Extension of memory - Portege M300

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• Internal memory Portege 7200

  Hello

  the internal memory of the portege 7200 will serve if I add an extension of memory?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Yes, the internal memory will be used also. So, you can spend a maximum of 320 MB.
  These are the modules of memory (SDRAM):
  32 MB PA3003U Rev 1
  64 MB PA3004U Rev 1
  128 MB PA3005U rev.
  128 MB PA3005U Rev 2
  256 MB PA3006UK (KINGSTON) rev.
  256 MB PA3051U - 1NME Rev 1

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• Portege M300 - unable to Hibernate or standby - by.

  Hello

  I have a very strange problem with my 2.5 year old Portege M300. For some time, I can not hibernate or put it in stand-by mode. Everything goes as it should, "going to stand by" in windows appears and matrices of computers, hdd led blinks every 10 seconds and nothing happens even if wait for hours.

  It's the same with hibernation. He also sometimes happends this computer dies in a similar way during regular employment.
  It almost looks like the hard drive no longer works. I did a few tests of basic hdd and it seems that everything is ok.

  You have any ideas what could be the reason?

  Concerning
  Blazej

  Hello

  When did you reinstall the OS?

  Eventually he s question as a BONE I mean it possible s that your OS is confused upward and therefore some functions don't work properly

  On the other hand a hardware problem (HARD drive, memory) would be also possible.
  But first if would be interesting to know if the laptop would serve after recovering.

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• The battery life on Portege M300

  Hello

  Wonder how long your batterys is last on your Portege M300? Mine lasts about 4-4, 5 h using a 'normal '.

  What is the difference in the life of the battery between Salvation and the standard battery battery capacity?

  Hello

  Simple answer: Hi The capacity batteries run longer. But you should only use original Toshiba batteries which are developed and designed for this device. Other batteries may damage the unit!

  There are several steps to follow to ensure that you get maximum performance of the battery:
  Batteries come in a discharged condition and must be charged before use. It is recommended that you charge and discharge the battery again two to four times to allow it to reach its maximum rated capacity.
  Keep the battery healthy by fully charge and then fully it unloads at least once every two to three weeks. Exceptions to the rule are Li-ion batteries which do not suffer from the memory effect.
  To get the maximum performance of the battery, optimize mobile power management features before using

  I found this useful site with lot of information about batteries:
  http://www.batterymart.com/battery_faq.php
  Pleas check that side.

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• Portege M300 & Dock display probs

  I have a Portege M300 in a Port Replicator III with keyboard, mouse, network and external screen, but cannot automatically do the output to the external screen after being away with the laptop. I have to lift the lid on the laptop, login and him then use the Fn + F5 util to switch to the external display only. If I turned off the laptop but do not remove the Port Replicator and then power save it keeps in memory the output settings and Ext screen very well.

  Can anyone help?

  Steven.

  Hello

  I don t see display problems. The fact is that the laptop can't switch on the external screen after unplugging the external monitor.
  The external monitor must connect to the laptop.

• Portege M300: Creating dualboot (two time Windows XP Pro)

  Hello

  just curious, if you have experience with the creation of dual-boot Windows XP on M300. (The reason is that I need second OS to start immediately if one goes down, what happened to me).

  I failed to create stable systems. There is no problem to install separately on 2 partitions (I am aware that the BIOS has limit of 128 GB limit, so that they are 12 and 221 GB large, on the 250 GB drive). But after a couple of reboots, second partition starts to hang on the blue screen, or said "Missing Hal.dll" and so on.

  I reinstalled like 15 times, tried different configurations, modified boot.ini, code mbr, windows, partitions NTFS or FAT32, managers start Recovery console, recover from Toshiba CD, installed since I386 with the windows key, but the problem is that second installation of windows finally just 2 months maximum. And then - «lack \system32\DRIVERS\psi.sys, missing \system32\DRIVERS\system missing \system\DRIVERS\hal.dll...» »

  Any suggestion is welcome.

  Hello

  AFAIK the Portege M300 supports IDE ATA 6 HDD interface.
  Since this interface supports 48-bit LBA, you should be able to serve a larger sizes of 250 GB HARD drive.

  In any case, have you tried to create a small partition and reinstall the OS?
  Select this check box.

  Also I discovered that this laptop supports an internal memory.
  Looks like there are 256 MB internal memory...

  However, I searched and bit for similar problems and the error messages like:
  missing hal.dll missing \system32\DRIVERS\system or missing \system32\DRIVERS\psi.sys is mainly related to a hardware problem. might be a faulty HARD drive or defective memory causes questions too.

  I think of areas of defective HARD drive or something like that...

• Portege M300: Format SD card - 1 GB instead of 2 GB problem

  Hello

  I used the "SD memory card Format" preinstalled on my Portege M300 laptop utility to format a 2 GB SD card (in accordance with the recommendation of Toshiba). The operation was succsesful, but the card cannot be read (he seems to have a RAW file system). In addition, try to put a FAT or FAT32 partition using the windows format utility results in partition of 1 GB instead of 2 GB!

  The card had a 2 GB FAT partition and has worked flawlessly before using the Toshiba utility. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Can I do to restore the original capacity is the card?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Are you sure it's a SD and MMC card as one not another, for example at 100%?
  The Toshiba utility supports only SD cards!
  How format you the SD card?
  As far as I know, there are two different format options:
  Quick format - only deletes the directory structure
  Full size SD card, everything will be deleted
  This utility formats SD to the SD format memory card.

  The other possibility is that you have used the Toshiba SD memory Boot utility
  It is a utility that can create a map of SD memory on a startup disk. As far as I know that use the RAW file system.

