Satellite A60 - overheating and decommissioning

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• Satellite C660 - overheating and decommissioning

  I have a computer laptop satellite C660 and in recent weeks it has been overheating and switching of. The fan and the heat sink is free of dirt and I bought and installed a new processor, but the problem persists. Actually the only way I can get the machine to run must go into the BIOS and run it in a slower mode which is unacceptable for a normal performance. I think I may have one problem material but another CPU change don't know what to try next.

  I can provide details if someone need help and I thank everyone in advance for any advice they are able to provide.
  Concerning

  David

  Hello
  do you have a thermal past when you installed the new processor?
  No idea on this model but have you check if any other component (for example the video gpu) add thermal paste on him?
  You use the laptop on a solid surface to allow the bottom of the laptop breathe properly for better cooling?
  I know some pretty stupid questions, but is just a double check.

  BR

  Alex

• My Satellite keeps overheating and turning off

  My laptop satellite keeps overheating and stopping when doing hard CPU work. The thing is if I open power management and keep the reset of the method of cooling performance max speed up the fan and it cools.

  It does not seem to adjust the speed of the fan if left only you I have to keep changing it and in a minute or two, it slows down again and then have to change once again at the speed of the fan to the top.

  No idea why this is happening and how to fix it? Grateful for any help. Thank you arran

  Hello

  In my opinion your laptop should be cleaned in professional way. I put t know why you n t mention which model of laptop you have, but I know that some models are not easy to clean because of construction and must be dismantled.

• Re: Satellite A60 - overheating problem

  Hello

  I have some difficulties to adjust temperature and fan on my Satellite A60.
  The operating system is Debian and the fan operates at temperatures of 60-65 degrees Celsius (without any process started after the login).
  I had installed utilities like toshutils, fancontrol, lm-sensors... but basically I have not found a solution for this:

  toshiba_acpi #modprobe
  Error: No such device

  Toshiba #modprobe
  Error: No such device

  Now, I ask you advice, please.
  If there are no alternative solutions, recompiling the kernel 2.6.24 (or other) is a solution to this problem? If the answer is 'Yes', how to prepare the package source?

  Now the system works, but not very well at that latitude this question isn't a good prelude to my summer job.

  Best regards

  HM,

  already checked the debian/gentoo/ubuntu forums? Or maybe freshmeat.net where toshutils all appear in their projects?

  Unfortunately I can't tell you why the modprobe won´t work but don't you compiled the kernel option ACPI from toshiba? It must be something that controls the trough of explicitly from functions ACPI kernel using the userlevel tools.

  By the way: have you read newspapers after trying the modprobe of the listed modules you´ve? Please make the modprobe more 'verbose', there may be something usable...

  Welcome them

• Satalite Pro A60 overheating and crashing

  My satalite Satalite A60 Pro keeps overheating and crashing. It says something about an ati driver.

  I downloaded a bios between bios-190trad of this Web site.
  I burned the iso to the disk, but I can't get the laptop to boot from the disk in the read me file that comes with the bios it says to press F12 to start the laptop. F12 doesn't do anything for me. How to boot from the CD I am using Windows XP Service pack 2.

  Hello

  First of all if you want to boot from the CD, you must change the boot order in the BIOS. To get into the BIOS, you can press ESC and then F1.
  Another possibility is the C key immediately after starting the laptop.

  If the laptop overheats so I guess the fans don't work properly. In this case, you should try to clean the fans. (use the vacuum cleaner)

• Satellite A60 crashes and restart the cycle - missing or damaged system32\DRIVERS\Ntfs

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A60, who has recently developed a serious problem and is currently blocked in a crash restart cycle. He started with the message "missing or damaged system32\DRIVERS\Ntfs", I've read about this problem on discussion forums, but am still unable to find a solution.

  Currently on start error messages appear indicating a driver is missing or damaged, the Toshiba start page has vertical lines of missing data and on a few occasions it will fully start after a short period of time vertical lines appear on the screen and it crashes.

  I tried a number of bugs:
  * Re installed windows XP pro (formatting the hard drive and renew the partitions)
  * Update the bios on the site of toshiba in version 1.90 (I think that the update also flashes the bios, but would need this confirmation?)
  Swapping the hard drive with a portable, yet no longer starts and HD works fine in another laptop, dismissing the possibility of missing or corrupt files.

