Nice thought to make sure robdos, but I think skipcox is on the right track. However, it doesn't hurt to try different things to ensure. El-trucha, I too had a problem with 1 outlet in our computer room. It turned out the outlet I used to be on was was connected to the sump pump circuit. Every time the sump pump turned on (which is quite often in my house), my monitor would go dim. I'm pretty sure skipcox has you pointed in the right direction, but I would probably try robdos suggestion too. When all else fails beat the $%!* out of it!!!

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a very interesting problem. from his original post "It even happens when I unplug it off the wall" would exclude a home circuit overloading problem. if what he means is that he is using only battery power.

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SkipCox; I dont think this is an older home...in my room I have 6 PC's with a monitor 4 each one, a scanner, a TV, a DSL modem, a router, and some more things connected 2 the wall...:P robdos; I will as soon as I find one!! ;) angrymen2001; Ooohh...so that explains why each time I turn on one of my PC's monitor the other PC's monitor does a weird thing on the screen...:P tom529; Hmm...yeah, thats weird...but...I dont think it's a temperature either, my room is actually hotter than my kitchen...:P What else could it b?? :( Thanx all of u!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

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does it have an infrared port that may be recieving a stray random signal from somthing in the kitchen? stove or microwave? do you live near a powerplant or near highpower lines?

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Can we assume it is using a wi-fi connection to a router or access point in your room? You gave us no clue (other than a reference to Blaster which could still be your problem). If a wi-fi internet connection is being used or enabled, then there are two good possibilities. First, there could be a problem with the wi-fi adapter in the laptop that is overloading or overheating due to the increase in power usage as you move away from the access point. As you move away, it may be increasing its Transmit power to keep a good link, to the point that it overheats or overloads and kills the system. Second, you don't have ALL of the Windows Security updates installed and you are infected with some version of a Blaster type worm. (Please do several online virus scans and enable your built-in firewall.) When you are near your access point, its built-in firewall is protecting you from "hits" from the Internet shutting down your system. However, when you move to other rooms, your lack of proper wi-fi access security is allowing your system to "connect to a stronger signal" or other access point that does not have a firewall blocking "hits" from the Internet getting through to your system. (Like your neighbors?)

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tom529; "...does it have an infrared port that may be recieving a stray random signal from somthing in the kitchen?..." Infrared port...do u mean my wireless adapter?? "...do you live near a powerplant or near highpower lines?..." I don't know...:( JackG; "...Can we assume it is using a wi-fi connection to a router or access point in your room?..." Yeah, I got a wireless router in my room. "...there could be a problem with the wi-fi adapter in the laptop that is overloading or overheating..." Hmm...I didnt know it overheated when I moved away from the router...:( I think that's the problem...:( how do I fix it?? "...you don't have ALL of the Windows Security updates installed..." I got SP2. "...when you move to other rooms, your lack of proper wi-fi access security is allowing your system to..." No, it has a program that came with it (dunno if it's from Windows or Toshiba) that lets u select which wi-fi network u want to connect to...I'm always connected to the network "EL-TRUCHA", and the only place that I can connect to another access point is in my parent's bedroom... Hmm...I think it's the overheating problem... How could I fix this?? Thanx everyone!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

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Search Google for 'Everest Home Edition' and install it. It will access any temperature sensors on your computer, so get it up and running, and walk around the house with your laptop and see if the temperature changes significantly. If it custs off without the temperature changing too much, then it's not a heat problem. If you are near a high-power line or a power station and it encroaches on your house enough to kill your computer, you need to find out about it. Your brain is a very sensitive electrically controlled system too...

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Hmm...I went to the kitchen and the temperature was the same. I have 2 different temperatures under "Temperatures" in Computer>Sensor on the menu at the left in Everest: TOSHIBA MK6025GAS/a TOSHIBA MK6025GAS/b Well, actually when I was still in my room, the second temperature (/b) was 40 degrees C, then I went to the kitchen and stood there for like 2 minutes, still 40 degrees... Then I come back to the room and it's still 40 degrees, but then it changed to 39, then to 38, and then it kept changing from 38 to 40...(right now it's 38) Hmm...those 2 temperatures are the same, just with a different letter at the end, and both have hard drive icons on them...should I have more temperatures for more things or no?? "...Your brain is a very sensitive electrically controlled system too..." I feel smart...:P Thanx!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

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Now I just realized something... When I'm in my room, I usually have my laptop on my desk, and it's in a position where the bottom-left corner is hanging off it...(the desk) Now I brought it to my parents' room and...TIK...then I tried running Symantec's W32.Blaster.Worm removal tool in safe mode, TIK... Then, I dont know why, I had my laptop with the back part (top, where the screen is...) was in the bed and the bottom-right corner in my leg (so that the bottom-left isn't touching anything...) and nothing is happening since then...hmm...maybe an important part is near there that gets too hot when it touches something?? The fans are in the top-right corner. Note 1: Symantec's utility said it didnt find Blaster Worm. Note 2: While I was running it, I unplugged it from the wall and turned off the wi-fi NIC. Thanx!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

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I think the temperature sensors you are looking at are in the hard-drive. Put the laptop on a breadboard or chopping board or a big coffee-table book so that it is sitting flat on the surface and the fans and the ventilation aren't going to change when you move it around. If the computer behaves itself in all the various rooms now, you know that it was a specific issue with the surface it was sitting on. As a rule, never operate anything electrical sitting on a soft or upholstered surface (unless it's a vacuum cleaner!). It will definitely cause overheating. I know that dippy woman in Sex and the City sits her Mac on the bed, but it's just not a good idea.

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Hmm...yeah, maybe that's it!! :D But umm...I put it on the table while I was in the kitchen...maybe the table cover (or however u call it)??" it was kinda...umm...not wet, umm...kinda "swetty"... Maybe that's it?? Thanx!! ;) El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

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The table has a cover on it? Consider yourself slapped on the back of the head in the manner of the Three Stooges. The fan sucks air in through the bottom of the laptop and out through the back or side. You put the laptop on a table cover and it will suck the cover up and block the fan's inlet. Hence overheating. Table covers, bedclothes, soft furnishings, all unsuitable surfaces for a modern laptop. Funnily enough, I suppose I would have to include your lap in that list too. Is that why they call them mobiles or notebooks these days?

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Ohh...ok!! XD I'm a n00b with laptops...the 1st one I had was a Mac PowerBook 520c and it had the fan on the back, not on the bottom...:P Much thanx for the info!! ;) :D El-Trucha http://www.masterleito.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.homeftp.net hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

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