Toshiba is a Japanese producer of electronics and semiconductors.
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toshiba hdd error: f3-f000-0018
My fiancées Toshiba Satellite computer had gotten a virus which won't allow her computer to start up past the windows flag. I used Toshiba recovery to reset it to factory defaults. After which I ...
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Toshiba bluetooth driver installation stalls at 5 bars
I am trying to install my bluetooth driver after having formatted my laptop but the instillation stalls to these two windows for over 30 minutes and still going on.
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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Laptop screen turns off after short period of time
My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L500 and the screen has started going off after a second or 2 of use. For the brief time that the screen is on everything is clear and displays perfectly. Restarting ...
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USB port malfuction
Recently, I manually shut down the computer while running SimCity 4 Deluxe. Upon booting, the computer froze up at "toshiba_acpi Toshiba Extras." I then added "acpi=off" into grub.cfg to allow me to ...
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Where can I legally download Windows 8 for my OEM product? [closed]
I have a Toshiba Satellite C850 - 1C1. It came pre-installed with Windows 8 64-bit and just like any other Windows 8 OEM product it does not have a product key I can use; or rather, the product key is ...
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WDC Green WD20EZRX IntelliPark and number of platters [closed]
Is there a reliable way to tell by looking at drive serial number other codes to determine whether this drive (2TB version, WD20EZRX) has 2 x 1TB platters instead of 3 x 667GB platters? I would ...
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Switching to SSD in Portege R830
I have a portege R830 - X3310. Unfortunately my HDD gave up and I am thinking of switching to a SSD. Does any one have any idea if a Corsair Force GS will fit? The SSD is a 2.5" disk. I tried ...
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Can an external backup drive became uninitialized on its own?
I have a brand new Toshiba 3Tb external that I used once to store by back-ups while I gave my computer a clean state, (after a couple years she was starting to lag.) After backing up, I tested the ...
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What drivers do I need to get the most out of my new laptop?
I have just bought a Toshiba Satellite L850-1VO.
The part no is PSKG6E.
I have done a clean install of windows 8 x64, but now I am stuck with no drivers installed.
I have located the website for ...
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Laptop is asking for password (which I never set), even when without hard-drive
One day my laptop got infected by a virus, and I cleaned all those suspected infected files with Avast! Antivirus. I didn't check what kind of files are cleaned, since there are hundreds of it.
Now I ...
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Toshiba, bluetooth, and corrupt tosbtAPI.dll
I cannot activate my bluetooth connection in my netbook.
An error comes up like missing or corrupt 'tosbtapi.dll'. How to handles this problem?
Many site offering the tosbtapi.dll, but I dont trust ...
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Toshiba Satellite plugged in not charging
I have a Toshiba Satellite that has vista installed on it. It's 3 years old and the battery lately hasn't been working very well. Recently though, I've had a problem of the battery indicator saying ...
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Toshiba Satellite battery indicator saying “plugged in, not charging”
My Toshiba Satellite with Windows Vista is a couple years old. The battery lately is completely shot. Even after charging for a long time, it barely lasts five minutes when you unplug it. I'm assuming ...
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Toshiba Satellite C655-S5132 laptop fails to boot on first few attempts
I have a Toshiba Satellite C655-S5132 laptop (Windows 7). If I leave it alone for a while and then try to boot it, it fails. The fan turns on and then gradually winds down to a stop. The display ...
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Toshiba Bluetooth Stack Pops up Windows Audio Settings Whenever Connecting a Headset [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Toshiba Bluetooth Stack Annoying Popup
I have a USB Bluetooth radio to connect my jawbone headset to my computer. I'm currently using the Toshiba Stack on Windows 8 ...
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DLNA streaming with MPEG encoding [closed]
I'm looking for a DLNA streaming software for windows which can stream and encode my videos(divx,xvid) to MPEG while streaming because my Toshiba 40xv733 only supports MPEG.
Is there any software ...
