Satellite M40 - Power stops suddenly

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• Satellite P20 S203 stops suddenly

  Hello

  In the last month my Satellite P20 S203 does so well, and unfortunately it seems that the problem is a hardware one (but I'm not sure, and that's why I'm writing here)

  The computer just stops suddenly (it happened 2 or 3 times in the last 30 days); every time it happened I was on the web on Firefox, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it, and I'm also 99% sure that this is not a virus, malware or something like that, cause I formatted there are 3 months and nothing else behave in a strange way, the computer is slow or something like that.

  The last two options are that the question can be of a physical nature, or a software (as a conflict between the operating system and installed programs); I'm more to the first, but I do not know and I need assistance to find out... What should I do?

  In addition, when it stops suddenly, it won't turn with the first try.
  He needs like 10 or 20 times to open like an old car that won't start; the first, say, 5 times I try to turn it on, it appears only the toshiba logo.
  It then passes through a screen, I can not read because it goes too fast.

  Then a black screen, then it turns off again.
  With the next try that it goes a bit further, as it displays the windows logo, but as this image is fading, it stops halfway through the fading process, resulting in a darker windows logo, as it is too difficult for her to load the OS!

  But then it turns off again!

  Then after a few other attempts it finally loads windows.

  Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

  OS: Windows XP SP2

  Hello

  Maybe the laptop stops due to a higher internal temperature.
  High temperature leads to an overheating of the questions and the laptop would be stops down automatically to prevent the equipment from damage.
  The other point is that the high temperature may affect the RAM modules.
  In this case the laptop computer may freeze or you will receive a Blue Screen Of Death.

  I had a similar problem in the past. About 6 years ago my first oldie started to overheat.
  I cleaned the cooling modules, but the questions again.
  Finally, I contacted the laptop technician in downtown, and he said that the thermal grease that is placed between the cooling module and the CPU must be renewed.

  He did, and it helped!

• Satellite A30 303 stops suddenly

  Very recently (strangely, just like the year warranty missed!) my laptop has been close so any intensive (I guess) the program is running (games, Norton Antivirus full analysis, in particular). Deleting the temporary files is a suggested by Symantec for help, but only on one occasion. It is not closed for any other use; There is no error message or accident, stopping just sudden and decommissioned. When he took over, there is no error message.

  Help please?

  RP

  Hi Roger,

  I suspect that your A30 could be overheating. There is a thermal trigger designed to cut power to the laptop if the CPU overheats. Normally this will be accompanied by an increase in the activity of fan cooling.

  You will find a lot of posts in this forum about exactly this situation, but in short, I recommend to use a hose of vacuum cleaner against the grids of aspiration of air on the bottom of the A30 fan to remove all dust and debris from the heatsink to the CPU.

  If the problem persists, it may be necessary to remove the heatsink for cleaning but this can invalidate your warranty if it is still in force.

  HTH

• Satellite M40: Power calibration error - drive cannot burn DVD - RW more

  My drive is a carpet * an oem UJ - 831S. After a screw-up partitioning job, I had to format my HD and reinstall Windows XP... and then I can not burn DVD - RW more.

  Tried many programs such as Nero and a fireman, gives an error of calibration of power from the beginning.
  Burning CD - r and CD - RW no problem however, and I can read CDs and DVDs of movies very well.

  Google and searched for a month without success, tried to blow the laser lens, but there is no dust, I tried different media, etc. I know the best answer is that the drive is done, BUT I refuse to acknowledge it because it is too big of a coincedence to stop working right after that I reinstalled XP.

  An interesting note however, my laptop has not been provided with a CD of Toshiba, so I had to reinstall manually more drivers by downloading the Toshiba site, so I have a funny feeling, this could be a thing of the software/firmware, or even a framework.

  I installed the new firmware 1.02 for the reader as well. I don't remember what the firmware was before resettlement, IE the laptop computer settings to factory default, I'd like to downgrade to 1.00 if possible.

  Experts have ideas? And is there a way I can reset the firmware?

  Maybe I could remove the drive from the system-> devices and let XP Reinstall for me?

  Hello

  > I don't know the best answer is that the drive is done, BUT I refuse to acknowledge it because it is too big of a coincidence to stop working right after that I reinstalled XP.

