS IN A DESKTOP GRAPHICS CARD COOLING UNIT to cool the chips?

  Regarding the PROBLEM REAL being separated for a hardware issue...

  Mine did the same (ran only run stutteringly slow s...l...w.freezes trouble... a lot of time and frustration (battery in and out) caused 3 hard disks lost (shaken baby syndrome).) Lost thousands of precious family memories and important documents.

  So... instead...

  (1) download MALWAREBYTES free version (from a trusted as Cnet site or web page of MW).

  (2) install and run.

  (3) allow to find Trojan horses that slow down your laptop (mine was 300 [and I have Norton 360 installed 2013]). Automatic adjustment.

  (4) re - start normally. Try Windows again. May or may not still be issues. Qoy TO BE SURE a certain...

  (5) start in Safe Mode (pull on the plug and the battery if you are unsure how to do this).

  (6) run Malwarebytes. Get rid of all the Trojans.

  (7) re-boot... It MAY take five or six minutes to start.

  (8) If you have Norton Antivirus or McAfee run it to check that it is nothing... you CAN get a message saying there is a conflict between her and MALWAREBYTES... He told me to uninstall Malwarebytes. So, I did. BUUUUUUUUUUT, on restart computer has had a black screen... (I couldn't even at BIOS)...

  FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES, HE PLAYED DEATH. ]

  Normally I would give 'going bonkers' a little... but I expected as well... and waited and waited... and waited...

  (9) repeat PC programs. It should be much better.

  (10) re-boot... IT CAN TAKE FIVE MINUTES... don't worry... next time it should be good if you had the same questions that this laptop had too many times.

  P. S.
  ALWAYS check if you download Flash ADOBE or a MS C++ Update update, or an update module of any site, make sure that you click Yes to anything... BUT instead, GO to the REAL SITE for these programs.
  NOTE:
  Some questionable sites, to PRETEND TO DO AN updated VERSION OF YOUR plug-in, such as ADOBE FLASH or Adobe Reader or something else... but they have a PREFIX of the name of download with ADOBE in there (or [common] update no matter what he tells you everything)... and then you secretly have a Trojan horse that will unpack a few weeks later and multiplies... and does what it is designed to do.

  Foam in Africa tend to find the details of your credit card.

  Post edited by: rogerthat1945

• Satellite A500-1E4 (PSAR9E) - noisy fan stops is never (BIOS version 1.60)

  Hello from the Czech Republic, I have also problem with noisy fan on my new Satellite A500-1E4 (PSAR9E) (i430M, GT330M) on 64-bit Windows 7 over Office Standard - see http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=46719&start=165&tstart=0.

  Today I have updated the bios to 1.60 (from 1.20) and there has been no change. When the laptop powered to the top of the adapter in all modes the fan is running at 60-70% (sometimes at 90% - my office is perhaps quieter :-(). What laptop power battery in normal fashion fan and high performance race to 60-70% (loud sound) and in the economy mode to 80% (very noisy). It's crazy that in economic mode produce more noise than mode high performance. The CPU temperature is cca. 37-43 C, GPU 48-57. Fans of course never stops and all it's standart office. No intensive work or games. I can't imagine in games.

  Can someone help me please, I'm really helpless. Or this fixes only bios 1.30 and next version not?

  Hey Buddy,

  I think that it of really difficult to say why this happens, but in my opinion you should provide more details about your operating system and drivers.
  Are you running the Toshiba factory settings or you have installed another OS?
  Fan sometimes high activity is due to a different display driver. Have you installed the latest display driver form Toshiba (NOT nvidia)?

  Old BIOS versions, you can get an authorized service provider

• Satellite A500-19W - suddenly restarts during games

  Hello guys,.

  I recently got a new Satellite A500-19W, but just playing games, it restarts all of a sudden.
  No idea what could be causing this and how to solve it.

  Thank you

  Hi Malek_1,

  This happened to me also on Satellite A300. The reason is because my laptop was overheating and so I decided to clean using compressed air stream. It's pretty easy because that's why it s not necessary to disassemble the laptop and it blows the dust from the cooling fans.
  Check this box!

  In addition, in Windows power management, you can choose between different methods of cooling. I use the maximum performance mode.

• Satellite A500 - slower with videos on Windows 7

  Hi, I desperately need advice, I am 78 years old and going into the wall.

