Hi all.
I have a toshiba m45-s355 laptop with a freezing problem.
It has:
1.86ghz pentium celeron m processor
1gb ram
3 usb ports (two of which do not function for some reason, i think they could be part of the problem)
had been running win xp corporate edition, sp2
I suppose that is enough description, anyways, I have never changed any internal hardware, only semi-dissasembled the thing to clean the dust out, I may or may not have messed something up while doing that a few weeks ago, though today I read a how-to on dissasembling it and did it the right way, and I feel like everything went back together fine.
For a long time, the thing would sometimes boot up with the screen not at full resolution, and just sit at the first screen that shows when its turned on until I restarted it. Also for a while, if I closed the lid, the screen would shut off, when I opened it, the screen wouldn't come back on....had to restart.
As if that wasn't enough to go wrong, 3 weeks ago I came home to the computer sitting there frozen, so I reach to hold down the power button for the 10 seconds necessary to do the restart, and it immediately shuts off.
I format, try and reinstall 3 different versions of windows, it keeps freezing during installation, etc. So I do some reading online, think its a bad hard drive, so I bought a new one, that wasn't the problem.
I then ran memtest86 on it and got no errors.
Today I tried it with and without the battery connected, no difference, it freezes either way.
Curiously it worked for like 20 minutes earlier (it usually freezes within a minute or two) and then I pick it up to sit it in my lap and it instantly freezes.
But it never freezes in safe mode....
I know that was an essay, anyone have some ideas?
Thanks in advance
I have a toshiba m45-s355 laptop with a freezing problem.
It has:
1.86ghz pentium celeron m processor
1gb ram
3 usb ports (two of which do not function for some reason, i think they could be part of the problem)
had been running win xp corporate edition, sp2
I suppose that is enough description, anyways, I have never changed any internal hardware, only semi-dissasembled the thing to clean the dust out, I may or may not have messed something up while doing that a few weeks ago, though today I read a how-to on dissasembling it and did it the right way, and I feel like everything went back together fine.
For a long time, the thing would sometimes boot up with the screen not at full resolution, and just sit at the first screen that shows when its turned on until I restarted it. Also for a while, if I closed the lid, the screen would shut off, when I opened it, the screen wouldn't come back on....had to restart.
As if that wasn't enough to go wrong, 3 weeks ago I came home to the computer sitting there frozen, so I reach to hold down the power button for the 10 seconds necessary to do the restart, and it immediately shuts off.
I format, try and reinstall 3 different versions of windows, it keeps freezing during installation, etc. So I do some reading online, think its a bad hard drive, so I bought a new one, that wasn't the problem.
I then ran memtest86 on it and got no errors.
Today I tried it with and without the battery connected, no difference, it freezes either way.
Curiously it worked for like 20 minutes earlier (it usually freezes within a minute or two) and then I pick it up to sit it in my lap and it instantly freezes.
But it never freezes in safe mode....
I know that was an essay, anyone have some ideas?
Thanks in advance
