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Out of 25 Toshiba 6000/6100 style laptops I have purchase over half of
them have failed requiring main or video board (or both) replacement.
One of them has had 5 main boards installed, several others have had 3
main boards installed. Toshiba has been taking care of these problems
on warantee, but recently the warantees expired and they a began to
charge for the repairs. I demanded to be put in touch with someone
besides their offshore support and once I got to a PR guy in So CA he
admitted they had a problem and is retrofitting all of them as I can
free them up to be sent in.
In order to get these laptops fixed, I puchased 6 Toshiba S1s (I need
a physical serial port) and issued them to my people with the
defective 6000/6100s. I have only had the S1s out for a couple of
weeks and have had two of them fail with a "Dumping Physical Memory"
screen then a reboot and a message the the system has just recovered
from a serious problem. It has been my experience that this indicates
a thermal hard drive problem.
Have I just bought in to another bad batch of laptops?
Out of 25 Toshiba 6000/6100 style laptops I have purchase over half of
them have failed requiring main or video board (or both) replacement.
One of them has had 5 main boards installed, several others have had 3
main boards installed. Toshiba has been taking care of these problems
on warantee, but recently the warantees expired and they a began to
charge for the repairs. I demanded to be put in touch with someone
besides their offshore support and once I got to a PR guy in So CA he
admitted they had a problem and is retrofitting all of them as I can
free them up to be sent in.
In order to get these laptops fixed, I puchased 6 Toshiba S1s (I need
a physical serial port) and issued them to my people with the
defective 6000/6100s. I have only had the S1s out for a couple of
weeks and have had two of them fail with a "Dumping Physical Memory"
screen then a reboot and a message the the system has just recovered
from a serious problem. It has been my experience that this indicates
a thermal hard drive problem.
Have I just bought in to another bad batch of laptops?