Satellite M70 not rebooting - HDD flash once

my m70 keeps freezing then having to shut down manually, then will not reboot, will flash on harddrive once and then nothing.

Try please to remove the battery and use just AC adaptor. Start the unit and check what happen. Can you enter BIOS settings?
Describe please what happen exactly.

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I use XP + Vista, first I updated my BIOS to 5.10 under VISTA,
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Hi
The FN buttons dont work on your notebook under Win XP because of the BIOS.
You have updated the BIOS which is designed especially for the Vista OS.
So you will be able to use the FN button in Vista but some single buttons will not work using the Win XP
There is also other BIOS (at this time 1.50) which was designed especially for the Win XP.
So if you are using both OS; XP and Vista, then you have to decide what OS has to support the FN buttons.
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I have FM2-A75MA-E35 with A10-5700.
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I have Satellite M70-159 and described issue is not known to me. If you are 100% sure that this strange issue started after you get it back from the service I recommend you to talk with technicians again.
Described behavior is not definitely normal. As far as I know BIOS update or drivers have no influence on it and for me it sounds as hardware malfunction.
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As far as I know the Satellite M70 was available with SATA HDDs and IDE HDDs. If you have a SATA HDD, you can use this HDD.
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I am using Satellite M 70 notebook, purchased about more than one year back and really like it ( Pentium M70, 512MB Ram, 40 GB HD). So far it has been without major issues.
The only problem now I face is that some times the screen for a second or a fraction of second. It happens randomly, once or twice in a day and the flutter is more prmonant in lower part of screen. Seems a minor issue but it irritates me as I think it is too early for a laptop to show such an issue and it might progress with time. What u thinks of it? Is it an issue with the graphics chip (it has Mobile Intel 915 GM), Motherboard or any other hardware? Does not seem to be a software issue to me.
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Hello aiglehawk
I have read your posting very carefully because I have Satellite M70-159 amost a year now and it is always very interesting to see what other M70 owners report about this notebook model.
Unfortunately here in forum is not possible to give you any precise diagnostic but I just want to write my comment about your posting. Maybe sounds strange but I will start with your latest sentence:
> Really I will be reluctant to buy a Toshiba next time due to these issues.
In my opinion this sentence is absolutely superfluous and I am pretty sure you will write the same if you have had any other non-Toshiba notebook. I can understand you but you know very well that if BMW produce 100 cars it can always happen that 5 of them have some fault.
Believe me my Satellite M70 is almost permanent on (day and night). I have get it from company where I work and I do not care about it at all. It runs and runs. I have tested all stuff you wrote in your posting and it works perfect. All power saver settings I have changed many times and I have never noticed something similar.
Yes you are right about service. I believe that you can not reproduce this but I am sure that you know very well that technician have different diagnostic tools for hardware checking. Using those tools they can find out if some hardware component is defective or not.
Because of that I recommend you to contact service. Let them check your notebook. Is the warranty still valid?
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Good luck my friend and please let me know about service results.

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Hi
In my opinion the case is clear. If you can install the notebook with a normal Microsoft installation disk and the HDD works properly in another computer its something wrong with the Toshiba recovery disk, maybe its scratched.
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I must express my overwhelming frustration with my satellite M70 laptop as I have it for more than a year now(warranty expired) and almost from the get go it had a problem in wich a blue screen appeared and the pc reboots...from the error report it is a problem with the graphics card and/or display driver.
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Please reply I'm desesperate and have no idea what to do

Hi Andrej and thanks for the reply
But the thing is I have already done that countless times...and the problem is still there...same old same old :(
I have tried seemingly everything...thats why I say its gotta be hardware :S
Having this in mind Id like to know if there is anything I can do(concerning hardware) without resorting to Toshiba service
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