Comments on: Do you have a Toshiba Satellite M30X, M35X, A70 or A75 notebook? It’s broken and out of warranty? Can you get a free repair from Toshiba?

By: Igor

Igor — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:50:00 +0000

I have the solution for the non booting Toshiba m35 that I wrote almost a year ago. This tutorial is applicable to laptops that shut down without any warning, laptops that turn on only sometimes, and laptops that simply refuse to turn on. So if your laptop does not turn on, it goes completely dead within a few minutes after bootup, here’s the link to the tutorial. The repair takes about an hour, there’s no need of replacing any parts, reinstalling any software or any other thing. The only investment in repairing your laptop with this tutorial is your time. Basically, you can repair your laptop within the hour, without spending any money for any parts or software.
http://imateski.blogspot.com/2008/08/toshiba-satellite-m35x-motherboard.html

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:49:14 +0000

does all toshiba satellite numbers match in laptops of the same model????

By: Irene

Irene — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:14:05 +0000

Wow this is amazing … I live in Canada, so this extended warranty would not have applied to me anyway, but my A70 croaked pretty much as described. I went through two power supplies and eventually the lights only came on and the HD wouldn’t boot. Purchased the A70 Jan 2005 and it croaked Feb 2006. I didn’t purchase the extended warranty, and Toshiba wouldn’t extend it – told me I need a new motherboard and it would cost me close to $400 to have it fixed at a repair facility. So I basically wrote off this crappy machine, and vowed to never by a Toshiba computer or ANYTHING again.

And I haven’t.

But I love finding this old page – I never realized this was such a HUGE issue, and frankly, I again am disappointed with Toshiba for not honoring my warranty, ESPECIALLY when this was a known defect.

By: Pradip

Pradip — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:45:28 +0000

Its a pity. I bought my fist laptop, a A75 from CompUSA when I was in the US visiting my sons. Within the year it started overheating and would shut down. By the time I took it to the Toshiba service, my warranty had run out and they charged me. This was repeated every 6- 8 months or so. The guys at Toshiba service told me that this model was outdated after 2 years they were not interested in servicing it. To make the laptop work, I would sit in front of the airconditioner to cool my laptop in close to freezing temperatures, till the run time was down to 15 mins or less. Frustrated, I searched online and came up with details picturized instructions for cleaning my A75 at http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/ToshibaA75/satA75_1.htm and bingo! here it is working again. When I opened it, I found that the toshiba serivice guys had not put in 4 screws while servicing my laptop. I seriously think Toshiba should see this. And unless they do something about it, I am not buying Toshiba again and will warn all on my mailing list to beware of Toshiba.! My sincerest thanks to the person who made that website to service T laptops.

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:24:52 +0000

Had our A-75 supposedly fixed and, what do you know, we’re having the same problems again. Worst part, it’s out of warranty, so Toshiba says we’re out of luck. If anyone knows of any class-action lawsuits, I’d be interested in getting in on it.

By: ALVIN GIESBRECHT

ALVIN GIESBRECHT — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:05:05 +0000

I HAD SHUTDOWN PROBLEMS AND OTHER PROBLEMS DESCRIBED HERE BUT TOSHIBA SAID THAT DUE TO MY WARRANTY PERIOD ALMOST UP 2 WEEKS TO GO SAID THEY COULD NOT WARRANY UNIT AND OBVIIOULSLY LIED TO ME NOW THAT I KNOW THIS IM GONNA TRY GOIN AFTER THEM AND MAYBE GET FIXED OR REPLACED

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:31:45 +0000

All Toshiba laptops need to be sent to me. I am a qualified laptop mortician. I clean them up so that they are all pretty and then submit them to their graves so that they can lay in piece, rather than in pieces all over the world being kicked aside like litter.

On a more serious note. I will gladly take any toshiba laptop that anyone wants to donate to me. I am a computer science major and have a lot of skill in rebuilding computers in general. I recently recovered a m35x-s109 toshiba and it has both the power jack problem as well as another chip with the pins coming loose. I have fixed both.

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:07:40 +0000

Kay,

I’ve got too much stuff on my laptop

You can transfer all personal data from the laptop hard drive to any other computer as I explained in this post.

By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:26:51 +0000

I have an M35X I bought in early December 2004. I used it pretty hard for a couple of years, and then it started screwing up. It didn’t bother to shut down, it just shut off. Then it wouldn’t start up properly, or if it did, it shut off in the middle of the process and started to screw Windows up. So after looking around online, I found out about that indeed infamous power jack problem. So my aunt took it down for me, got it fixed under the extended warranty, and then in about four months, (after the warranty expired, OF COURSE) it started having the same problem again.

Now, I live near the lake in OH, and I’ve got too much stuff on my laptop to stick it in the mail to Columbus for some idiot to grab it for spare parts and never see it again. I can see it now: “Hello, Toshiba? I sent my laptop in to you, tracking number blah-blah-blah two weeks ago. Did you get it?” “What laptop? We never received that, no.” “Hello, UPS?” “No, that package was never registered with us.” And then suddenly all my private information is in some freak’s hands for the wrecking. Nope, I’m not mailing it.

And after learning how much it would cost to fix it, I’m in the market for a new laptop. I don’t have that kind of money to throw away on a piece of crap that’ll break again in another six months.

I’ve heard both good and bad things about Dell, but the good outweighs the bad, and since several close friends own and appreciate their Dells, I think I’m going there next. Toshiba will not have my business again if I can help it, and the software problems I’ve encountered with Compaqs is just too annoying. The only bad thing about the Dell lappy I want: they don’t put XP on it anymore.

My sympathies to anyone else out there with these headaches.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:16:08 +0000

I’m a little disappointed with my M35X-S3112, since it has gotten a little senile and can’t find the DVD/CD drive. I have sent it in for repairs once, for a defective hard drive, which I had covered under extended warranty. I bought it for about a $1000 well over 2 years ago, and I’m satisfied. I don’t expect laptops to last more than 2 years, so I’ve kind of taken a Buddhist philosophy toward it and now that I’m past two years, I’m positive about it. But this thing does have some weird mojo – and a bad mobo.