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    L655-S5110 Crashing

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Pistol5999, Jun 6, 2013.

  1. Pistol5999

    Pistol5999 Newbie

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    Hi, I have a Satellite L655-S5110 laptop which has preformed flawlessly since I bought it new in November 2010, until about a week ago when it froze without warning. I had to do a hard reboot to get it going again and after about 20 minutes it froze again which is now the problem. It will freeze in about 20 minutes every time it's started.

    Thinking it was a software problem I did a restore to two weeks prior and same problem.....I then did a restore to a point two months earlier and same problem, froze after a short time running. I removed all peripheral and rebooted and same result....frozen. I then decided to re-install windows 7 home premium 64 and same result....frozen. Booting in safe mode has no change....frozen. I have also restore the bios to the default settings but the bios has never been changed, this was just done to eliminate a possible cause.



    Satellite L655-S5110
    AMD Phonom II P940 1700Mhz
    BIOS Insyde Corp 1.70 Ver 2.6
    ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200


    For any solutions....thanks

    Pistol
     
    Pistol5999, Jun 6, 2013
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    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    Could be a bad memory [ram] module, or a failing harddrive [or something else].

    Try the Toshiba diagnostic software that came with your satellite to check the health of the HDD. Try memtest to check the health of the rams.
    Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

    Good luck
     
    alexUW, Jun 6, 2013
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  3. billa48

    billa48 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Run ubuntu on it with a usb for a day. If that works nicely then its just the hard drive. Try it with and without the hard drive in place.

    They were shipped with some real junk Western Digital drives, I have replaced a few now with the same symptoms.
     
    billa48, Jun 7, 2013
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    Pistol5999 Newbie

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    Thanks for the reply, and yes I agree with your diagnosis...I think I pretty much did everything to eliminate a software problem. The laptop is completely standard....I have since since experimented with the removal of the dimms of which there are two as standard. I have removed one dimm and rebooted swapped the dimms and rebooted again with the same problem......frozen. I think this should eliminate the ram as the culprit....which leaves the HDD. I will endeavour to test this tomorrow. I will get back with the results.

    Thanks for taking the time to reply.

    Cheers

    Pistol
     
    Pistol5999, Jun 9, 2013
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