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Toshiba Bluetooth Stack Annoying Popup
I have a USB Bluetooth radio to connect my jawbone headset to my computer. I'm currently using the Toshiba Stack on Windows 8 Professional and it works fine.
I want to disable the popups that appear ...
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Windows 7 DVD Driver
I’m trying to fix a friend’s laptop. The DVD driver is corrupted, so the optical drive doesn’t even show up as an option in Windows Explorer.
Failed attempts so far…
Microsoft Update seems to ...
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wake up laptop when I plug in monitor
Do you know if there is an option to make your laptop wake from sleep/hibernation when you plug in a monitor? I have a windows 8 toshiba laptop, and I would like to be able to just take it out of my ...
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Toshiba Satelite A215 default output to VGA
My Toshiba laptop defaults output to VGA, so the LCD is blank and I can only use it either by connecting an external monitor, or using Arch Linux since Arch somehow overwrites that setting.
When I ...
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Windows 7 is unexplainably slow
I have a 3 month old Toshiba Satellite laptop with 4GB RAM, i5 processor and a normal HDD (not SSD).
I dual boot with Ubuntu and I use Windows sparingly. However, I noticed that it is painstakingly ...
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PGP Desktop Whole disk Encryption paused on a toshiba ultrabook z935
I have a Toshiba z930 Ultrabook with PGP Desktop installed for whole disk encryption. It installed correctly, and started encrypting but it stays paused. If I reboot, it shows me the PGP desktop ...
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toshiba satellite l755d screen black
My Toshiba Satellite L755D , laptop just "Black Screened". No Beep , No display on an external monitor either. I can hear the fan running and it trying to boot from DVD on startup.
I removed RAM and ...
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Which RAM is faster (or, is Crucial's Memory Advisor giving non-optimal advice)?
In general, if a PC's motherboard is only specified for RAM up to a given core speed x, will that PC be faster with:
RAM of latency y capable of running at a maximum core speed >x or
RAM of ...
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Can't find drivers for Toshiba C850 - P5010 [closed]
Edit: I am looking for Windows 7 64bit drivers
Well, I did find two links on toshiba's website
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU
This one is ...
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Toshiba Satellite A350D bios password
I was trying to remove the bios password(I knew it) through the bios. I ended up making the new password blank(?) by just hitting enter thinking this would disable it, not nothing works for the ...
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Laptop's power supply discharges the battery 10-20 seconds after unpluging from wall
Everyday after turning off the laptop (not before) I'm unplugging the power supply only from the wall, not from both wall and laptop. But it started to discharge the battery. After unplugging the ...
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Toshiba Satellite L630 broken after bios update
I have Toshiba Satellite L630, which has been broken. It had no more OS installed in it. All the disk partition were cleared into one single empty unformatted partition. So I begin to install windows ...
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Toshiba Satellite C665 Rebooting from Standby
I currently am working on a C665 with a strange issue. When the panel is closed the notebook will put itself to sleep in the usual way, and the power LED changes to the pulse to indicate that the ...
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How to use my computer as a Headset device for my phone with Bluetooth?
I want to extract the audio from my phone (the analog TV and FM/AM receiver mainly) and play it through my computer speakers. There is a headphone jack but it is of non-standard size (probably a ...
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Alternate (cooler) CPU than a Intel Celeron M 420 1.6GHz
I bought a "broke" Toshiba Satellite A105-S2101 laptop off ebay that would freeze on the bios loading screen, bought it and found out it was just a bad DVD drive, replaced it and all is well. Except ...
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Toshiba Satellite P505-S8950 - upgrade CPU?
I have a Toshiba Satellite P505-S8950 which has an Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 / 2.53 GHz CPU and would like to upgrade the CPU.
I have searched Google but have been unable to determine if this is ...
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Why is my Toshiba Satellite L675D laptop not connecting to my HD TV using an HDMI cord?
I'm having a problem connecting my Toshiba Satellite L675 laptop to my Samsung HD TV. I've done it before using an HDMI cord but now, for some odd reason, it's not connecting at all.
My computer ...
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Can a faulty battery cause a laptop to crash?
