Posts by wmarti

Quote: Originally Posted by pr50wner its strange, people that have problems with toshiba KEEP having problems and then they just dont buy toshiba anymore. but people that have good luck with toshiba keep having good...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hitek146 I agree that Toshiba is highly lacking in the department of customer relations,.... Ford made the Pinto, but that doesn't make all Ford vehicles inferior... Taking those steps...

It kinda' sounds like you're simultaneously talking yourself into and out of the 6100 ;-) You can read my posts here and elsewhere about the 6100. I agree that it's more likely that someone will post with a negative rather than a...

I never fully understood what this meant, but when I used to get more detailed workorders back with our machines the repair would often be listed as "reflowed cold solder". I took it to mean they didn't replace, but reattached...

On the hard drive failures, I should clarify. They were "Toshiba" hard drives, but Toshiba has since sent us Hitachi as replacement drives and they fail, too. I've even had students purchase HD's on their own, fed up with the...

I just posted on this issue in the "Gateway 450 LCD problem- wig's out" thread, but short of it is that I've seen this flicker on many of the 100 450s we support. The problem seems to be the vid chip as they said. I've been...

I support 100+ of the 450s and most of them have had a problem with the video chip, some have been in multiple times. The problem has a fairly standard progression. Starts with video "tearing" or video that appears to...

I am support for medical students who have to purchase laptops; we've been at it for 9 years. 6 years were Toshiba and we were quite pleased, then came the SatPro 6100. I soon realized that my good feelings for Toshiba came from the...

I've had units go in for multiple motherboard/power board replacements which, along with the other multiple failures, brought me to the overheating/"cooking" conclusion. The hard drives continue to fail and Toshiba has begun...

#3 Sony who FAX'd me a repair quote, then told me there was no way to discuss with the tech, but I could FAX them a note which they answered by adjusting the quote to read that the customer refused repair, another FAX'd note which was...