But the Notebook ran fine afterwards, without the battery.

Only when I put the battery in once more (this time Notebook was off and disconnected) it started. I got the impression, that somehow it became slower, even when the power chord was connected once again.

After 20 minutes the BIOS and Windows said, that battery was at 0%, but I disabled the auto-hibernate and see there, the notebook ran 25 more minutes on DC.

I then reloaded the battery completeley and used the tool “Battery eater” to unload the battery on heavy usage.

The funny thing was, that the tool showed, that the battery was still OK:

Device Name PA3395U
Manufacture TOSHIBA
Serial # SEW 04 34 A SY
Unique ID 3658QTOSHIBAPA3395U
Chemistry Lithium Ion
Temperature Termal Control Not Present
Designed Capacity 59200mWh
Full Charged Capacity 59200mWh
Designed Voltage 14,4V
Current Voltage 16,573V
Manufacture Date 0/0/0
Cycles Count 0
Cells count 4
Force charge support Not Supported
Force discharge support Not Supported

The battery is 5 years old. I’m using the original power cable.

The notebook was again running longer than shown, on the heavy usage benchmark.

I recharged again.

That was the last test I could run, after that the notebook just went off without error message, whenever I started the test run with Battery Eater.

After that it even crashed when booting windows.After letting it cool down I could log in again, but as soon as the processor got tuned up to 100% it shut off again. No Error Message, no event log.
The problems occur on AC without battery, as well as on battery+AC and battery alone.

Now I have a serious problem (overheating?), NB shuts off even when booting into ubuntu from CD.
I’ve just cleaned the cooling block from the outside with a vacuum cleaner.
Maybe I damaged the fan by turning in passively. (I’ve done that before though and never had a problem)
Maybe all the testing destroyed something and now there is false voltage or something like that. Maybe it’s only the fan, that got hurt.

Now I’ve disassembled the Notebook to look for some heat problems (but the heatspred doesn’t seem to be that clogged). What else should I check / look for?

I’ve installed the latest ATI catalyst mobile ver. 9.02 and updatet the BISO to 2.0 lately. I thought that maybe the graphics driver was the problem for overheating, but when I installed the one provided by toshiba, the screen got black after the boot logo.

I’m also using a clean install of windows, not the recovery and lately heard about these “toshiba common modules”. Where can I find those for my model? They are not in the driver section for my Notebook.

Before I’ve taken out the battery while running, I’ve had it already two times, that my notebookjust went completely off, but under different circumstances.
One time when I just touched the back USB ports with a USB Plug, the other time when I unplugged my bluetooth stick (din’t savely remove it).
There was no Bluescreen or message of any kind, not even in the event log after booting up again or that fatal system error box when you boot up after a system error.
Just a complete power failure. I also tried to redo the scenario, but it didn’t work.
I cleaned this back – USB port it with a vacuum cleaner to remove the dust and took a good look at it, but couldn’t see any difference to the side port.
I also couldn’t determine any loose or unfirm parts at all.
What bothers me a little bit is that some time ago I had the notebook an my lap and forgot that a memory stick was plugged in at the rear. The stick got pushed upwards and got slightly damaged.
Still working though.

Oh yes, and I also have that “wobbly” power plug problem from time to time.

Notebook Specs:

Product : Satellite M30X-102, Version : PSA72E-008010GR

Mainboard:

NorthBridge : Intel i855GME
SouthBridge : 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge
Mainboard Model: Toshiba EAL20

Win XP Home SP3, all updates.

I hope that information is useable. It would be great if you would bring some light into this. It would be great if I got the Notebook running again.

Thank you very much for your effort.

Fabian

Anish, good that you are out of the woods at least for the time being. If you do find a solution to high temps, let me know. I will get around to have a second look sometime in a monthor so.

This is one of the all time worst laptops EVER. All of them have problems with overheating and they have horrible batteries. I got this laptop for free because the person was sick of it crashing. Don;t waste your money on it anymore.

If the fan is working, I suggest you look at the cleaning and coolant problems mentioned in the posts in this thread.

For me, the problem is not completely gone away (I intend to go for changing the coolant once again when I have time). My laptop now starts at about 28C but if any programs are run, it shoots up to 70/71C then dropping down sometimes to 62 or so. In between it falls back again to 28C when the activity goes down.

Can’t explain why though!!

good luck

I have been running the machine for about 4 hours now but despite the seemingly high temperature, I have not seen the warning that I was getting before “problem with the cooling system”.

Just wondering what is happening here. Did I put too thin layer of the cooling paste? Will a thicker layer help?