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    Satellite A100-VA9 Crashing

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by sushi_boy604, Dec 4, 2007.

  1. sushi_boy604

    sushi_boy604 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, i was wondering if anyone could help me. This does not have to be specifically for my laptop but it would help. My laptop is almost a year old. I have never had problems with it till recently. When watching videos from my HHD or listening to music on my HHD, it randomly crashes. In most cases it won't do that. It is just lately it has been happening.

    2 weeks ago was where I first encountered the problem. I was listening to my music and suddenly it crashed. I wasn't a big deal at the time. So I restarted it. Within a few hours with that reboot, it crashed again, while listening to music. I started to get worried. During a lecture at university, it crashed when I tried to wake up my laptop from standby. Then I decided to do a factory restore to see if it could fix the problem. That was about a week ago. It was fine up and till now where it had locked up when watching a video on my HHD. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance guys :)
     
    sushi_boy604, Dec 4, 2007
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    Download HD Tune and go to the Health section. See if there are any problems.
    Your HDD may fail really soon or its overheating.
     
    allan_huang, Dec 4, 2007
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    Hi. Thanks for the reply allan_huang. It says its working. I thought it might be my harddrive too. Heres an update: i was watching a video from my laptop via my desktop PC. The laptop crashed. Thanks in advance.
     
    sushi_boy604, Dec 4, 2007
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    It might be your ram, if there are some errors, it might cause the OS to restart. Download MemTest86, burn it, pop it in and run it at least once.
     
    allan_huang, Dec 6, 2007
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    Thanks again for the relpy. I've ran the test twice and it seems to be alright. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
     
    sushi_boy604, Dec 6, 2007
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