I just had a similar experience with a Toshiba Satellite T135D-S1324 (it is my wife's, and a refurb, so there is no warranty). I installed the BIOS update described here. The computer worked fine for 6 months before updating the BIOS. The update was supposed to respond to this
overheating problem. But there was no overheating. Within a few hours - presumably when the newly-installed BIOS detected "overheating" - the computer stopped working. Since it is out of warranty, Toshiba tells me to take it to Best Buy or some such thing, since it'll be cheaper than getting Toshiba to fix it. Seems to be that there could be a class action suit in there somewhere. Looks like I'm stuck buying a new computer because I installed a "critical" update.
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