Toshiba N205 problem come back again!

I bought Toshiba N205/N311 a couple years ago. I experienced a problem when I installed supplemental language, but I could found the solution in a community site and finally overcame the problem.

Recently, the machine doesn't work properly. I couldn't turn it on. I decide to purchase Mac Book Air for my wife and go to a computer repair shop to fix the machine. As a result of their check-up, this machine has no problem....

I came home and face the same problem. I can't turn it on!

I searched the same problem in internet and could find the solution. It seems the previous BIOS version has some problems. I update the version from 1.2o to 2.10, hopefully I can get away from the problem. Here is the site. If you hit the similar problem, please try it. It works.

Re: NB205 won't turn on properly - OFFICIAL TOSHIBA TECH SUPPORT SOLUTION

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10-07-2011 06:12 AM

I had similar problems as have been described here for a NB205 purchased in 2009 . Thanks to everyone for the info. Pressing the power switch would cause the hard drive to spin for about 15 seconds, then nothing. Tried removing the battery and AC power, holding the power switch as suggested and rebooting without battery and only AC power, no luck. After a couple of tries, I started to consider the freezer, refrigerator trick.

I had also read one or two posts about updating the BIOS. Had to try to get the machine going again so in the freezer it went. 10 minutes later, pulled it out and it started up no problem. Went to http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp?nav=Download

and chose the correct software update and installed it as instructed. Very easy to do and did not require a lot of technical skills. Since then I have tried many different situations, such as leaving the computer on for an hour, powering down and restarting it, letting it go into hibernation awakening it, taking it off ac and restarting it on battery alone, etc. and it seems to be working fine.

Is it possible that there was a BIOS problem that made the motherboard heat up forcing the BIOS to abort the startup process?

Anyway it seems to be working with out having to place it in the freezer everytime like some of you were doing and I don't have to try any of the g-spot techniques that others have tried. If you have similar problems and changing the BIOS helps, let me know.