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okay so i have been gone for a bit and i have been working with the people over at toshiba trying to resolve my issue, let me just start off by saying toshiba's customer support is horrible and every person i talked to first started me off with "your model is not under warranty" and when i said i just wanted to ask a few questions to see if i could get my system running they reluctantly helped after first trying to convince me that it was a windows error and not toshiba i finally got someone willing to help after a couple calls and some serious hold time, so as for the issue that arose from our troubleshooting this is what i got for an answer. Apparently since my display driver was last updated in 09 thats because that is the last time toshiba updated it not when i DL'ed it, and he also said that 1.9 is the most recent bios for my pc even though they have a 2.2 that came up when i typed in my machine he said that it wasn't for my pc and that it was a mistake that it came up. After i told him about our trouble shooting and that the problem was not a windows related issue he finally referred me to a toshiba repair center about 40 mins from my house and told me that it was most likely a hardware related issue (which i already assumed from the beginning) so like i said it is a decent drive (in a car) to get there and they want an arm and a leg to troubleshoot, so the reason i came back here is to ask a question or two since you seem to be the most knowledgeable and caring of the any of the people i have encountered
so 1 is there a way i can trouble shoot hardware without having extra hardware lying around (beside RAM which we tested with memtest and which is the only extra hardware i have lying around) i was already thinking of updating the gpu b4 any of these problems arose. or am i just stuck paying almost half of what i paid for the computer to have it troubleshot
and 2 do u have any suggestions on hardware i might want to invest in as you seem to know your stuff