  My Satellite A500 / 03P was bought with preinstalled Vista and worked fine. My particular interest is the functioning and the creation of video clips from training for other seniors, like video purchased has worked, stutter free. I took the offer to upgrade to Windows 7 and bought the upgrade, things went quickly downhill since. Installing Windows 7 became crazy during the installation, I have to take the computer to a maintenance shop. He was returned with Windows 7 installed, but has been considerably slower with videos run from the hard drive stuttering, worse still, my connection Internet ADSL2 running about 1.25 m bits per second.

  After a while I got to service man and $ 200 later was provided with a dual boot hard drive, Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7. The system is practically unusable for video. I downloaded and installed all the 32 and 64-bit drivers provided by Toshiba but had to give up the 64-bit completely as unusable. I tried to install another copy of Vista Ultimate, bought for my old desktop PC, but could not get Internet to work, either directly or via the WIFI on the laptop.

  I tried to run the Toshiba on the 32-bit Windows 7, but the laptop is too slow, that even my email creeps to e-mail readere. Any advice would be most appreciated that my pension will not bear the costs of local peoples. Should I buy the Toshiba original disks and return to 'ex factory Vistor State' or what.

  Concerning
  LeslieB

  Hi Leslie,.

  I m really wondering why your A500 has so many problems with Windows 7. From my own experience I can say it s really great and better than Vista OS. I use 1.5 years now and everything is working a lot on it.

  In any case, did you check if all devices are properly installed in Device Manager and if there is no yellow exclamation?
  When you watch videos, have you selected the power profile high performance in Windows?

  > Should I buy the Toshiba original disks and return to 'ex factory Vistor State' or what.
  That would be an option, Yes.
  You don t have the Toshiba Recovery disk? If this isn't the case, you can get it from a provider of service authorized in your country.

• Can I switch to i5 or i7 Core 2 Duo on the Satellite A500-PSAM3A

  Hey there.

  I wondered if I would be able to change the cpu on my computer of my 2.10 Ghz Intel core 2 duo processor i5 or i7 and wanted to know if I could, because I heard all that stuff about requiring a special chipset or a new card mother for something like that.

  Oh Yes... my laptop model is Toshiba Satellite A500-PSAM3A-04000E

  So as I said, I would appreciate an answer as soon as possible.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Have a look here:
  + Is it possible to upgrade the CPU or GPU of a Toshiba laptop? +
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB9401AX0001R01.htm

  _Why an Exchange must / can not be done: _

  No significant performance will be won (-> price vs performance comparison)

  It is unclear if the new processor is compatible to the system board. Integrated chipsets can take charge of their technical specifications a wide range of processors, but this does not mean that all types of CPU can be used in a mobile system, since integrated cooling systems are designed individually for each set of model in order to ensure the optimal operation of the machine. An incorrect CPU can cause the system to overheat and damage the internal system components.

  In most cases, the BIOS does not work with the replaced CPU which causes a malfunction of the machine. The BIOS needs to be rewritten after each Exchange of a CPU that can only be done by an authorized Toshiba service partner.

  The immediate revocation of the warranty will apply if the part of the core component have been modified by the customer. This also applies when the machine was not disassembled by a certified Toshiba technician.

• Satellite A500 Pro keeps freezing

  Help...

  I have a Satellite A500. It keeps freezing.

  Sometimes it will boot when turned on, but then as soon as I select a program to open, it freezes.
  I can't do anything. I can't control alt delete to open the Task Manager. The only thing I can do is to turn off the power.
  So when I turn it back on, it asks me to start in safe mode, I say yes, but the same thing happens.

  Sometimes it starts and you can go in outlook and check a few emails and I think it works fine, then it stops and says not responding do not. Then I go to Explorer and the same thing happens.
  I have try the Task Manager, but it will not come to the top.

  So I have to stop again. It's very frustrating.
  I have installed Norton and nothing comes to say there's a virus problem.
  I have no error message, it stops just to work.

  Help, please!

  The same happens when you start in safe mode? Test it please. Play around a bit with a few options or applications.

  Since when did you notice this behavior?
  On this virtual path, it is not easy to say why this is happening. It will be interesting to know how your work laptop with factory so if possible to save all your data and install the new OS by using the original installation disc of recovery.

• After BIOS update Intel speed step does not not on Satellite A500

  I upgraded my Satellite A500 PSAM3E model to the most recent BIOS 1.50, now the Intel speed step does not!

  My CPU is always 2 GHz +, I have chagned power Plan to balanced, but no change... with precedent the CPU was about 800 MHz.
  When I try to change the Windows 7 power management and set the maximum CPU at 50 or 80% performance, the system hangs.

