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A while back I had a Toshiba laptop and one day while I was on it, it got a blue screen and died. Then wouldn't ever boot back up. Later I took it to Bestbuy where I got it, and they said the entire motherboard has fried as a result of extreame overheating, and that the only way to fix it would be to replace the motherboard. Well as a recent project I decided I would take it to a computer place and see what they thought. After doing a free diagnostic on it, they called and told me that nothing was physically wrong with the laptop itself, but that it had some viruses and it needed to be formated and have windows reinstalled. Before I had even called them, I messed with it myself, and the first time I turned it on in a year, it booted right up with everything the way I left it (this was a year after Bestbuy looked at it). Then I decided to do a recovery and see what happened. Right in the middle of the formatting, I got the blue screen and it crashed. I later tried formatting it with a Segate formatting tool that I found on the Bestbuy geeksquad disk they left in my computer. After around 8 hours it finished, and I tried to install windows. After trying it several times, I decided it wouldn't work because I had gotten the blue screen every time. I then tried running a full system test with the Bestbuy disk, and it failed every test it gave, CPU, Memory, ect. But now the computer place I took it to calls me, and says that it just has some viruses and needs to be formatted and have the OS reinstalled. They want to charge me $70 to do it. I can easily do that, the only reason I took it to them is because I thought it was hardware failure. But as I said, when I tried it, it didn't work. So I'm out of ideas. Let me know if anyone has a suggestion.
Thanks
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