ravenbsp
04-10-2007, 08:18 AM
Hi All. I have a Tecra M4 with 1.5 gb ram. I love the computer and it has run flawlessly for over a year. Lately it has been hanging just prior to the Toshiba splash screen if the system is hot (ie doing a restart after installing an update). If I then wait 5 minutes it will then boot past the splash screen and start windows.
The problem has worsened over the last week and now even if I can get it to boot, it sometimes won't even load windows or if windows loads it hangs maybe 10-15 minutes. Doing anything CPU intensive will tend to cause it to freeze almost immediately.
Things that I have tried:
1. I swapped out the memory (1gb and 512mb sticks), trying each individually and in different slots.
2. I opened up the thing to check that the CPU was seated correctly and foound that the genius who put the thing together applied themal paste just to the left of the actual core.
3. I used Spinrite to check the hard drive, which was fine.
4. I booted into knoppix. This seemed more stable.
5. I tried booting using only the battery, nothing.
6. It hangs 100% of the time when trying to enter safemode.
7. Flashed the bios to latest version
8. Reformatted drive and re-installed windows
9. I sacrificed a chicken to it, nothing but McNuggets.
It sounds like a CPU problem to me. Replacements seem to run from $70.00 to $200.00. I'm willing to try a new cpu, but why the huge price difference?
Any insight would be deeply apreciated.
The problem has worsened over the last week and now even if I can get it to boot, it sometimes won't even load windows or if windows loads it hangs maybe 10-15 minutes. Doing anything CPU intensive will tend to cause it to freeze almost immediately.
Things that I have tried:
1. I swapped out the memory (1gb and 512mb sticks), trying each individually and in different slots.
2. I opened up the thing to check that the CPU was seated correctly and foound that the genius who put the thing together applied themal paste just to the left of the actual core.
3. I used Spinrite to check the hard drive, which was fine.
4. I booted into knoppix. This seemed more stable.
5. I tried booting using only the battery, nothing.
6. It hangs 100% of the time when trying to enter safemode.
7. Flashed the bios to latest version
8. Reformatted drive and re-installed windows
9. I sacrificed a chicken to it, nothing but McNuggets.
It sounds like a CPU problem to me. Replacements seem to run from $70.00 to $200.00. I'm willing to try a new cpu, but why the huge price difference?
Any insight would be deeply apreciated.