Satellite A500-17X - Not satisfied with it

Question

My toshiba A500-17X is the worst laptop I ever had!
for 2 reasons:
1: http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=185832#185832
2: I was doing an assigment earlier (using world and access) when my laptop froze and the blue screen of death appeared (if only like FEW months old)
This is my first toshiba laptop...and my last one for sure!

Answer 1

Hi
A friend of mine has an A500 satellite model and its running properly.
He said the games run properly since he use an latest graphic card driver downloaded from some different pages.
Furthermore the notebook could restart automatically due to the warmness of CPU or GPU. For that its necessary to check if the cooling ventilators are free of dust and running with best performance.
>was doing an assigment earlier (using world and access) when my laptop froze and the blue screen of death appeared (if only like FEW months old)
BSOD can happen always. In most cases it could be a software related issue but of course it could be also an hardware issue. If BSOD will always appear then you should get in contact with an local ASP.
>Fan problem was sovled after 6 months with a simple BIOS update, speaker noise exists and no support from Toshiba! When I wrote a mail to ASP, they told me just send back, but it's exist WITH ALL A500 so it's not a speciel problem!
I dont think the problem appears on all A500. As mentioned the A500 from my friend is running ok.
PS: I read in other thread that some people could solve an sound crackling issue changing the settings;
One guy wrote:
+If you don't want to mess with powermizer there is another way to do essentially the same thing through nvidia control panel,+
+go nvidia control panel -> advanced settings -> manage 3d settings -> program settings -> (select program you think is causing the problem, internet browsers were a good one for me) -> power management mode and change it to 'prefer maximum performance'.+
+If this does help post on the nvidia forum mentioned in my earlier post about powermizer.+
Greetings