ianhiseman

Had a batch of 30 of these delivered in July last year, was september by the time most of them were actually allocated and used. Since then we've had to send 3 back for losing VGA output capability, 1 for keyboard failure, 2 for PSU failure, and one because it just died completely. The A200's in my opinion are just as bad. Firstly, they only seem to ship with Vista, which the hardware doesn't handle very well (they are unbelievably slow). Second, a lot of them don't come out of hibernation so you have to force them to power off. Third, if you power them on with an ethernet cable connected they often don't even boot. Fourth, they have a habit of 'losing' the ethernet adapter completely. Sometimes you'll boot the machine and the ethernet adapter is misisng from device manager, you restart and it will be there again (and you'll have to go through 'add new hardware') We've been using toshibas for years, and apart from the occasional PSU failure we haven't had much trouble. But these recent batches have just been one drama after another. I think we will be looking into HPs in the future!

Yeah, I kind of figured that was possibly the case. Although I tried gently pressurising the socket in several directions to try and make a connection if the joint is broken, to no avail though Think that one will have to go back to PCWB. Aye, both laptops were working fine one day then not the next. I tried the first two on both. Although I didn't check the resolution, my laptop is set to 1400 x 1050 and worked fine on both projectors, so I'll rule that out.

I have 2 Toshiba Sat Pro A120 laptops here and they've both developed a similar problem with projectors. The one doesn't seem to have any VGA output at all, I've tried every display setting I can find, updated drivers and different cables. I tested the projector on my laptop and it's fine. I've tried the A120 on other projectors and it doesn't work at all. It doesn't even display the boot-up screens, so I reckon it's a hardware issue...Any thoughts on that? The second one is a bit more of a puzzle. It doesn't display on a specific projector (the one the teacher uses most often). As far as I can see there's nothing wrong with the settings, and when I took it to a different projector it works fine. My laptop also works fine on the said projector. It appears the projector and laptop just don't get along! Any ideas? Ta