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Thread: Toshiba A200 satellite freezing


Started 2 months, 2 weeks ago by jonesie48
Hi everyone, I own a Toshiba satellite A200 (2 years old). In the past month or two, it has been freezing almost every time I use it. It freezes to the point where the mouse won't move, Caps lock key won't light up etc. I have to hold in power button to reset it. I took it to a technician, who said it was probably the heat. He ...
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rshaffer61 replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Hello jonesie48 .... Welcome to G eeksTo G o,, Let's take a look and see what we have here. Download Autoruns from the link in my signature below: 1: Extract the Autoruns Zip file contents to a folder. 2: Double-click the "Autoruns.exe". 3: Click on the "Everything" tab 4: Remove any entries that mention "File Not Found" by ...

jonesie48 replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Thanks for the reply. I did all the things you asked (was I meant to delete all text under the Debug pci heading? If not, I'll do it again with doing that). Attached thumbnail(s) Attached File(s) AutoRuns.txt ( 135.72K ) Number of downloads: 2...

rshaffer61 replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Autoruns and Everest report looks pretty good. let's look at some other issues. Go to Start and then to Run Type in Chkdsk /r Note the space between k and / Click Enter ...It will probably ask if you want to do this on the next reboot...click Y If the window doesn't shutdown on its own then reboot the system manually. On reboot the ...

jonesie48 replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Thanks for that. I did it. The laptop froze again, though. Any other ideas? This post has been edited by jonesie48 : Today, 02:24 AM

jonesie48 replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Double post. Sorry. This post has been edited by jonesie48 : Today, 02:24 AM

jonesie48 replied 2 months, 1 week ago
Thanks for that. I did 10 passes and got no errors at all.

rshaffer61 replied 2 months, 1 week ago
Well the problem doesn't seem to be memory or system files. I did see where chkdsk /r was requested did you ever get that done?

jonesie48 replied 2 months, 1 week ago
Yeah I tried that twice. It still freezes, though.

rshaffer61 replied 2 months, 1 week ago
Hardware wise we have cleared everything. Let's try the software direction. Lets see what you have in your startup Please click on Start and then to Run Type in msconfig and press Enter Now click on Startups Then uncheck everything and restart. If system boots correctly and is running smoothly and faster then we have a startup problem Try ...

jonesie48 replied 2 months, 1 week ago
I disabled all start-up items (most of them I had disabled anyway) and it still froze. I wasn't even using the computer - it was just idle, and I came home to find it frozen.

 

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jonesie48
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user's latest post:
Toshiba A200 satellite freezing
Published (2010-01-18 05:32:00)
Just to let people know in case they have a similar problem, I believe my issue was caused by AVG. I uninstalled AVG and installed Avast, and the laptop has been fine since.
rshaffer61
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Toshiba A200 satellite freezing
Published (2010-02-13 05:58:00)
Direct to: ramboNUFCSFC Please start your own topic Although your issue may seem similar there can be other factors that may need to be resolved. By bumping on someone's topic it makes it confusing for the tech to understand who they are helping. This can in turn cause the wrong support to be given and can cause instability or worse to happen to your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
ramboNUFCSFC
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Toshiba A200 satellite freezing
Published (2010-02-13 03:15:00)
Sorry to restart this thread but I have the exact same problem Jonesie has had and reading this thread his solution wouldnt help me as I never had AVG,always had Avast. in additon to all the things that happend to his A200 mine freezes even before start up somtimes. I have found it has frozen: - during normal start up (windows xp loading screen) - after normal start up a few mins in it locked up (most occuring) - frozen during a spyware check...

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