After replacing a blown out motherboard, my Toshiba Satellite C600 is still malfunctioning lately:
BSODs.
Distorted graphics, and freezes.
Sudden shutdowns.
After removing the battery and doing a ...
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Upgrading RAM on Ubuntu 12.04 caused major hardware failure
This is first time I am trying to upgrade the RAM on my Toshiba Satellite L650 Laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 64 Bit version.
After a little research about upgrading RAM I ordered a Kingston DDR3 module ...
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Using Toshiba 22EL833 as PC display through HDMI input
I had another Toshiba TV - 19SL738 - connected to this same PC and video card (GTX 8800) through DVI<->HDMI (DVI on PC side, HDMI on TV) before, that was working perfectly at it's native resolution ...
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Extracting Drivers from Disc
Soooo.. I clean-installed windows 7 ultimate on my Toshiba Satellite A130-ST1311 (old, I know). And it came with a recovery disk to reinstall windows vista. It has all the drivers I need, but I don't ...
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Scanning through the Network
Our office uses a Toshiba estudio2830c to scan to the network and to send and receive faxes.
Most days the scanning works correctly however there are some days when it takes almost hours for a staff ...
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Windows-7 laptop formatting and re-installation
My Toshiba laptop came preinstalled Windows-7 (64 bit) version purchased in July 2010. No setup disk came with the laptop, but there is a "Toshiba recovery media creator" utility. Now, I want to ...
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Is Intel Q9100e compatible with NBWAA LA-5821P motherboard?
I've tryed to replace old and slow CPU (Intel T4300) on my Toshiba L450-11Q laptop with new Intel Q9100e CPU.
WHen I've installed it and pressed Power button, the cooler started for 3 seconds and ...
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Can I install this Toshiba HDD in a MacBook?
The internal HDD in my white MacBook is broken. I have a spare Toshiba laptop HDD which I plan to install in the MacBook but when I compare the broken MacBook HDD (Hitachi brand) and the Toshiba HDD ...
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New RAM in Toshiba Portege R700 causes boot problems
I've installed 2x 4GB sticks of memory (DDR3 10666CL9) in my Toshiba Portege R700 (PT314U) and am having boot problems, which are resolved when I switch back to the original memory (2x 2GB) or one ...
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Laptop turns on then off after 9secs
I've a laptop here that when turned on powers off after about 9 secs (before video is initialized). I was thinking it was overheating BUT this is what's really odd: if I hold down a key on the ...
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how do I change the resolution on my windows 8 laptop?
I had the windows 8 consumer preview from when it came out until the new windows 8 Release preview came out a few days ago. I recently updated my computer and I noticed that my resolution went back ...
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Wifi that not connected after installed Ubuntu
I use Toshiba. My laptop just installed Ubuntu LTS 12.04. after the install, my Wifi is still good, a day later could not connect Wifi, but Wifi ON. then 2 days later Wifi is good, and then to the ...
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Laptop battery not working.
My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L640. If I remove the laptop charger, my laptop will instantly die, so I can only use the laptop whilst plugged in. Thanks for your help.
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Install Ubuntu, eth0 not detected?
I have installed Ubuntu laptop Toshiba Satellite L640?, and I had difficulty, that is how to enable network interfaces, eth0 was not detected when running ifconfig.
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Ubuntu on Toshiba A200 causes overheating
I'm trying to run Ubuntu on my Toshiba A200 computer and after a few minutes it's getting crashed and the computer restarts. I notice that the computer is overheating.
Does someone know this problem ...
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Windows 7 not starting correctly on Toshiba Satellite L640
I'm experiencing a problem with my Toshiba Satellite L640 running Windows 7. I initially experienced a blue screen and the computer restarted itself. When I attempted to reinstall Windows, the ...
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Toshiba Laptop blue screening
we have lot of laptop Toshiba which are blue screening.
I have rebuild the laptop, re-install GC drivers and remove wifi and netwrok drivers but still i keep getting blue screen on these laptops. the ...
