soybeanto wrote:
> I recently purchased a Toshiba Portégé with Windows Vista Home, not more
> than three weeks ago. I used it at home and it worked perfectly fine.
>
> But, when I take it to lectures/outside of home with me, there have
> been more than several times when I turn it on and only get a blank
> screen with a white cursor which eventually shows the message:
> "Operating System Cannot Be Found".
>
> However, I will turn it off and on again and it will work perfectly
> normally again. Sometimes it will take one, two or three tries to get it
> to the normal boot up procedures, but I'm worried one day it will just
> not work any more.
>
> This is a new laptop and I was wondering if something is wrong with the
> HD or OS system. I checked each time to see if I had a diskette or CD
> left inside but I don't.
>
> Thanks for any and all advise in advance!
>
> I just had to purchase a new laptop because my HD kept dying on me and
> I'm really frustrated with these issues at the moment.
>
>
I'd vote for the hard drive. But also run a memory tester.
I had a hard-drive based mp3 player that wouldn't
boot when cold. Let it warm up for a minute and it worked fine.
I have a laptop with a bad memory location when it's cold.
I swapped the memory simms to place the bad bit at the top of memory.
By the time the bit gets accessed, it's working. That took me a LONG
time to diagnose. By the time the memory tester got to that bit
it was no longer busted.
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