R.I.P, my trusty Toshiba
Well, my Toshiba laptop passed away suddenly the other day. Couldn't turn it on, yet worked fine day before. Probably a bad mother board. Over the years, I've only owned Toshibas since I found them to...
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zigzagrv wrote:
Bought my Toshiba Satellite laptop in 2004. Still use it today mainly for Delorme Street Atlas for trip planning and navigating. It's a nice, big GPS. Replaced battery once and repaired power plug. Of course, running Windows XP, you can't do a lot with it because of IE. However, works pretty good with Firefox.
When my laptop does what you describe, I remove battery for a while, reinsert and it's back in operation.
My original Toshiba, quite a few years old, also ran XP. It came with a recovery disc, so I reinstalled the whole OS and sold it a few years ago when I went to Windows 8 (now 10). At times, I wish I'd kept it. Could have used it for other purposes.
