{"id":964,"date":"2011-11-11T17:10:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T00:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/?p=964"},"modified":"2019-08-13T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T07:33:07","slug":"satellite-a665-poor-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/satellite-a665-poor-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite A665 Poor Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a huge fan of Toshiba systems and this is just one of the reasons – design that hasn’t been thought out or tested very well. We just finished repairs on a Satellite A665 system that suffers from some interesting design flaws.<\/p>\n

Here’s the system in question, innocent enough looking right?
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This is the battery compartment. It’s hard to see in the picture, but there is only a small, thin strip of plastic between the top of the battery compartment and the internal workings of the buttons on the other side (see next image).
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This is the other side of that compartment. Notice the volume up\/down buttons and other system buttons in this area?
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Long story short, if there is any debris in the battery compartment area or the battery is situated evenly slightly incorrect the volume up\/down buttons can get locked into a state of constant pressing. This system, upon boot, was stuck in an audio up\/down keystroke event that made it hard to type and produced a horrible buzzing noise in the operating system. We fixed this issue in our computer repair office here in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

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I’m not a huge fan of Toshiba systems and this is just one of the reasons – design that hasn’t been thought out or tested very well. We just finished repairs on a Satellite A665 system that suffers from some interesting design flaws. Here’s the system in question, innocent enough looking right?       […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[886,888,898,891,901,889,48,894,484,899,896,902,112,890,887,897,885,884,900,893,895,892],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events","tag-a665","tag-battery","tag-bott","tag-buttons","tag-buzzing","tag-compartment","tag-computer-repair","tag-down","tag-fixed","tag-keystroke","tag-locked","tag-noise","tag-phoenix","tag-plastic","tag-poor-design","tag-pressing","tag-satellite","tag-toshiba","tag-type","tag-up","tag-updown","tag-volume"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}