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Old 11-04-2010, 01:55 AM   #1
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Fuck my life

I buy a new computer on Saturday and spend hours spread over many days getting everything onto the hard drive and all of my programs setup.

A few hours ago I started getting an error message about the cooling system that pops up every 2 to 3 minutes. It seems to happen right before the fan kicks on. System seems fine ... Google turns up other Toshiba users with similar problems and it seems like the solution is to send it off to be repaired.

I can't win. I had to get a new computer because the HD on my old notebook was starting to fail and it was old enough to justify just buying a new computer rather than replacing the HD.

I can't win.

There are a lot of smart people on GFY; anybody have a workaround?
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Old 11-04-2010, 02:00 AM   #2
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Is this a laptop?
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Old 11-04-2010, 02:03 AM   #3
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Maybe a water cooler or something like these LINK

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Old 11-04-2010, 02:15 AM   #4
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It's most likely your processor over heating. That's why you're seeing the message before your fans kick in. You shouldn't 'work around' it. Take the computah back.
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Old 11-04-2010, 02:49 AM   #5
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Yes, a notebook.

I've been lucky for the last hour after it had been going on for a few hours in a row.

I'm just going to call them tomorrow and see what they say. I've since found out that I can disable the message.

Nothing is even remotely warm ... I'm monitoring CPU and all and everything seems normal.

I really don't want to ship this back so I'm going to ask if maybe there is so way to get a promise that they'll fix it in x amount of time if it really ends up being a real problem.

My old laptop used to get REALLY hot but I still didn't have any problems. That thing was going on three years old I think and was faithful and served me well until the very end. It still runs great and is fast, just with so many corrupted files it's hard to do anything other than surf the web without getting BSOD.

Edit: based on what I've been reading, with Toshiba notebooks it may be more of a sensor issue than an actual overheating problem. I'll ask them when I call...it seems common enough that they'll know what I'm talking about ... although a lot of threads I read were from '06 ... you'd think they'd figure it out by now.

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