Satellite A215 constantly over-heats

I've had my laptop for about 15 months, and it has recently started overheating and shutting down after only 10-15 minutes. The fans on the laptop are pretty much worn out, but i have the laptop on a cooling stand. The strange thing is tha my laptop only overheats like this in my dorm room. When i have it at home, it's fine. In both situations, it's placed on a desk, with the same positions and everything. any ideas as to how i could solve this?

My neighbor in next sub-division has same unit, load of the unit and its internal devices drives how often the fan will operate, not unusual for the condition of fan operation that you describe, plus the ambient temeprature used in, is the humidity a factor-very much so!, cool pad in use?, check fan and exhaust port free of debris, even power adapter. Factory tests to ensure within specs for general operation. Do you have several external devices attached. Check your STARTUP and learn how many programs are initially running and decrease those not needed upon bootup. Check the hard drive free space and learn what is ''free'' available.Each

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This is a user forum and is not Apple. I would definitely recommend that you stop using your iPhone and take it to be checked.

Laptop over heating then shutting down

Model; Satellite L355-S7812
I've hade this computer two years. It started over heating then shutting down soon after I purchased it. It use to take 4-5 hours before it overheated now its less than an hour. What can be the problem?

Probably the fans. They may need to be replaced. The Qosmio I purchased in 2005 had the same problem. I replaced the fans twice over the 5 years I used it. Fan issues are known problems with certain models, especially those that have high CPU usage. By the way, a Toshiba technician told me never to place the laptop directly on the lap or on a soft service like a bed. The fans can't ventilate properly, especially if they are located on the bottom of the computer. Since I have done that, the fans have worked fine.

Vista services hanging on Satellite A215-S4767

Satellite A215-S4767 Vista Ultimate w SP1. 4Gb Memory
Strange problems starting to happen over the weekend.
Apps fail to load in taskbar; printer drivers, antivirus apps, etc. Did a boot with rescue CD and cleared out some malware but trouble persists.
Also Vista SP update failed to install three times and finally gave up on it. This was a couple of days prior so I don't think its related.
Unable to connect to any network wireless or landline. Seems to hang when I try to run "Network and sharing center". Many services fail to start.
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Most of the apps that start automatically are not. Printer driver, antivirus app,
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Cannot run system restore; seems to hang. When I try to run it again it says it is already running but I can't see anything.
Everything seems to function in Safe mode.
Any help.

hi telhack,
to me it sounds like a corrupted os.
install or recover the system again.
if many apps and services are not loaded there is a serious problem...
check your hdd for errors first!
check memory! deinstall the half of it for installation!
btw: you cant upgrade to win7 with a damaged system!
hope you made your recovery disks before...
if you have spyware deleted this can also cause your system to hang - in my point of view your only solution is to reinstall....

Flash Player using high CPU constantly and heating system

Hi I am in India ... from last few months I am noticing that Flash Player is using too much CPU when ever I run IE, Explorer or opera ... when I disable Flash Player then IE and opera work on normal CPU ... I have uninstalled Chrome since I was unable to disable flash player on it ... I have 2nd generation i5 .. 3gb ram ... dedicated 1gb nvidia graphics card ... 750 Gb hdd ... win7 home premium 64 bit ... I am able to easily play Crysis 2 ... halo ... far cry ... wolfenstein 2009 and many more intense graphic games on my laptop without over heating it ... but flash player causes excessive CPU constant use and system to over heat if I watch a complete movie on you tube ... any other compatible player available plz do tell ..... rgds

Hi ... I use admin account only to install new software or games ... for all other uses I log in as an ordinary account
But even when logged in with admin account the same prb persists ... cause of this flash player prb I have even stopped playing games on FB & Zynga ...
For this flash player problem I even took it to acer service center and since I have extended service warranty the engineers there ran acomplete check on ram, hdd, graphic card and they also did a complete fresh install of win 7 home premium 64 bit edition. They even completely serviced it, cleaned it and applied new thermal paste ... but even they were baffled that my system can stand up to high intensity graphic games running from HDD or DVD rom or USB pen drive but if I try to run graphic flash player games for long ie castleville or watch a long movie on you tube then flash player can single handedly cause CPU usage to be constantly high leading to system getting heated up.
Guess will just have to be content without flash ... but some sites require flash player to be enabled and therein lies the problem
rgds

6380E over heating problem

Well it seems the cpu fan keeps over heating.Ive got the pc alert 4 running constantly and I only keep it so cool for a little while.but if I run windows media player for music/videos or even play games it heats up.My questions are what would be the best fan to replace that with?is there a plug size and if so what size and if thats not the problem what could be causing the over heating.
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also read:
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AND
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How can I turn my MacBook Air on after an over-heat-shutdown?

