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RE: Sleep Problems/Blue Screens - I'm SO frustrated! Please help!
I also bought the exact same model toshiba satellite A205-S4577 i got mine
from best buy in april 07 i havnt had too many problems with mine i have
started getting teh blue screen error message after its been in sleep or
hibernation and i go to turn it back on. and were my ether cable goes the
part that locks it in broke but it still works i did awhile back i had a few
problems with the typing some letters not showing up but that quit. Did you
ever figure out ur problems?
"Kcpirana" wrote:
> I'm posting this in a few places, so hopefully someone far smarter than I
> will run across it. I'm at my wits' end and I can't get any assistance from
> Microsoft or Toshiba on a two-week-old notebook! Here goes:
>
> 1) Two or three times, I've gotten a blue screen. The stop error message is
> pfn_list_corrupt. Vista shuts down and pretty much restarts itself
> normally. When the boot option menu comes up, it has normal start-up
> highlighted. In Control Panel>Problem Reports, this appears to be a device
> driver, but I can't find anything wrong! My printer works (Lexmark 7100
> network printer, not directly connected), which is my first suspect.
>
> 2) Sleep mode now appears to not even go into effect now. My little power
> light won't flash amber (which is how you tell your notebook is sleeping on
> this Toshiba), it just stays active, although the screen goes to black. So,
> I can't tell if I still have the problem of it not waking up still, because
> now it won't go to sleep!
>
> 3) This is a stupid thing, but I can't read "sign in" to rate or respond to
> these newsgroups in Windows Mail. I press the Sign In button, but it does
> nothing! So, I read the post (or create one as I'm doing now), I reply or
> hit send, and Windows Mail freezes! I have to use Task Manager to restart
> the program and then sometimes I'm all signed in. Once (only once) I had
> the pop-up box to sign into Microsoft communities come up, I logged in, the
> notebook thought a minute and then decided to give me yet another blue
> screen with the pfn code. I have no idea whether that's even related, but
> it's aggravating. I would like to be able to use Windows Mail in the way it
> appears to be intended. I'm going to C&P this before I try to send it,
> because Windows Mail is going to freeze up again and I'll lose this. (Maybe
> this is an easy fix and I'm an idiot? - When you read this, I will have
> frozen and restarted Windows Mail to get it here.)
>
> 4) I called Toshiba - they have NO idea except to do a system recovery
> (which they don't even say will fix the issue and seems to be pretty much
> their knee-jerk response to everything - the other "fix" was to just not use
> sleep!). But I've JUST gotten my files all back up to date, I don't have a
> good way of backing everything up, and I REALLY don't want to start from
> scratch again!
>
> 5) And I'm a little frightened to even try a system recovery, because even
> though I purchased this computer on 4/26/07, Microsoft's on-line help (which
> should be free for 90 days from purchase date) tells me my product ID for
> Vista isn't valid! I had a problem activating it from the get-go and had to
> call Microsoft and they gave me some other product ID number, which now they
> tell me is invalid?
>
> I'm using a brand-new Toshiba Satellite A205-S4577, 1 gb ram, and it came
> with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. I haven't installed much of anything,
> except Office 2007, iTunes (has worked), a Palm (not working, but did), and
> my network printer (working). Any help anyone can offer would be GREATLY
> appreciated!
>
>
I also bought the exact same model toshiba satellite A205-S4577 i got mine
from best buy in april 07 i havnt had too many problems with mine i have
started getting teh blue screen error message after its been in sleep or
hibernation and i go to turn it back on. and were my ether cable goes the
part that locks it in broke but it still works i did awhile back i had a few
problems with the typing some letters not showing up but that quit. Did you
ever figure out ur problems?
"Kcpirana" wrote:
> I'm posting this in a few places, so hopefully someone far smarter than I
> will run across it. I'm at my wits' end and I can't get any assistance from
> Microsoft or Toshiba on a two-week-old notebook! Here goes:
>
> 1) Two or three times, I've gotten a blue screen. The stop error message is
> pfn_list_corrupt. Vista shuts down and pretty much restarts itself
> normally. When the boot option menu comes up, it has normal start-up
> highlighted. In Control Panel>Problem Reports, this appears to be a device
> driver, but I can't find anything wrong! My printer works (Lexmark 7100
> network printer, not directly connected), which is my first suspect.
>
> 2) Sleep mode now appears to not even go into effect now. My little power
> light won't flash amber (which is how you tell your notebook is sleeping on
> this Toshiba), it just stays active, although the screen goes to black. So,
> I can't tell if I still have the problem of it not waking up still, because
> now it won't go to sleep!
>
> 3) This is a stupid thing, but I can't read "sign in" to rate or respond to
> these newsgroups in Windows Mail. I press the Sign In button, but it does
> nothing! So, I read the post (or create one as I'm doing now), I reply or
> hit send, and Windows Mail freezes! I have to use Task Manager to restart
> the program and then sometimes I'm all signed in. Once (only once) I had
> the pop-up box to sign into Microsoft communities come up, I logged in, the
> notebook thought a minute and then decided to give me yet another blue
> screen with the pfn code. I have no idea whether that's even related, but
> it's aggravating. I would like to be able to use Windows Mail in the way it
> appears to be intended. I'm going to C&P this before I try to send it,
> because Windows Mail is going to freeze up again and I'll lose this. (Maybe
> this is an easy fix and I'm an idiot? - When you read this, I will have
> frozen and restarted Windows Mail to get it here.)
>
> 4) I called Toshiba - they have NO idea except to do a system recovery
> (which they don't even say will fix the issue and seems to be pretty much
> their knee-jerk response to everything - the other "fix" was to just not use
> sleep!). But I've JUST gotten my files all back up to date, I don't have a
> good way of backing everything up, and I REALLY don't want to start from
> scratch again!
>
> 5) And I'm a little frightened to even try a system recovery, because even
> though I purchased this computer on 4/26/07, Microsoft's on-line help (which
> should be free for 90 days from purchase date) tells me my product ID for
> Vista isn't valid! I had a problem activating it from the get-go and had to
> call Microsoft and they gave me some other product ID number, which now they
> tell me is invalid?
>
> I'm using a brand-new Toshiba Satellite A205-S4577, 1 gb ram, and it came
> with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. I haven't installed much of anything,
> except Office 2007, iTunes (has worked), a Palm (not working, but did), and
> my network printer (working). Any help anyone can offer would be GREATLY
> appreciated!
>
>