Toshiba

How about just being a Toshiba from a couple of years ago...and I'm not tryingto be humerous. Toshiba had a bad lot a couple of years ago that did things like this for a variety or reasons like bad mothboard, bad diodes that would cointrol power. There was a class action against them for replacement on these machines. They had a list of models on their website this effected, so it may not be a bad idea to check that out.

If this is a new one though, my only guess would be a fan that isn'tworking correctly and slowly cooking the chip.

Good luck to you

Mark

The class action suit caller 1 was referring to was in regards to the floppy drive, which affected system performance. Something about the drive not returning boot sequence signals, ie, I'm cool, I'm here, working, but no floppy installed. Since I didn't work on or own any of the affected models, I trashed the Class action paperwork 2 years ago, but I'm sure the fix is still floating around the toshiba web page.

Is this a toshiba with a removeable floppy, ie attached via a cable? A simple check to see if this is the case, boot the Laptop without the floppy attached, and then with. Look at the difference in boot time.

If this doesn't apply, well, back to the old drawing board.