I was using my Mac today and it suddenly froze and the date on the top went funny. I tried pressing buttons on the keyboard and nothing seemed to work. So I pressed and held the power button down and it turned off. Then I tried turning it back on but, it won't. The white status light on the bottom side of the computer becomes bright and then starts blinking with an alarm sound. Im not sure of the reason for that sudden freeze. I think its cuz of over heating, cuz I left it turned on since last evening. (MacBook Air, Intel Core 2 Duo, OSX Lion)

As BobTheFisherman already said, it is impossible to say until you find out just what was damaged. If enough coffee got inside it, it could well be the logic board and every other piece of circuitry inside is fried. Or it could be less damaged and repairable. But you really need someone to open it up, disassemble it and find out just what was shorted out and how extensive the damage is.
I would forewarn you that you may be looking at having to replace the whole machine, in a worst case scenario.

Battery Purging and Over heating Phone!

WHAT?!! I have assumed that my LG Revolution spontaneously purging the entire battery charge at once then over heating and shutting down was a hardware issue! Now I find that it is the result of yet ANOTHER OS SOFTWARE upgrade issue?! OMG are you kidding me?!! I have been PLAGUED with problems since I was forced to upgrade my android OS to 2.3.6 through Verizon! I am ready to make ANY change I have to escape this plague!! I PAY WAY TOO MUCH MONEY for android smart phones and premium service through a so called 'premium' provider to have to put up with economy freakin performance Verizon!!!
I am especially disappointed in Verizon since I took the phone all the way to their coorporate store 5 months ago and all they did was scratch their heads! They tried to sell me a new battery which also immediately commenced to over heat; so of course the next course of action was to try and sell me a NEW PHONE!
I've been sitting here with a DEAD VERIZON phone all day AGAIN trying to rescucitate it!! ****, that **!

Thank you Verizon; you're right. Buying a new phone is the fix! I bought a brand new LG Spectrum at the Verrizon store yesterday and my old LG Revolution immediately began to work perfectly again. That was the fix. Of course....
You think this is messed up? It just gets weirder. Before going to bed last night I took my new LG Spectrum off a 4 hour charge because it was full. It slept all night. When I checked it in the morning it had one missed call and 6 emails; that's it. The battery charge however was completely on EMPTY! OMG!!?? What the....? Yesterday I was rather puzzled by how exceptionally warm/hot it felt while on charge. The charger plug also felt the same. It's on charge right now using the supplied charger but I changed it to a different outlet. It's still very warm/hot. I'm befungled!! I live in a 1/2 million $ condo packed with properly working electronics' so it's certainly not a source problem.
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My new not-so smartphone phone, less than 24 hours old, is already fouled.
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Attached below is a photo showing the EKG of the entire life of my NEW phone. 1 day and 7 hours. Hmph? And I am already in the forums. Anyone know what the record is?

I have done absalutely nothing to my 4g apple ipod touch, and it over heats, won't hold a charge, and the front camera will not work. I bought this brand new in december, and i've barely used it. I've tried restarting it and everything, what should i do?

I have done absalutely nothing to my 4g apple ipod touch, and it over heats, won't hold a charge, and the front camera will not work. I bought this brand new in december, and i've barely used it. I've tried restarting it and everything, I honestly think this is out raging because i spend over $200 on this. To have for music and instagram. I use it about an hour a day, but i've only been using it for about 3 months although i've had it since December. Any suggestions that may help me?

Try:
- A reset. Nothing is lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory settings/new iPod
If still problem make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.

Blue screen of death on Toshiba Satellite A215-S742 System Unit

i got the blue screen of death on my laptop. whenever i turn on my laptop, it loads up until the login page. then the blue screen of death appears and my laptop restarts and repeats. i have to do a hard shutdown. i can go into safe mode but i can do a system recovery (there are no recovery dates). even when i go into recovery mode, the blue screen of death appears after about 30min to an hour. i've tried updating the bios but it didn't work. i also tried using bootable cds with rescue programs but the cds dont boot (maybe im booting them the wrong way). what other ways are there to try to fix my laptop. please help!!!!!

Satellite A215-S7422
We need to know the Stop code on the blue screen. If there is a file name mentioned, we want that too.
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Over heating on charge and it is no longer showing anything on the screen

My iPhone 5 is over heating on charge and it is no longer showing anything on the screen. I was using it when the screen went white and it hasn't worked since. I have tried to both restart it and to restore it. as the screen doesn't not work it is hard to tell the condition of the phone. However it occasionally makes the lock noise when pushing the lock button and also occasionally vibrates when operating the side switch. I can not leave it plugged in on charge as it gets very hot and it is no longer recognised in iTunes unless i put it in recovery mode.
Has anyone else has this problem or can recommend a solution. I bought it second hard a while ago so it is not under any warranty.
Thank you

Sounds like the battery has become unstable
Take it to an Apple store Genius bar for evaluation Suggest you do not attempt to charge any more
at worse Apple may offer an Out of Warranty exchange device identical to donor
In UK price over the counter is £209

My iPod touch 5th generation had white screened an it won't let me rest it by holding down the home button an the power button for ten seconds I've pulled it in to iTunes an its not being detected what can i do as its starting to over heat?

my iPod touch 5th generation had white screened an it won't let me rest it by holding down the home button an the power button for ten seconds I've pulled it in to iTunes an its not being detected what can i do as its starting to over heat?

