Repair Troublems - Toshiba A135-2276, WTMC happen boy...

[Nephilim]

Ok heres the break down.

Sis on lappy yesterday, earth began moving, lappy screen conk out.

here are the symptoms:

1. comes on normal, post, only one intermittent error i noticed was sum to do with an over current on the USB, no USB devices were connected at the time though
2. some noise during start like static, from the speakers
3. if it does manage to boot past post, or hell, even IN post, the system freezes when you go to use the keyboard
4. sometimes it doh come on attall

initially i though it was the HDD (noise made me think it was the drive) but i decided to take another look at it, walk with my ubuntu disk to try to boot into live distro, nadda, wasnt hdd, removed hdd to make sure also, same thing.

i kinda stomped here, after everything else only think i could think of is power surge, as she was using it with adapter.

sigh...i dredding scrapping it, that thing have a million screws hoss, anybody with any lappy repair advice i welcome it even if you think i may have tried it already come with it anyway, i might have missed sum you never know..

thanks for any help fellas

[daniboy79]

sorry to hear of the delima. was any form of surge suppression being used at the time? i saw the lights in my office flicker briefly while the shaking, and i can just see that a surge IS possible during the E-Q.

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 likely a surge that helped fry your motherboard...


 From my experience with 2 dead motherboards they give similar issues :  static coming from the speakers as the onboard sound is damaged ,

 keyboard not responding , system refusing to boot up at times , will work fine on others.. , shutting down by itself for no reason..

[Redlum08]

sorry to hear of the delima. was any form of surge suppression being used at the time? i saw the lights in my office flicker briefly while the shaking, and i can just see that a surge IS possible during the E-Q.

Sounds like a surge to me, unless someone was using an EMP to cause the earthquake...O_o

[Saxito Pau]

Sis on lappy yesterday, earth began moving, lappy screen conk out.

O_O
Wait, wait, WAIT!!!

You let her... use something... electronic... AGAIN?    

*remembers WASD's WTMC posts about his sis and electronics...*

Was this your laptop by chance? Tell me it wasn't!!

At this stage I ready to tell you that sisters should be hot-swappable...

[Nephilim]

nah i not a lappy guy, i prefer desktops, cheaper and more powerful

sigh...this is real balls then...she go have to get another one, thank god it was a cheap laptop, cost about 400US (got it on sale )

i feel i might bite the bullet and get ah vostro for she qui, they  not bad for the price...*grumbles* dell *grumbles more*

LOL at letting her use something electronic...i say the exact same thing, thing that uses electricity round she is dead thing...lol

i will test the ram, hdd and stuff, might have some salvagable parts, processor might be ok too...

and we JUST put in a gig bout a month ago too...steups...

[Arcmanov]

I concur with the power surge theory.  I try not to EVER use mine without a portable, mini-suppressor.
TTEC power much too unreliable these days.

[Nephilim]

I concur with the power surge theory.  I try not to EVER use mine without a portable, mini-suppressor.
TTEC power much too unreliable these days.

speaking of which how much for one of those, if i looking to get one it have to be good - very good so i want to know who to look at. APC?