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Toshiba Satellite P10 power problems
Graham_Devon
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Got a laptop, which is annoying the hell out of me!
The screen will come on, and then the backlight will start flashing after about 10 mins of use. The backlight will then go completely, so you can only see a dim outline of stuff on the screen....still works though.
Once you turn it off, you cannot turn it back on again, when you press the power button, it just blinks orange once. You can only turn it on if the screen is working, which means I can't hook it up to a monitor even. If you leave it for a good while, a few days, it will run for another 10 mins.
Have replaced the invertor board with no success.
Found that it looked to be a loose connection to the power board, so I have stripped the whole thing down completely, put it all back together, and it switched on, I was over the moon, and then 3 mins later, bang, backlight gone and back to square one.
Any ideas anyone? Does it need a new power board? Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P10. Seems such a shame to scrap it, as it's a respectable P4, 3ghz, 1gb RAM and a decent hard drive and video card, even got an SD card slot etc.
The state its in at the moment is this:
Trouble is, can't find anyway of seperating the power board from the motherboard, all seems to be one unit. Any ideas on that pic where it is??
It's driving me up the wall!!
Though at this point if no one can answer, might just take it out the casing alltogether and sell off the parts slowly and surely on ebay.
Oh and pic of the underside, if it helps point out any part that needs replacing...
The screen will come on, and then the backlight will start flashing after about 10 mins of use. The backlight will then go completely, so you can only see a dim outline of stuff on the screen....still works though.
Once you turn it off, you cannot turn it back on again, when you press the power button, it just blinks orange once. You can only turn it on if the screen is working, which means I can't hook it up to a monitor even. If you leave it for a good while, a few days, it will run for another 10 mins.
Have replaced the invertor board with no success.
Found that it looked to be a loose connection to the power board, so I have stripped the whole thing down completely, put it all back together, and it switched on, I was over the moon, and then 3 mins later, bang, backlight gone and back to square one.
Any ideas anyone? Does it need a new power board? Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P10. Seems such a shame to scrap it, as it's a respectable P4, 3ghz, 1gb RAM and a decent hard drive and video card, even got an SD card slot etc.
The state its in at the moment is this:
Trouble is, can't find anyway of seperating the power board from the motherboard, all seems to be one unit. Any ideas on that pic where it is??
It's driving me up the wall!!
Though at this point if no one can answer, might just take it out the casing alltogether and sell off the parts slowly and surely on ebay.
Oh and pic of the underside, if it helps point out any part that needs replacing...
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