  I realize that this could be a problem with the RAM and think that the laptop has 512 fixed to the motherboard, accessable without stripping down, but do not know how to determine if the RAM is the problem. While trying these fixes, I get problems with the start of the player and can only get the disk to launch and recognize the CD about 1 to 10 times.

  Could someone suggest a remedy or a fix I can try? or suggest how they fixed a similar problem. Thank you very much

  You ssounds not very good ;(description
  The hardware malfunction appears to be responsible for the vertical lines on the screen
  If vertical lines appear also an external display, the jury may be wrong.

  You re right, I Googled, and it seems that Sat A60 supports an internal memory.
  As far as I know, this memory cannot be removed and only an electronics could solve this internal memory.
  But are you sure that the internal memory is impaired. The device supports only 256 MB internal memory and other modules are removable
  If you can try to replace

• Satellite A300D - overheating and shutdown

  Hello

  I have a problem with my 3 month old Toshiba Satellite A300D-126. Any time I play a game like Call of Duty 4 or Warcraft after like 15-20 min, the left side of the laptop where the cooler is placed, it is overheating, almost too hot to the touch, and finally the laptop stops.

  I have to mention the fact that, recently, I installed XP (all the drivers downloaded from the Toshiba site), but I somewhat had the same problems on Vista also.

  I downloaded MobileMeter, and temperatures have shown here I think that they are not normal:
  Temp - HDD-35-36 degrees C and 80-85 C (when I m only not with the games, so I think that during the Games time. significantly increase)

  Is it possible that the cooler can deal with games, and it is dusty? If so, how do I to clean?

  Allows any kind of response,

  Thank you

  Hello

  I play call of Duty 4 on Satellite A300-1LI and so far everything is fine. Okay that's the different hardware platform, but I still believe that there should be no difference.

  I think CPU temperature is perhaps greater than usual but, in my opinion, not the critical level. The normal temperature of the hard drive and the same as on my Satellite A300.
  I don't know how you use your laptop, but it is the new model of laptop and I don't think that there is so much dust inside. If the laptop is placed on the desk, try putting back on two CD boxes and place it on the top position. Reduce graphics settings in the game and check again.

  Is the method of cooling energy savings of Toshiba to the maximum level?

• Satellite A60 antennas and wireless - LAN

  Hi all

  Please could someone tell me where I can get a map of wireless LAN mini pci for my A60?
  In addition, please could you tell me if the A60 built in antennas?

  Thank you very much
  Steve

  Hello

  As I know a few models A60 come with and without wireless network card. First of all, it will be interesting to know the detailed model description (A60 - xxx).

  Just FYI: I discovered that the Satellite A60-762 comes with the Atheros WLAN card.

  Good bye

• Satellite A60: Power and bios error

  Hello
  A few days ago, I wanted to update my bios, so I downloaded the windows for this installer. I opened the file and the progress bar moved for a few seconds, and then the laptop froze. I have it left alone for more than an hour and then I turned off the camera.

  I turned it back on, and it didn't go through the bios boot (update corrupted I think), I turned it back off.

  turned back on, but the power button does not work and the lights won't turn on either...

  so the problem is the following:
  (1) update corrupted bios
  (2) no lights whatsoever (no light battery, no power light, no nothing...)

  the plug itself works, but I couldn't check the adapter (I don't think it's broken because it does not overheat or anything like that). also, I took the battery and it endured, but it did not help...

  is that what I can do emse for Toshiba repair?

  can it still be fixed?

  It is a A60-122 and was purchased on October 30 last year.

  If you need more details, let me know.
  any help will be greatly appreciated!
  Thank you!

  Hello

  Try to remove the battery for a short time and try again.

  Download bios here->
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com. look at support & downloads, click on 'Download Bios' and choose your model.

  It is very important that you refer to the Description of the Toshiba BIOS update before you continue.

  Good bye

• Satellite Pro A30 overheating and decommissioning

  I found some comments dating back to March of people facing the A30 laptop random extinction. I am eperiencing the same thing.

  Thinking that it might be a virus I downloaded Norton AntiVirus which caused my laptop to blue screen. I had fixed by a professional and removed NAV. He continued to turn to then find another guy from support for PC...

  I worried overheating so he cleaned the fans. I was then able to run spyware without it if overwrite... everything seems fine (NB it is running on battery power at this point). However, this morning due to low battery, I plugged it to the adapter, the adapter, and the laptop has become extraordinarily hot and it stops!

  Someone at - he found no concrete solution to this problem yet? My laptop is only 18 months old and it has been for about 3 months. Aaaahhh!