  Of course, it s simply to say the drive is dead because everything looks like a hardware malfunction. Most often the power calibration error appears because of the drive lens can't calibrate in the right position and thus cannot read some CD or DVD s s or it of not possible to write about them.

  But maybe you are a lucky man and might try this procedure:
  -Try to remove the drive physically from the Bay for laptop
  -Restart the unit without the drive
  -In this case the operating system should start from the HARD drive
  -Close the notebook then reinsert the drive unit in the Bay of s for laptop
  During initialization, the laptop should recognize the drive and must pick up the firmware

  Then you can check if you can burn the DVD again, otherwise you will need a new drive

• Satellite M40 - 129 stops starting after the Toshiba screen

  Hello
  My M40 continues sometimes to start after the Toshiba screen. He stops and all I see is the blinking cursor. No Error Message or something else and normal boot from the HARD drive. Boot from CD (for example. Œuvres of Knoppix). This problem sometimes occurs and traceable for me isn´t.

  Best regards
  Spoony

  Hey Spoony

  Unfortunately on this path, it is not easy to say why this is happening. Each user has a specific configuration OS and we don t know how your operating system is configured.

  You can boot OS in safe mode? If Yes check what the problem may be a little. If there is anything you can do I recommend you save all your data and preinstall unit using rescue media. If you do this I recommend also to create two partitions.

  Don t compare WXP and Linux startup procedure. As you know that Knoppix using just the RAM and no HARD drive for the race.

• Satellite M40 - start and stop issue

  Hello

  I have a problem with my laptop Satellite M40 on stop to the low process sometimes also on windows start and I think it's BIOS associates.

  When I start my laptop, sometimes (not always) I get an error message in a blue screen saying that my BIOS is not fully ACPI-compatible... I reboot, and if I wait a while, the system boots normally, but if I just restart immediately, he'll get the same message.
  It happens sometimes that the computer goes further opening in the black screen message: contact tomorrow: toshiba

  The other problem, I don't know if it of related or not, is that the computer is not shut down or restart. I have to do it by pressing the button for a while. I thought it was an application that I had in my system that was the cause, but I have just formatted the hard drive and the same mistakes are still ongoing...

  When it stops, it stops right on the message: 'Windows is shutting down... ". »

  I updated my BIOS with the new available for download here to toshiba support, and I think it was the trigger for all these problems... now I don't know how to go back, or even if it's the reason.
  I really hope someone here can help me, because I just wanted all the information related to the internet without success.

  Thank you!

  Hello

  Satellite M40 is well-known for me because one of my friends has one at home. Laptop very nice.

  So, what can I say? It's really not easy to say what the problem is here, but if you use Windows XP Home edition for a long time, it can happen that one day to happen strange things. I believe that no one here can say with certainty what the problem with your machine.

  If possible, you should clean OS installation using recovery media delivered. After doing this, you should see what is happening. In this case, no one can say that there are programs that have bad influence on the execution of the operating system.

• Satellite M40 - 244 sudden stop - cooling/temperature problem?

  Hello everyone!

  For about 1 week, my laptop M40-244 became unable to cool down! Then, of course, more often, it stops suddenly to avoid any damage. I am sure that this problem is triggered out of cooling, simply by touching the left side of the key board it is easy to feel the (high-temperature 8 -

  My QUESTION is: is it possible for me to avoid the repair?

  I'm in Shanghai, I can not expensive toll-free phone and surprisingly that I have not found in the Web from Toshiba site any way to contact a Toshiba support by e-mail (if someone knows a way, please tell me!)

  Because it's very curious: my laptop is '8-month-old', never this kind of problem to date, and Toshiba is well known for a good cooling system. Recently, my laptop did not shock. Would it be possible that the fan has suddenly stopped working well?

  I tried to "verify" my laptop, but the failed to install of Speedfan and Motherboard Monitor 5 seems unsuited to the M40 244 then he is totally unable to find any sensor Board! Now, I've seen in some forums and website the possibility of the "underclocking", or a way to 'reset' the BIOS fan, but, Wow!, I am not an expert! What it means? It is possible with a laptop computer, or it is only possible with a PC?

  Here go us! I can go to a store of Toshiba and I guarantee, but it is required to serve 1 week without my laptop so professionally, she is extremely boring for me!

  Sorry, I'm a little long and sorry for my English (I'm French!), but If someone KNOWS A WAY THAT ALLOWS ME TO SOLVE this COOLING PROBLEM BY MYSELF, please tell me!

