Posts by mark mury

I do not doubt the genius of Toshiba in most of their products, especially notebooks. However, I do not believe we should expect less from such a company when it comes to supporting a fine performer like a Satellite 5101 (and...

Has anyone used a high-powered magnifier on the connector - either on the video card or the motherboard. I don't have access to my Toshiba right now but I wonder if it's a matter of bad soldering or tiny cracks in the circuit board...

Maybe we need a consumer advocate like Clark Howard or maybe even Kim Kommando. I think an email list to Toshiba would be as ineffective as a phone call. If someone has time to combine some of these postings on paper and mail it to...

I have owned four Toshibas. They all still work except for the 5105. I have bragged on them and have convinced others to buy Toshibas. I don't know how many Satellite 5105-S501s that Toshiba sold, but I wonder if they are writing us...

I've noticed several postings where others outside this forum are experiencing the same or similar Toshiba video problems. Maybe soon there will be enough of us to cause Toshiba or Nvidia to come up with a solution. Just...

I tried a temp readout program on mine, but I see no correlation between temp and crash. After a few minutes of vertical bar (sometimes worse) video, I get a device failure messsage and it goes to huge 4 bit mode. - Mark

The Toshiba guy told me to send almost 400 up front. The local repair guy said that he can't get the Nvidia geforce4 440 card. He said to try ebay. I never play games on the thing, but a couple days before the problem occurred, I...

Hi I have the exact same problem with my Toshiba 5105-S501. I've monkeyed with it scores of times with no results. Though it has the Nvidia goforce4 440, I ordered and installed an older version but it wouldn't even start up. I may...