Hi,
I have been doing some work on a Toshiba Satellite 1805 S204 laptop. My friend bought it used off of Craigslist and I went to check it w/ her and it seemed to be perfectly fine. The guy had it running off the battery at the time. She got it back to my house and it was fine until the battery went down. She plugged it in and suddenly the screen started going off and on. First I thought, maybe a short in the adapter. But I plugged it into a monitor and it worked fine. Well, I had noticed that she had opened the laptop screen back pretty far after she plugged it in. So I took apart the display and reseated the connections. Display then worked fine. But it was freezing up. The guy had left a lot of old files the recycling bin so I put in a fresh install of XP and reinstalled her other software. It worked fine but a little slow and I figured that was because it was older and smaller. She took it home for 2 days and the display started flashing off and on again. So she brought it back to me. I plugged the monitor back in and it was flickering too but not as bad as the laptop screen. So I thought bad video card. But it was totally freezing up again. I ran a virus scan but didn't come up w/ anything. Now I am stumped. Bad video card or hard drive? It has 1GB of Ram so that shouldn't be a problem. But on the Crucial.com scan it said that the max memory for this laptop is 512mb. If this guy installed too much ram, could that be causing the problems? I would really like to hear some input on this. Thanks!
Lisa
I have been doing some work on a Toshiba Satellite 1805 S204 laptop. My friend bought it used off of Craigslist and I went to check it w/ her and it seemed to be perfectly fine. The guy had it running off the battery at the time. She got it back to my house and it was fine until the battery went down. She plugged it in and suddenly the screen started going off and on. First I thought, maybe a short in the adapter. But I plugged it into a monitor and it worked fine. Well, I had noticed that she had opened the laptop screen back pretty far after she plugged it in. So I took apart the display and reseated the connections. Display then worked fine. But it was freezing up. The guy had left a lot of old files the recycling bin so I put in a fresh install of XP and reinstalled her other software. It worked fine but a little slow and I figured that was because it was older and smaller. She took it home for 2 days and the display started flashing off and on again. So she brought it back to me. I plugged the monitor back in and it was flickering too but not as bad as the laptop screen. So I thought bad video card. But it was totally freezing up again. I ran a virus scan but didn't come up w/ anything. Now I am stumped. Bad video card or hard drive? It has 1GB of Ram so that shouldn't be a problem. But on the Crucial.com scan it said that the max memory for this laptop is 512mb. If this guy installed too much ram, could that be causing the problems? I would really like to hear some input on this. Thanks!
Lisa