  Thanks in advance,

  Fred

  Hi Fred

  Vacuuming, cleaning procedure is not bad and very easy, but be careful. But if it does not help you should contact Toshiba service partner.
  The fact is that your laptop is under warranty and if there is a serious problem with the cooling module and fans the service partner must check.

  If you click this link, you will find the list of the FSA from Toshiba:
  http://www.CSD.Toshiba.com/cgi-bin/TAIS/Su/su_gaspLocator.jsp?PF=true

  In addition, you should check the settings in the energy saver because this Toshiba tool that controls the use of the CPU and cooling method.

  Good luck

• Satellite M40-225 suddenly switching OFF

  Has anyone ever experienced their series M40 suddenly turn off without warning, with the power supply on and for no apparent reason? More generally, it occurs when writing in Word for an extended period (e.g. 2 hours). I ran several software spyware and viruses to see if there was something like that causing the problem, but everything is clear.

  What it might be and there at - it an easy way to fix it?

  Hello

  Maybe overheating! Satellite M40 is two years old now, and I can imagine that there is more dust inside. I recommend to clean it up and you will see that the unit won't stop and will also work a lot more silent as before.

• Satellite M40 - 277 keeps restarting - button / stop?

  I have the problem that the (per hour to enter acient) laptop Satellite M40 277 of mine keeps restarting unpredictibally. Initially I have if it was a problem of overheating, so I used SpeedFan and CPU-Burn a test, but the computer does not restart until the airflow to the bottom is fine (I consider that the entry of the fan on the bottom a design error, but it's something else). Now, if the air flow is a bit stuffy, the laptop stops at about 83 and then it will have difficulty to challenge. Ok.

  However when the laptop is about 63C it restarts sometimes and I feel, it can be a power button is stuck. I have XP installation so that it will always ask before you actually stop, and when I pick up the phone on the side (the plastic box where the power button is integrated in waiting) I often question of the judgment. NP, just click away. But I also feel that the button can get stuck and then the system turns off after 5 seconds of 'holding company' the power button.

  So I just tried to get a quick glance and we should normally be able to remove the keyboard, but this M40 is a challenge. Even after that the keyboard is free, I don't see the actual power button.

  Is there anyway to loook under high elegant green rim the power button? How to open this thing up?

  Tom

  Hello

  As far as I know this little switch cover is fixed by 6 latches and connected with small flat cable to the motherboard. It just seems but if you don't know how to remove it you can damage these small latches and later you won't be able to fix the new.

  Anyway, if you think that this power button / troubled maybe just make the switch cover replacement may solve the problem.
  What say about it? Try to get the spare part and ask if anyone can exchange it for you.
  Of course, the best thing is to ask for professional help, but it will cool somewhat.

  Another way, do a risk and try to replace one.
  Let me know what you think of this.

  Good bye

• Satellite Pro L500 - stops when the power cord removed

  Toshiba Satellite Pro L500 stops when the power cord is removed even with the battery to 100%. I removed the battery and all the indications associated with battery answer correctly. For example turns off, Toshiba Health Monitor also indicates when the battery is removed. If installed Health monitor indicates that the battery is at 100%.

  Someone please help. I have not installed anything new.

  Hey,.

  For me, the matter is clear: the battery can't hold a charge so the laptop will be shut down because it has no power.

  I think you need to replace the battery with a new one and you can get a provider of service authorized in your country. Simply contact the guy and ask that they can tell you how much it would cost.

  You can find a list of all FSA here:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads > find an authorized service provider

  Good luck! :)

• Guard Satellite Pro stopping suddenly.

  My laptop is suddenly stop - and do not restart.
  "It happens esp if I try to do a scan Mcafee - when it comes down to a ' 1386 file" on the C: drive it stops! (but it also stopped at another time).
  I've defragmented it and cleaned up the cookies etc. It is about 50% left on hard drive and even if 4 years old and a little slow sound otherwise was a good laptop Satellite Pro.

  Any ideas? Ah its driving me crazy!

  Stopping suddenly may also be due to overheating. Usually when he runs some CPU or graphics intensive application, the material can get the critical temperature level and simply turns off.

  I'm sure that after some time you can start your laptop. He is old enough laptop model and it's time for cleaning. I really can't say if this has something to do with the preinstalled stuff.

