Qosmio X300-14P : Graphic card issues and vertical stripes on display

Hi,
2 days ago, after a long notebook session of many many hours, suddenly after playing for 2 hours the game
Patrician 4 addon, it crashed in a strange and never seen before way:
The display would show strange and weird colours in all forms rushing over ther display. You could not recognize anything anymore, and after a few seconds of this the screen and the x300-14P completely froze/crashed (hung - no reaction on anything except power plug pull and/or 5 seconds push of ther power button).
I was afraid since this to me looked like a serious issue of either graphic card (nvidia chip) or display.
I hoped it was because of heat (though i have a powerful cooling pad below the notebook and heat shouldnt be a problem).
Next day (yesterday) I launched the game immediately after startup, and after a few seconds the same crash appeared again with the same strange video glitches (never saw something strange like that before).
I immediately did the 5 second power button press reset,. and then, when the first boot screen appears (the bios display hint and the loading/booting screen), there were like 2-7 vertical white stripes (on the black background) on the right side of the screen.
They wouldn't move nor go away.
I immediately turned the notebook off and it is off since then.
To me this looks really serious, as if either nvidia chip (Geforce 9800-GTX) is broken or the display.
Does anyone know something about this ?
Has anyone heard of such a problem ?
Who knows more ?
I know, i can now connect an external monitor.
If there is no problem, this should mean that it is a x300 display problem
If the problem also appears on the external monitor, it is the nvidia gpu chip. That would be at least my guess.
Has anyone any idea about this, what it might be and what i could do ?
(i am afraid sending the x300 in to toshiba for fixing is not worth it, as it is pretty old
(it was purchased new in june 2009). fixing it is probably too expensive.
Any ideas about hthis problem ?
I never had it before.
Who can help ?
Thanks
P.S:
I was thinlking about buying the new qosmio X870, but i just saw it has no express card slot, which i need for various expansion modules (like tv and video equipment, more e-sata cards etc.pp.).
Without an express card slot i wouldn't buy any notebook, i need this slot urgently (it is like a pci-express card connection slot in a desktop pc).
To me the express card slot is vital.
Too bad many notebooks dont have it anymore.
So io might need my x300 for some time,
but what shoudl i do abpout this new strange video chip/display problem ?

Hi,
yes.
even windows has now deactivated the whole graphic card, saying it was deactivated because
it reported an error - CODE 43 .
the stripes are still there at boot screen and bios screen, they go away though as soon as windows loads,
but this has deacvtivated the nvidia chip (the nvidia device driver software wouldnt start at all, it says : no nvidia gpu connected (since it was deactivated by windows 7)).
looks like i have to send the x300 to toshiba for repair (maybe even mainboard replacement).
who knows how i can find the local toshiba repair company ?
whom can i call in
FRANKFURT AM MAIN
GERMANY
to get my toshiba notebook repaired ?
if someone has the adress and even better telephone nummber, i would be happy.
a second question, by the way :
did someone of you ever replace the mainboard in a toshiba X300 / X305 ?
how expensive was that ?
thanks

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Dell Wireless 1703 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0+LE
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P.S. If you are wondering about that weird brace to the right of the PSU...   I added a 3rd hard drive below the CD Drive. There are only the "Front mounting holes" , so I got a little creative and straightened out one of the "PCI Mounting Plates" from an old ATX Case.   I bent the section with the screw fasteners with a pair of pliers, and the bracket as the perfect length to attach diagonally -- as a cross brace to hold the back of the hard drive in place:
[Edited 12/5/2014 -- Added system specifications and a few more photos]

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Hi abdallah650, By default the graphic cards used by computer are switched automatically, depend of application to run. You can check and change this for each application in NVidia Control Panel - 3D settings.
Also you can run each application with right click on it and choose the prefered graphic card. Read this article: switching between Intel and NVidia graphics and here. I hope that will help you.

Qosmio X300-14P - Not listed anymore

Hi,
I couldnt believe it: The Toshiba Qosmio X300-14p is suddenly not listed anymore among the models at the driver download page. Why?
Would Toshiba website creators please be so kind and include it again?!
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Really, such behaviour shows that there is no more difference between cheap noname notebook makers and the so called "good name" makers.
martin

Hi buddy,
I dont know what problem you have and on what Toshiba website you search exactly, but Qosmio X300 is still listed on driver download page:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp
Notebook > Qosmio > Qosmio X Series > Qosmio X300
Check this!!!

New Qosmio X300-14p with bios 2.40

hi,
i purchased a new toshiba qosmio x300 in a store that had a single one still in stock.
i have had a x300-.14p (pqx32e-04h02wgr) before and thus know it a bit.
i remeber : the latest bios for the x300 even today is version 2.10
i was surprised that the new x300 i purchased has the bios version 2.40 !!!
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how can a new x300 have a later bios than that offered in the official toshiba support site for the qosmio x300 ?
my question : is this ok ?
or is this some weird error and do i have to DOWNGRADE bios from v2.40 to V2.10 ?
but it looks normal and as of yet i have not detected anything unusual.
maybe a toshiba official can help ?
but besides, any clue welcome.

the hdsetup tool of course reports the same version than the bios : 2.4
the notebook was one that has been standing as a demo in the shop for awhile, so it might have
been used a couple of times by the personal for demonstrations to customers.
so i repeat my question : how can there be a bios 2.4 when the latest offered by toshiba is 2.1 ?
IS BIOS 2.4 OK for QOSMIO X300-14P ?
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of course i expect that someone from toshiba at least from time to time reads and answers here.
this is the OFFICIAL toshiba forum on the official toshiba site, of course i expect them to read and answer here !
what kind of company is this, anyway ?
especially in cases like this, when users can obiously not help.
and it is in their OFFICIAL website,
i expect that they answer those questions.
it is their job. thats what support forums are for.
my question is still unanswered !
i am still waiting for an answer (for quite some time, now).

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