If you can't get it to shut down or restart when holding down the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons and you can't get it recognized in iTunes to restore it, the iPod may have suffered a hardware failure and will need to go to Apple for service. Someone else here may have additional suggestions, though.
There is no "fifth generation" iPod touch, by the way, just for the sake of clarity; not yet, anyway.
Regards.

Need little Windows XP help for Satellite A215-S5849

Hi,
I have a notebook Toshiba Satellite A215-S5849 which came with Windows Vista home premium.
Some time ago, I installed Windows XP SP3 and I also installed some drivers which i found here:
[Page from where I downloaded drivers, click|http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp]
I had to select model A210 coz there is no Satellite A215 available (but its probably simmilar, coz on my included Vista CD with drivers it also says its for A210/A215)
Main problem is... is there any simple way to get all XP drivers for A215... [Thats an other page, where I searched drivers for exactly my notebook and WIN XP, its many for vista. Select to filter for XP... not a lot of drivers for me id say, click |http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modItemList.jsp?moid=1998646&rpn=PSAFGU&ct=D L&BV_SessionID=@@@@1886836112.1220191695@@@@&BV_En gineID=cccfadefdejeidmcgfkceghdgngdgnn.0 ]
I have this little problems id like to solve:
1) Fn F5 doesnt work... I have 2 monitors and I cant use Fn F5 hotkey... I downloaded the driver... and other Fn keys work... but not F5... I've searched the forum and web and found something that I should have a "display devices change utility" installed, but this is only available for older notebooks (Ive searched, but i found only old driver for this). How do I make Fn F5 work in Win XP on A215?
2) Also in my Device manager I have three "Base System Device" undentified as "Other devices". Is this ok... or do i need some drivers or something?
3) And I have a question about this utility: [ link here, click|http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp?soid=1903653&moid=1998646&rpn= PSAFGU&BV_SessionID=@@@@0768822790.1220188011@@@@& BV_EngineID=cccfadefdejeidmcgfkceghdgngdgnn.0&ct=D L&all_docs=false]
Would this install all the available drivers for the notebook? If not, what does it do, maybe update?
4) And also... the multimedia keys... is it possible to select play/pause, stop, next, prev buttons for other program than windows media player. Id like to run those keys on winamp, ive downloaded a plugin for winamp, and it did worked on Vista, but not on XP... in Toshiba controls utility I can only sellect programs to start with Internet button and CD/DVD button. Ive read its not possible, but it worked when I installed the plugin on Vista.
Thank you for reading this and help.
Just in case I added drivers that I installed below. Dont really need to read this I think, but i add...
Drives that i installed:
Hotkey Utility, Toshiba
Common Module, Toshiba
Controls, Toshiba
Display Driver, ATI
Power Saver, Toshiba
Sound Driver, Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
SD Utilities
Wireless Lan Client Manager, Atheros
Touch Pad Driver, Synaptics
Processor driver, AMD
atheros wlan driver
Camera Software, Chicony
The drivers available were pretty straightforward , coz there is only one available for LAN, audio, Hotkeys etc. So I had not much choice. I also checked for which hardware they were made and from wihich manifacturer they are (I found the right ones... for example, realtek drivers for my realtek audio device...)

> I had to select model A210 coz there is no Satellite A215 available (but its probably similar, coz on my included Vista CD with drivers it also says its for A210/A215)
The A215 is a US notebook series and you usually you should use the Toshiba US driver page in order to get all compatible XP drivers.
There is no guarantee that the Toshiba XP drivers from the Toshiba European driver page would work correctly on the Toshiba US notebook.
Regarding the point;
1) You are right. The display device change utility controls the FN+F5 key combination and also the Hotkey Utility make the FN+F5 combination working.
This tool is available for some A210 series like the PSAFGE series. But it does not work on all A210/A215 series.
2) This could be a card reader. Check if its already installed. But note; after the XP installation you will still have yellow exclamation marks in device manager because some hardware will be only supported by Windows Vista. Therefore there is no Windows XP driver.
3) In my opinion the Toshiba Software Upgrades for Windows Vista/XP reminds about some new available software updates which were released on the Toshiba page US page.
4) I have the same issue and I think there is no way to change this in XP.
The Toshiba controls Utility for XP is simply different as the version for Vista and in my eyes there is nothing to do.
Regards

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reacently am having huge problem on my 2009 mac book pro 15.4 inch, the machine battery got swallow and was replace,the hard disk got damage and was replace with seagate,the memory became default and also replace,the original isntallation disk got corrupted and a friend gave me his own for installation,after the installation the machine can takes longer time in booting and after booting it cause over heating,
well what might cause the over heating and also slow in booting,thus hard to start on,my last option is to forward it to apple store for fixing excessieve heating and booting problems and general service as it is causeing me greatly
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[email protected]
if no respond the machine will be forward to apple store for general service

Exactly what model MacBook Pro do you have?
Many MBP's have two graphic processors (gpu's) and if you are using the dedicated graphics processor, your MBP will heat up a lot more than when the built-in graphics processor is in use. For example, the current non-Retina MBP's have both a built-in Intel HD 4000 graphics processor and a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics processor.
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No, it's not normal.
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