Toshiba P505-8935

[senchire]

Hello guys, got this one in few days ago.
It has the notorious hd3200, while the reflow went fine, I've one another issue.
This little fella came with ZM ultra 74 cpu unit, putting it back in gives me a big nope as it won't even turn on (turns on and off in cycle's)
Then I dig one ZM 72 and put it in, it works give me screen but frezzes from time to time.
Then I went with the sempron, and the laptop works perfectly fine (sempron won't accept more then 2gigs of ram).

[dj_ricoh]

Re: Toshiba P505-8935

check the caps under.

check the coils that goes to CPU.

the board it's tired,old,used and i think some caps are going bad.

i saw this with intel and i lower the cpu from i5 to i3 after.

tough it never came back its still weird.

[senchire]

Re: Toshiba P505-8935

I've left the sempron in it.

Yea could be, the reflow could only fasten up things.

What is more weird is the ram for sempron it boots up, passes memtest but if I try to load either linux from cd or system from hdd I get artifacts and the laptop frezzes (putting only 2gigs be it either x1 2gb or 2x1gb it works perfectly fine. The ZM 72 sometimes get fully booted with 2gig and 4gig works for few mins and passes out, it could maybe be that the hd3200 is playing a tricky game with me.)

Anyhow I gave the full report (since the laptop came to me only for fixing the GPU unit), and gave it back to customer if the laptop makes trouble again I'll replace the hd3200 with a 2013+ version and will change the capacitors.