  Hey Szaby59,

  What older BIOS version were you using before update to 1.50?

  I also use maximum CPU performance option for ecomode (50%), but it does not work properly.

  In addition, it would be interesting to know if use you your own Windows installation or factory settings. Normally, after using the Toshiba Recovery disk you don t have install Toshiba tools more. Everything is preinstalled on your laptop.

• Difference between the Satellite A500-025 and A500-02F

  Satellite A500-02F costs about 10 percent more Satellite A500-025.

  Satellite A500-02F is much better and worth the extra money or that they are basically the same. Satellite A500-02F has a chip T6066 from the T6065 in the Satellite A500-025 much difference?

  Satellite A500-02F DDR3 memory, it will make much difference? All the other differences?

  Thank you.

  Hi junglo,

  I think that you have answered the question yourself. Satellite A500-02F has a faster CPU and DDR3 memory. It should be a little faster in programs of they need a high-performance CPU and in games for example.

  It s also according to the programs you want to use, but I would choose the faster model. I n buy t each year a new laptop then I would choose the fastest and 10% difference isn t so. ;)

• Re: Audio crackles on Satellite A500 (PSAR3A - 01 K 002)

  Bought a new Satellite A500 last year and have had many problems, here's a quick run down:

  1 will play not with Win7 64-bit, compatible blue screens pointing to the graphics card driver. Tried every update in the Sun, nothing helps, also tried a full system restore with no luck... finally gave up and moved for Win 7 32 bit and stability seems reasonable.

  2. audio crackles with 64 and 32 bit versions of win 7, once again have tried every update under the Sun, including BIOS and full system restore with no luck. Audio is really shocking and it is worth noting that it is not just the speakers, when I use a headset (and joking around, I had plugged a top of the range $300 pair) it still crackles like nothing else.

  3. fell hardware WIFI switch...! ??? Also note that this laptop was not the biggest of any ill treatment and hase has spent most of it is time sitting on a desk at home and not be mobile (which incidentally is therefore what laptops are designed for should be able to handle)

  4. Webcam not centered, he did on my right shoulder looking into no. mans land making it quite impossible to use and type at the same time.

  Where I am now... Well I took it to Portacom (west Perth) under warranty that I do not advise anyone to do as disassembled for replacement of the webcam, they were pretty useless, and they were pretty rude about it too.

  They said they tested the audio with intensively music with headphones too and can't find anything wrong with that, but yet it still crackles away murdering all my favorite music.

  They said that the WIFI hardware switch was caused by abuse, but there is no sign of violence.

  They do not have check the blue screen with windows 64-bit issue because I had long since given up that at this time.

  I was always a fan of Toshi and that's why I insisted we do a when I upgraded, but it seems he build quality has suffered a little since I finally bought a. I don't think I'll go to another ever again, this machine is wound very badly and has a huge impression cheap on this subject. Even more if you need any technical support, warranty or not, don't bother with Portacom. As I said they are rude and not much help at all really.

  Hey, man

  You are right, the A500 series have problems and the most annoying is audio crackles. I bought my round 4 monts ago and hoped that Toshiba should fix bugs of cracking, but it is still exists. I tried all Bios upgrade, reinstalling the driver, registry settings, but still no solution. As I see it, Toshiba is not care we or am I wrong? They have placed the same driver display simply by changing date you output. As for me, I don't often listen to music on my knees, using a portable mp3 player which fortunately not crackling.
  But anyway, I love this model. He has a good design, assemblage of powerful and high quality. I hope they fix some bugs in the future

  LEADING INNOVATION MUST BE FREE FROM CRACKLING

  Welcome them

• Satellite A500-17 x restart automatically if I play Warhammer

  Hello
  I just bought a Satellite A500-17 x a few days ago. There is a very big prblem with laptop is.

  When I play the game Warhammer Online, the laptop will automatically resart every time. Little time is 10 minutes, sometimes is 20minuts. First time I thought is a
  problem of temperature but the laptop isn't too hot anyway. I have try to disable the restart to see there is no information, unluckly the laoptop always restart automatically when I play the game.

  Can help me Fig that out?

  Hello

  This only happens if you play Warhammer Online or in other games too? Have you noticed this problem only on Windows?

  At the moment it is not easy to say why this happens, but you need to update the display driver. Check the Toshiba site for an update:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads > download drivers

  It is important that you use a display of a 3rd party site driver because only Toshiba drivers have overheating protection.

  In addition, it would be interesting to know what operating system you are running. Is it preinstalled OS from Toshiba or another?