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Toshiba Tecra 8100

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by scummybear Apr 25, 2002 last reply Jul 24, 2002

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Hey there!

Gotta love this! Installing software on this rather nice looking paperweight laptop from Toshiba. The Tecra 8100.

This problem occurs:

Toshiba Start Screen comes up... Windows ME screen comes up and then goes back to the Toshiba Start Screen again... And keeps going on like this until I intervene and press F8 at Toshiba Screen to get into Safe Mode.

Has anybody else ever encountered this or something like it? I mean, I like merry-go-rounds, but just not on a stinking laptop.

Thanks.

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by fury57 Apr 25, 2002

Yes, I had that problem too, but it was not a laptop....I put togheter this computer myself, one day I turned it off, the next day I turned it back on again, but it never completed a full boot....it just went on again off again for several times untill I went into safe mode...then for days it was ok....untill it did it again, finally I got tired of that and started the troubleshoot routine...what I found......I was not cooling the system rigth....so I added another in-take and another out-take fans, Problem solved after that....I want to mention that I already had one fan as intake and the power supply fan as out-take, but seems to me that it was not enough. GOOD LUCK!!, check with your manufacturer for possible cooling system problems on that particular Laptop.