Hi all had this laptop nearly 4 years, but its still under guarentee luckily i think, it seems to have some problems, and i was wondering if anyone could suggest ways to fix it.... or say if it would be better to send it back?
Its a Toshiba Satellite 5200-801, with a 2Ghz P4 and 512MB DDR Ram, also has a Geforce 4 Go 460 64MB.
The problems:
1) When watching movies, or playing games (Which it could do fine before) the cpu usage spikes to 100% and the video and audia becomes choppy, laggy etc. I tried blowing it clean with canned air, it helped a little but still used 100% after a while.
2) The hinges on the laptop gave a funny noise a while ago, and slamed down on my hands, they will stay up at a very funny angle but any thing past and they fall down, or backwards. The screen now does not line up with the base either, unless i push it into place, and sometimes the screen makes a banging noise when i lift it up to use.
3) Ocasionaly, the DVD drive will refuse to find a DVD, it will scan for about 5 mins then tell me there is no DVD in the drive.
4) The screen, has 3 Gray dots on it, one tiny, one a little bigger, and one a little longer, i cant clean them off?
5) If looking at grey, or white on the screen, it apears sort of crystaly, and weird to look at.
6) Ocasionaly a USB port will stop working, E.G if i have a USB modem pluged in, it will go Boop to say the device was disconected, and the Beep to say it was reconected, and i will have to reconect to the net, the other USB ports dont have that problem.
7) THe back speaker, on the left, of which the screen hinge goes into has come away a little, now this seems cosmetic so i am not bothered, however once the speaker started to work intermitantly, but i seem to have fixed this by pushing it about a little.
8) Ocasionaly, my hard drive will squeek at me with a seek noise, each time i minimize and maximise a window, formating did not cure this, however rebooting will stop it
Thanks for any advice,
Jcb33, Mr Gunn
Its a Toshiba Satellite 5200-801, with a 2Ghz P4 and 512MB DDR Ram, also has a Geforce 4 Go 460 64MB.
The problems:
1) When watching movies, or playing games (Which it could do fine before) the cpu usage spikes to 100% and the video and audia becomes choppy, laggy etc. I tried blowing it clean with canned air, it helped a little but still used 100% after a while.
2) The hinges on the laptop gave a funny noise a while ago, and slamed down on my hands, they will stay up at a very funny angle but any thing past and they fall down, or backwards. The screen now does not line up with the base either, unless i push it into place, and sometimes the screen makes a banging noise when i lift it up to use.
3) Ocasionaly, the DVD drive will refuse to find a DVD, it will scan for about 5 mins then tell me there is no DVD in the drive.
4) The screen, has 3 Gray dots on it, one tiny, one a little bigger, and one a little longer, i cant clean them off?
5) If looking at grey, or white on the screen, it apears sort of crystaly, and weird to look at.
6) Ocasionaly a USB port will stop working, E.G if i have a USB modem pluged in, it will go Boop to say the device was disconected, and the Beep to say it was reconected, and i will have to reconect to the net, the other USB ports dont have that problem.
7) THe back speaker, on the left, of which the screen hinge goes into has come away a little, now this seems cosmetic so i am not bothered, however once the speaker started to work intermitantly, but i seem to have fixed this by pushing it about a little.
8) Ocasionaly, my hard drive will squeek at me with a seek noise, each time i minimize and maximise a window, formating did not cure this, however rebooting will stop it
Thanks for any advice,
Jcb33, Mr Gunn
Back when i was a laptop nub i paid £2499.99 Just so i could play games.... oh how the prices have gone down since then i could get a laptop to play modern games for £900 
now