Hello, I have a Toshiba L505D S5983 laptop (i bought a factory refurb in 2010). Over the last year I upgraded the RAM (3 to 4GB) and Microprocessor (from shipped to AMD Turion M640).
I have recently noticed that the computer displays “low on RAM memory” type errors (baseless since I run laptop in performance mode, kill all non-windows processes on startup ,etc), and there seems to be other slow behavior.
Just yesterday, the sound and USB ports became completely unavailable. In researching this issue for Toshiba Satellite L505d laptops, I came across a thread that describes this as a common issue that may be resolved by resoldering a specific chip: http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-Sound/no-sound-usb-on-satellite-l505d-gs6000/td-p/172564/page/15
I was readying myself to open the laptop and give soldering a first try, then the computer froze and I did a reboot to notice that pink pixel artifacts are all over the screen. They do not flash, seem to follow/shadow some window borders slightly. Then I got to wondering, do I possibly have a bigger issue?
I did try all other expected troubleshooting – power off / remove power supply; try to update all drivers; try to enable/disable device manager items (ie, Sound drivers don’t even display, HD Audio Controller displays unresolveable error; USB interfaces don’t even display in device tree); I did a system restore, I booted in safe mode, etc.
If anyone has a gut feel on whether this is a broader issue (such as - motherboard is probably “totaled”, could it possibly be hard drive related?), or suggestion on something else I might try, I would be most grateful!
Thank you!
I have recently noticed that the computer displays “low on RAM memory” type errors (baseless since I run laptop in performance mode, kill all non-windows processes on startup ,etc), and there seems to be other slow behavior.
Just yesterday, the sound and USB ports became completely unavailable. In researching this issue for Toshiba Satellite L505d laptops, I came across a thread that describes this as a common issue that may be resolved by resoldering a specific chip: http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Audio-Sound/no-sound-usb-on-satellite-l505d-gs6000/td-p/172564/page/15
I was readying myself to open the laptop and give soldering a first try, then the computer froze and I did a reboot to notice that pink pixel artifacts are all over the screen. They do not flash, seem to follow/shadow some window borders slightly. Then I got to wondering, do I possibly have a bigger issue?
I did try all other expected troubleshooting – power off / remove power supply; try to update all drivers; try to enable/disable device manager items (ie, Sound drivers don’t even display, HD Audio Controller displays unresolveable error; USB interfaces don’t even display in device tree); I did a system restore, I booted in safe mode, etc.
If anyone has a gut feel on whether this is a broader issue (such as - motherboard is probably “totaled”, could it possibly be hard drive related?), or suggestion on something else I might try, I would be most grateful!
Thank you!
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