• Backlight is disabled until the power management software is loaded on the Satellite M40 - 295

  Greetings to all members of the forum.

  I am owner of ten months a Satellite M40-295. My problem is the following:

  When I start my computer the backlight is disabled until I go into Windows and the power management program is loaded.
  After that the backlight of the screen lights up. I tried to change the brightness with Fn-F6/7 and screens using Fn + F5 without success.

  Init information (init messages, such as the Toshiba and Windows logo) appears on the screen (I checked it under the intense light and the screen from another angle of view), so the adapter seems to work properly.

  Thanks in advance

  Hi Evangelos

  I'm afraid that now, you have a problem. If the unit won't start the BIOS chip is probably damaged. In my opinion BIOS update was bad idea.

  Right now I don't want write something on the screen because now it is not important at all. Please contact the customer Service of your country partner and let check the device. Sorry, but I'm 99.9% that the unit is now completely screwed.

  If the appliance shows any sign of life is the case for the service. :(

• Satellite L50-B-1HU suddenly stops

  Hello

  My Toshiba Satellite L50-B-1HU suddenly stops three times last month.
  Twice when the laptop is connected to food, at a time when it was not (just working on the battery).

  Overheating does not seem to be implied: the fan isn't really hot after these 'accidents '. The laptop can be restarted too many immediateley.

  This known issue is - and how to fix it?

  Thank you
  JF

  On this virtual path, it is not easy to say what the problem is here and what can be the reason of these judgments.
  Have you used a certain application when this happened?

• Satellite M40-133: problem starting after a stop

  When my Satellite M40 - 133 EN if I start it again all that I get is the Toshiba welcome screen.
  If it is left for a while it will start as usual. When executing it is quite hot.

  Help, please.

  To me, this looks like a problem with overheating.
  It seems that the laptop can not start and start properly due to high internal temperature.

  The main reason why an overheating problem is very simple.
  Don t cooling modules work correctly. In my view, that dust and debris prevent cooling with maximum performance running fans.

  Simply cleaning fan should help you.
  From time to time, I clean my fans too. I use a jet of compressed air. These sprays are very useful to get rid of dust and most computer/computer laptop dealers offer these sprays.

  If it will not improve the situation, then a mobile technician needs to disassemble the laptop and recommended to clean properly. In addition, it should renew the thermal grease that is placed between the CPU and the cooling module, too.

  Good luck

• Question about updating BIOS for my Satellite M40

  So, my laptop does not start, but works recovery procedure. Support suggested me to update my Bios.
  OK, given that the last time, it was easy.

  I downloaded the newsest version vor my Satellite M40 (PSM40) (1, 70 - WIN<= i="" have="" an="" ati="" grafics="" card)="" and="" extracted="" the="" bios-20070709161345.zip="">
  But there was a surprise:
  Instead of getting the old data structure, as written in the FAQ update Bios
  1 extract the zip file containing the BIOS upgrade to a temporary folder.
  2. in the folder temporary three subfolders will be generated. "docs", 'Update - 3.5' disc', 'Update - CD - R or CD - RW"

  I get a file only: BIOS of Windows Knockhill10GV170.exe
  Extraction of it I get 8 files:
  -fdbase.img
  -InsydeFlash.exe
  -iscflash.dll
  -iscflash.vxd
  -KPM170. ROM
  -Platform.ini
  -The c:\windows\system32\unicows.dll

  Now my question: How can I create this bootable CD-ROM to update my Bios?

  Just to know: download all the other things are done on my desktop from my laptop is not starting ;)
  I also tried to run the exe in the hope that it will create a floppy disk or a CD-ROM, but it is written "basic cfg address not found."

  Hello

  Update the BIOS there are two ways to do this:
  -Traditional mode (TRAD) and in this case, you need floppy
  -Windows (WIN) and this update can be done under operating system running.

  Update BIOS WIN will work if you run Windows on your laptop satellite. If I understand your assignment well you are trying to do traditional BIOS updated, but using the BIOS to WIN update. On the Toshiba download page, there are two listed BIOS updates and two of them as versions of WIN. This means that you can update the BIOS under operating system only.

  Back to your problem: in the history one thing confuses me when you write: my laptop does not start, but works recovery procedure. Sorry, but if the recovery procedure is working and you will have clean installed OS.

  Be a little more concrete in our laptop does not start. What happen exactly when you press the power button / stop?