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I hope you can give me some advice. This week I bought a new Toshiba P300-GU with Vista Home Premium. It worked fine for about 3 days but now it won't start up at all.
Symptoms:
* - A few LED-lights blink for a second before they turn off again.
* - No sound from either fan or harddrive.
I tried to remove battery and power cable and left the computer for a day before trying again. There is no difference except for a few more LED-lights blinking for a second the first time I try to start up the computer. Next time I try, only a few lights blink again.
After I discoved the start-up problem I noticed that the power supply is fairly noisy. I also noticed that the machine has a small bubly mark in the plastic in the upper left corner above the screen. (Looks like a production error or transportation fault) You hardly notice the small 1 cm inconsistency in the plastic, but it doesn't look like a normal scratch.
As I thought the power supply might be causing the problems because of the strange sounds, I brought the maschine to a PC technician today. He tested the power supply, and said that it worked properly, but he also said that it shouldn't sound like that. He did not open the notebook, in order not to cause trouble regarding the Toshiba warranty.
I bought the computer in Denmark as I wanted a Danish keybord. However I live in Portugal, where I will be using the computer. This is where the PC is now.
Do you recommend that I contact an ASP in Portugal to repair the PC or do you suggest that I return the PC to the dealer in Denmark?
Will the ASP be able to exchange the screen and the power supply which obviously both are not in the state they should be?
Thanks for any advice!

Hello
First of all I must say I never had problems after 3 days of my new Toshiba notebook but such things happens and no manufacture is perfect.
Furthermore I must agree with you. I would bring the notebook to an ASP because it seems that mainboard is faulty but Im not sure. This is only my personal opinion and so the notebook should be checked by a notebook technician.
As far as I know the notebook is covered by 1 year international warranty and so I would contact the ASP in your country. Ask them if they can repair your notebook and if not you must contact the other ASP where you bought the notebook.
I think this is the best solution because they can tell you what to do exactly.
Good luck and Im sure that your notebook will be repaired as fast as possible.
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