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    Satellite Pro L650-1CH Motorboating/BSOD

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Mastadi, Mar 24, 2011.

  1. Mastadi

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    Hey guys, I have an issue with my notebook (mentioned in the title), namely, occasionally it hangs up for a second or a half, and makes a sort of motorboating sound. Usually, it's not much of an issue, although I believe it is related to my second problem; I haven't encountered it with any other videos or flash content, but whenever I try to watch the video on main page on Charlie Sheen Official Website | Home, my computer at first starts playing the sound with the video still loading, then turns to a black screen for a moment (sometimes with a similar motorboating sound), and goes back to normal (although some graphical glitches occur both in the browser and other programs running in the background, which usually go away after minimising and maximising), giving me a message:
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    The sound keeps playing through most of this, although after the initial black screen, it just turns into green box (all the movie controls such as play or pause are still there though) and the sound works fine. When try playing the video in Safe Mode with Networking, it works just fine.

    Afterwards, if I try running the video again (or any other flash-based content) it just gives me a BSOD, then restarts.

    Help would be appreciated, and NO, this is not a joke topic, it just happens that it's the only video which causes such errors :(
     
    Mastadi, Mar 24, 2011
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    wlachan, Mar 24, 2011
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    From what you have described, I would guess it's either the hard drive was dying and corrupting the Windows, or there was driver problem. You can test the hard drive with SeaTools for Windows (Long Generic). If it passes, goto device manager and try to update the video and audio drivers and see if MS would locate a more suitable ones. Also, there is no harm testing the RAM with memtest86+.
     
    wlachan, Mar 26, 2011
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