The restore that never ends....Tecra A4

This is a continuing Saga...it's been a little over a month, and the owner/user (not me) is about to give up & buy another laptop to replace this one. Previous exchanges on this community are here:
http://laptopforums.toshiba.com/t5/Windows-Vista-XP-Win7-RC/HDD-Fact-Image-Restore-Hangs-at-end-2nd-...
http://laptopforums.toshiba.com/t5/General-Technology/Could-my-recovery-media-be-damaged-Would-new-m...
I had some good input by Techman & Defender, then for the last month have been struggling with Customer Service to get the disks I ordered. Long story, but in the end, they reversed charges to my CC...and by the time they got things to work in their system....I ended up getting 3 restore disks...the last one delivered today. Apparently they are switching over their parts order system to a new one, and my order was caught in the fray of that adventure.
So now after doing many, many restores, I've come full circle and have exactly the same issues I had with the disks I created from the hidden hdd partition...where the "Applying Final Configuration" splashscreen is up, Toshiba Assist is running per the Toshiba restore script, and the system freezes. There is no further disk activity, and the machine will only respond to a hard shutdown, by holding the power key. (did I mention how much I hate suspended fabric keys over hard micro keys on laptops?)
I'm certain there is no activity on the drive when this freezes, as the drive activity light works fine on this machine, and when things freeze, there is never any drive activity shown, heard, or felt.
The machine does not appear to be overheating, as the fan comes on every so often, but once things freeze up, the fan runs at a low constant speed, seemingly appropriate since the processor is doing little or nothing during the freeze.
* Machine never seems to complete setup. Runs "Toshiba America Systems" setup routine 'successfully' once, then runs setup two. Then runs setup three? and goes into freeze mode.
* Any time machine starts in Windows, it's freezes after about 1 or two minutes.
* Freeze occurs regardless of mouse movement OR when machine is not touched.
* Can only regain control of machine via hard power off.
* Can run the machine in safe mode. There is no freeze up.
* Can run the machine from a dos disk or BartPE. There is no freeze. Can keep it up for days without issue in these modes.
* Have formatted entire volume from P/E, attempting to force out any disk issues.
* Have run chkdsk /r from with no apparent change or fix
* Have replaced memory in machine with no change in result.
* Have run Fujitsu HDD utility from dos boot. Passed both quick & extensive tests.
* Have run MemTest, completing 4 complete cycles on memory with no failures
* Have run msconfig from safe mode, initiating minimal startup. When machine restarts in 'normal' Windows with minimal support, it still freezes after a minute or so.
* Even Chkdsk, when run from normal startup stalls at 26/27 percent...about the 1 to 2 minutes time.
* HOWEVER... Chkdsk is fine when run from BartPE disk.... chkdsk c: /r
Any help or suggestion would be GREATLY appreciated...I've never been so throughly flummoxed by a small piece of hardware...
SetiRich
...Lost in a restore cycle...
Solved!
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My only other suggestion is to check the memory on this unit. Toshiba's are picky about getting good memory. So my guess is this unit might have been upgraded. Cehck the specs to see how much it comes with and see if there is more in it then that. Remember some memory maybe on the bottom and some may be under the keyboard.
I suspose a BIOS update might be worth it. (I didn't have time to look at the old threads...)
Otherwise ASP
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