Members IFBSenior Posted January 16, 2012 Members Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) I have an old Toshiba Sattelite that is giving me fits. I used the restore disks on it and now it keeps rebooting itself down at will. Any ideas or is it time to buy a new one? Edited January 16, 2012 by IFBSenior Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JerryNumbers Posted January 16, 2012 Members Share Posted January 16, 2012 When you ran the restore disc, did it make it just as it was when you 1st got this computer, or did it do a repair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IFBSenior Posted January 17, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 17, 2012 I restored as new. I tried doing it again but it won't stay on long enough to run the disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anon Posted January 17, 2012 Members Share Posted January 17, 2012 They say 5 years is average lifespan for a computer or laptop...so if its longer than that...you probably need a new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JerryNumbers Posted January 17, 2012 Members Share Posted January 17, 2012 I restored as new. I tried doing it again but it won't stay on long enough to run the disk I'm no geek, but sounds like you've got an internal problem with your computer. Unless you can fix it your self, & or have a friend that can do it cheaply, a new one may be the best move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IFBSenior Posted January 17, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 17, 2012 well it is over ten years old so it's probably time, it's a shame, it was a nice computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1Timothy115 Posted January 18, 2012 Members Share Posted January 18, 2012 Do you know how to access the BIOS and set the computer to boot from either floppy drive or CDROM. If so, set the computer to boot from one of these whichever supports your OEM disks. Then, create a formatting disk on someone elses PC and reformat the harddrive of your laptop. After you reformat the harddrive do another install of your OEM disks. You will still have to reinstall any apps which you use. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JerryNumbers Posted January 18, 2012 Members Share Posted January 18, 2012 well it is over ten years old so it's probably time, it's a shame, it was a nice computer I understand that, late last year I bought a new one. My old one kept blowing power supplies, after the third one I finally gave up buying this one, Windows 7 Professional,. I did put another power supply in my old one & have it for back up. Its really. I'm slowly getting use to Windows 7, yet I still like the old Windows XP best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IFBSenior Posted January 18, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 18, 2012 I tried restoring the laptop again and it didn't do any good. it was about twenty years old anyway so I purchased a new one today. I too don't really care for win 7 but then I didn't like win 98 or xp either. I hate getting use to new things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Invicta Posted January 20, 2012 Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 I have two PCs running XP (One at Church) which both gave signs of age, not booting up and making strange noises. They both had Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 on them I had tried putting the 2012 version of one and it crashed and gave error messages and I was unable to boot it up. Eventually I managed to get it to run and took off 2011 and installed Kaspersky Internet Security 2012, since then it has behaved perfectly. I deleted Kaspersky from the one at church and that has also run OK since. I run Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 on one PC and two laptops, one belonging to church, without any trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JerryNumbers Posted January 20, 2012 Members Share Posted January 20, 2012 On the computers with XP, did they have service pack 3? If not many of the anti-virus will not work properly on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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