On Fri, 15 May 2009 07:23:34 +1000, Bob Larter
wrote:

prc1 wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 00:02:02 +1000, Bob Larter
wrote:

prc1 wrote:
[Please don't top-post!]
Yes, the AC plug LED illuminates when AC is plugged in, and
extinguishes when disconnected. I checked my performance settings in
the utility, and for AC power, settings were for maximum performance.
Did you make sure that you checked the *Toshiba* power management
utility, rather than the Control-Panel one? Try twiddling the settings &
re-saving them, just to be sure that they haven't been scrambled.


Bob--

Yep, tried that. No change.
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Weird. I've got to say that it doesn't look even slightly like a
hardware fault. I think it's going to turn out to be a software problem
of some kind. You could eliminate/confirm software by booting the laptop
from a Linux "Live Boot" CDROM, & seeing if the problem goes away.

Bob--

I just tried loading an Ubuntu 8.1 live CD, then attempting the
download. D/L speed was about 14K/second over wired Ethernet (slow!)
and started bogging down at about the 30MB mark on a 140-odd MB
download. It finally locked up and stopped downloading about twenty
minutes (and a few MB) later. The machine itself, however, would still
respond to mouse clicks, opening other windows, et cetera.
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