Satellite A660 won't turn on

My laptop arrived by mail about a week ago and it wouldn't turn on straight away. After leaving it plugged in for 2 minutes, we tried again and it still didn't work. We removed the battery and after about 7 minutes it would turn on.
Today, I went to turn my laptop on (first time in 2 days) and the power button came on, the charge was at full and it sounded like a fan had started, but then it would turn off straight away - the screen would not display anything.
After removing the battery, the power cable, trying different outlets, holding the button down etc etc, it wouldn't turn on...It wasn't until I turned the laptop upside down (screen parallel to the floor) and keyboard vertical in the air (I was looking at the serial number etc) for about 10 minutes (yes, I know that's a long time, but I was googling everything) and then it actually worked.
It leads me to believe that it was a loose cable or something to the power supply, and me moving it around like that allowed it to boot up.
My question is, should I address this issue (as it's done this before) with Toshiba or just leave it? I have a years warranty or something, but I don't want to fill up the hard drive with stuff only to find I have to have it replaced.
Any advice would be great - I don't know much about laptops.

>My question is, should I address this issue (as it's done this before) with Toshiba or just leave it?
I think you should firstly check if your BIOS version is up to date
If newer BIOS is available, update it.
Im not quite sure but possibly the BIOS update could solve this. If not, well, I would recommend addressing the issue to Toshiba ASP since this is not a common notebook behavior.

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