  Hi Vicky,

  First of all, overheating of the CPU is the cause of power offs unexpected majoir where no error message or blue screens of death are displayed. There is always a very high rate of activity just before fan cooling break (unless the cooling fans do not have of course).

  If your second PC support guy has properly cleaned the CPU heatsink and fans, then we have to assume that the problem relates to low airflow through the fan grids.

  You stand your A30 on a hard flat surface? It is very easy to block the gates of fan cooling by standing the laptop on a soft surface (carpet, upholstered furniture, same pants/skirts etc.).

  Secondly, given that you had problems with Norton antivirus, you have any other software anti-virus/spyware running. If this isn't the case, it is possible that you picked up some malware that is causing excessive CPU activity which, of course, will produce much more heat from the CPU. Check your active processes in the Task Manager and also run an antispyware application appropriate (like AdAware or SpyBot) to ensure that your system is clean.

  Finally, it is quite normal that the adapter get indeed very hot when she is driving the notebook and charge the battery, especially if you are running heavy CPU or graphics applications. Similarly the battery warms up noticably while he is in charge.

  HTH

• Satellite A60 overheating - not possible to recover the operating system

  Hey there,

  I'm almost certain I have a hardware problem with my Toshiba A60. Explorer.exe has stopped running, doing system restore helped for a while, but he just kept happening again. System Restore loses all its points of restore, safe mode did not help at all. I managed to back up everything and went to the Toshiba Recovery CD.

  He managed to kill everything on my internal hard drive (or at least enough that it no longer starts), but effective recovery program only happens to about 12% then goes to a black screen, it's the same thing if I try to use expert mode on the recovery CD. Also, the laptop overheats a lot. I am so sure that it's a hardware problem.

  In any case, according to the website my warranty expired 08/2005. I just wanted to know if there is any way I can contact Toshiba? Most of the companies at least listen to you if they sold you a product that overheats and breaks (even if he does that the expiration of the warranty).

  Yet, it was the closest I could find on a "Contact us" page (other than the all-in-one phone number). Even if I can't get it fixed for free I wanted to know if there was any kind of paid service. Can I get any help? With the contacting Toshiba, I have not the strength to try something new with my laptop now that he can only boot from a CD and that done correctly.

  Thank you very much
  Andrew

  Hello

  I contacted Toshiba service partner in my country if I had a problem with my laptop. I think you should also ask the authorized assistance service provider. Don t contact one of Toshiba because most of the time, go to the point service.

  I found this link that will help you find the right provider in your country:
  http://www.CSD.Toshiba.com/cgi-bin/TAIS/Su/su_gaspLocator.jsp?PF=true

  But if you laptop overheating then you should check the cooling modules, if there is no dust or / and debris. Especially books of overheating because the cooling modules will not twist correctly and the air circulation is compromised.

• Satellite A60: Overheating during running game

  Hello

  My beginning of A60 to overheating since yesterday. I read on this forum that this problem can occur when the fan is not working properly. However, the fan never stops and today I worked all day with Excel, IE, Outlook and a financial and accounting application and despite the heating have been abnormal it stop only when I tried to run a game (Age of Empires) and when I tried to clean the disc.

  Is any possibility of problems with the RAM or the graphic representation.

  Thanks for any light on the night in Lisbon.
  Alex

  Hello

  Please check this announcement.
  This problem very similar s.
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=13188

• Satellite A60 - recovery and install xp problem

  I have a laptop A60 which is slightly more than 1 year.

  A couple of days, about 2 minutes after the start, the screen flashed with a new window (I was unable to see the content, it's appeared and disappeared so fast), then the laptop turned off.

  I rebooted, could not boot into winxp I received the error message (please report this problem as a load dll required) missing file. The missing files were all of the system folder.

  I then tried the recovery dvd. Everything looked fine, however, he kept failing at windows startup.

  Whenever I start the machine now, I get the toshiba logo, which now has lines of Red pixels in the columns towards the bottom of the screen. The same effect occurs when I try to recover using the recovery dvd.

  After trying this for some time, I tried to install my own copy of XP home. The laptop starts, attempts to load the files needed for the installation of winxp, gets to the core of the dll and stops with an error 4 impossible to continue.

  The recovery cd and winxp cd are in good working condition - validated it on other machines.

