Toshiba Dynabook UX Netbook

Have had some problems with my netbook these days. I bought in only three months ago, so this situation is extremely odd for me. Usually, I can keep a laptop for about 2 and a half years before I reach the limits of its memory or max out the HDD capacity. I even had a ThinkPad that kept working after I spilled beer on the keyboard, although during winter, I had to "melt" the sticky substance under the keys with a blow dryer before it let me type something in a normal fashion.

For the past couple of days, I turned on the computer. The HDD LED on the front edge of the body would light and then suddenly turn off. Normally, it flickers as Windows loads itself. Power LED was OK, but the HDD LED wouldn't flicker and I would be stuck with a silent machine that had a black screen. Nothing. Zilch. Nada.

I turned everything off and went to bed. The next morning, I went to work. Turned on the laptop in a dry, cool, air-conditioned office. Surprise! My computer was running again!

After work, I went back to the classroom and tried to boot the computer again. This time, the room was hot and humid. No response from the computer. A black screen, no HDD LED flickering, no fan blowing, nothing. "Hmm...," I thought to myself.

I popped the netbook in the fridge for about 10 minutes and took it out. The computer booted up just fine! I will feel "lonely" for maybe a week or two. This computer is compact, light, relatively responsive, and best of all, has an extremely nice keyboard that is easy to type on!

These users had similar problems with their laptops, too:

- http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread120781.html#
- http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-6398-my-laptop-won-t-start
- http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/laptop-support/35971-toshiba-satellite-a30-wont-boot-blank-screen.html
- http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?s=b7b48e97e0c1015e71854de924f1ee1f&t=131894

Sunday morning, Toshiba will send a guy out to pick up the computer and hopefully they will be able to repair it without having to change hard drives. It took me three days to install all the programs, update all the various versions of software, set up the email accounts and passwords, copy all the documents files from a backup HDD, etc. I don't want to go through all of that again for at least a couple of years!

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