  Once, the winxp set up did go to the options page so I chose the repair console. I was able to run fixmbr and fixboot. It worked, then I could use the recovery dvd and successfully recovered it. About 2 minutes later, once he had everything installed, I got a blue screen of death and had to re-boot - to see that I was back to the initial situation.

  I then used fdisk to set up new partitions. ]

  Now, if I try the recovery cd, the laptop starts to load the ghost file and then the screen turns white after a while - the same thing with trying to install a new copy of xp.
  I still get the red on the screen pixels when I try the recovery cd and when I start the machine and get the toshiba logo. However, when I try to install xp from my drive, the red lines, points, appear not at all.

  My feeling is that I had a master seed virus and need a new hard drive.

  Can someone please advise me on this... What do you think that is the problem? If you think it's a virus master seed aswell, can you please tell me what you know how I can fix this or I have to buy a new hard drive. What a RAM problem or a problem with the hard drive controller?

  For now, I am going through several thoughts, but keep coming back to the boot virus master = new hard drive!

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Hi Paul,.

  In this case, my inclination is to suspect the RAM modules. This is based on the assumption that the screen initial 'splash' is not on the hard disk but is stored in the CMOS chip. The fact that your get the Red pixels when it appears would indicate a problem until the hard drive is still accessible.

  If you have restored your system using the recovery CD then the Master Boot Record will also have been restored (and is not infected).

  Of course, it is perfectly possible that your hard drive may also have problems that would explain the symptoms that you experience when you try to restore you system, but want to try simply to clean the dust from your CPU radiator (with a vacuum cleaner hose) before you try to restore again.

  The restore process causes a lot of heat to be generated, and you may well find that it is having a negative effect on your laptop.

  Kind regards

• Satellite A665 - overheating and speedfan time

  so my laptop is a toshiba a665-06f (Canadian model) which I bought from future shop, here is a link to the plug to laptop
  http://209.167.114.38/support/TechSupport/productcontents/satellite/PSAW3C-06F017.htm

  Since I bought the thing it's always hot, sometimes it would be closed at random (what I know now because it was over heating) didn't think much of him, but then when some games would drop fps unplayable rates I look a little closer and ran a few tests of temperature and I've been extremely surprised/worried to what I saw. I also used a laptop cooler that has 2 fans on the subject, but which does practically nothing. I'll post photos of Speedfan so that you guys can see what I'm talking about

  This first picture is about 2 minutes after that the laptop started well, it's a start-up costs and no program running (the laptop had been sitting off the coast during the night)
  

  on this picture you can see that after 5 minutes with nothing else that speedfan run times have exceded 50 ° C
  

  in the past only through normal conditions of use and the games, I saw temperatures between 90 c + and so I decided to perform a stress test and of course the time broke 90 c, I used the first 95 the stress tester. picture 1 is about 30 seconds in the test, photo 2 is after 10 minutes and photo 3 is a chart showing the increase in temperature and fluctuations over time

  
  
  

  This has been a problem since I bought this thing about 6 months ago, I have since updated the bios and all drivers for current versions and nothing did, im starting to wish I never bought this because these temperatures cannot be set, the processor will underclock itself .9ghz I saw it several times and most of the games became unplayable even with the smaller settings.

  If you think you have a solution please help im all ears, I don't even really this notebook, I saw the temp over 100 ° c before and I can not take any where without the cooler, might as well be a desktop computer, I wish I could get a refund even

  As I see see you as a serious matter, so in my opinion, you should contact Toshiba service provider at the nearest Canada and ask for help.

  It's OK to discuss this topic on the forum but you can read here are opinions or advice how to change some of the parameters of power. I doubt that this will help you contact Toshiba and ask what you can do about it.

• Overheating and decommissioning

  I mostly work stuff - Rhino 3D and 3DstudioMAX - my problem is that the Satellite cannot simply make the scenes without materials - after that 2-3 min rendered my laptop automatically shut down... I can't show my models at all: (...)

  (1) how to improve the ability of rendering on my laptop?
  (I put on a 20cm above the table books to increase airflow coolong but result is about the same :()

  (2) yesterday, a full range of pixels becomes dead - can I replace the monitor only?

  Concerning

  I put t know which model of laptop you have and how old it is, but it is perhaps time for professional cleaning. After this the laptop can catch its breath and it will be cleaned properly. Place the laptop on the books is a good idea.

  If the display is faulty, it can be exchanged but I think it is good idea to do it alone. I recommend you contact the partner of service authorized in your country.

  Good luck!