• Is it possible to upgrade RAM in Portege M300

  Is it possible to increase the RAM in Portege M300 laptop?

  Hello

  Yes, it is possible.

  Especially this oldie came with 512 MB (2 x 256 MB) of RAM installed.
  It should be possible to extend the RAM 1024 MB (2 x 512 MB)

  I think that details could be found in the user manual that you can download on the Toshiba page:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/

• Portege M300-101 - How to access the recovery partition?

  Hello

  I have a laptop Portege M300-101 model PPM30E-00G019SP
  I have problems and need to re install the original operating system.
  There is a 2.5 MB partition where the laptop recovery system.

  But I have no way to access it.
  In addition to the documentation that there is software to access this partition, but is not installed.

  Could someone guide me and help?
  Thank you
  Jorge

  Hello

  If I remember well, you can install WXP again using two different methods:
  -Restoration of created media recovery do you have created following the advice in the manuals?
  -Restoration of the drive HARD recovery on page 69 you can find detailed instructions how to proceed.

  You wrote: there is a program to access this partition but is not installed.
  What program do you mean exactly?

• Portege M300 - Ubuntu, bootmgr error

  Hi guys,.

  I hope you can help, I spent 2 days reading similar posts, but nothing seems to work.

  I installed Ubuntu on an external hard drive (using my Vista machine). Can I boot Ubuntu from my Vista machine without any problem.

  However, I now want to use this hard drive Ubuntu in my new NetBook (for me). (Toshiba, Portege, M300). However when I install my Ubuntu HD in this machine I get the infamous error "bootmgr is missing". I REALLY hate this error now.

  So I did my research and give EACH of them thinking that I should use my Vista recovery DVDs for this problem. Why the hell do I need to use a Vista CD when it comes to pure Ubuntu installation?

  Can someone give me some ideas? Computers laptop Toshiba require Bootmgr (i.e. an installation of windows?)

  Please PLEASE help,
  Marc

  PS thanks in advance...

  You don't need a special boot manager, Linux should start very well after a successful installation.

  Did you delete all partitions on the HARD disk before you install Linux?

  It seems that the Windows boot sector is still installed.

• Portege M300: Is the protection of HARD drive only for the brand of Toshiba drives?

  Hello

  I am trying to upgrade my Portege M300 with a hard drive bigger, as seen on the Portege forum, I posted the thread after that two hard drives from samsung does not similarly, shortly after the installation of the new.

  I just want to know if the protection of Toshiba HARD drive utility is simply made for Toshiba hdd or if it can work on any other brands of hard drives of brand. As I say, I want to upgrade a 60 GB to 160 GB and 2 new hard drive failed. I've since updated my bios to the latest version and I also consider not to install this hard drive protection feature, just in case where it will cause problems once more with my 3rd HDD replacement of same nature.

  I appreciate any thoughts on this.
  Thank you very much
  C

  Hello

  Usually it s any manufacturer is.
  If the HARD disk supports the CHIP so it should be possible to use this HARD drive.
  The HARD disk protection tool verifies the parameters of the HARD disk.
  But the settings are configured by HDD manufacture then it might be possible that the HARD disk will not work if the tool would not choose the settings correctly.

• Help Portege M300 (OS) recovery required

  Hi, I had a Portege M300 who served me well as a student unforunately that gave up the hard drive. I have now bought a replacement drive and had hoped to run a restore cd but I cant find it (maybe I never had one for that.

  Can someone help me out here?

  Otherwise it seems that I have to buy an operating system for which will cost even more money

  Hello

  It s unplausible that no restore cd shipped with your machine. Your machine was not one of these glorious Vista/Xp machines with a HARD drive recovery.
  Thus, you can find better the CD because the only choice you have is

  -to pay for a new recovery by having an authorized partner
  -to pay for a Windows XP tablet edition and download all the drivers
  -pay nothing and try to work with linux
  -to pay nothing because you have found the CD

  So you can see your selection and there is not a lot. Take a handful of chance and prey that you will find the CD, otherwise, you will pay.

  SRY mate...
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• Portege M300-101 - every 30 min I get a BSOD

  I have a Portege M300-101 (Windows XP) and every 30 minutes I comes up with a blue screen with a text about 1 sec so I can't read it, then restarts and happen in 30 minutes

  Hello!

  It's not easy to say what are the causes of the problem, but as said Akuma, test the RAM with Memtest86.
  Download the image, burn it to a disc and start from it.

  Automatic restart, you can also disable in Windows.
  My computer-properties-Advanced online online => startup and recovery settings => remove the mark to restart automatically.

  Sometimes, this problem is caused by the HARD drive. You can test with the Test Drive for physical fitness.
  http://www.HitachiGST.com/HDD/support/download.htm#DFT

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• Portege M300 - how to install driver LAN

  Hello

  I got a new hard drive put in my Portege M300 and managed to get the drivers all released on except the lan and a modem.
  I found the drivers here and make them, but which file do I use to install the application? ...
  I have one that says "PRO network driver uninstaller connections" but nothing obvious for amd installation... no files for directions...

  Any help appreciated.

  Thank you

  How to install the LAN driver?
  It is very easy, you can install it in the Device Manager.

  First of all, you need the correct LAN driver.
  You can find the Portege M300 on the Toshiba drivers European page driver-> * Archives *.

  After the LAN driver has been downloaded, you must unzip this package.
  Then go to Device Manager, select the unknown device (NIC) in the network adapters, select install or update the driver and follow the instructions on the screen.

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• Portege M300 - question: How can I format the HARD drive?

  Hello

  I saw Toshiba Portege M300 and try to format my laptop. When I try to use the CD to boot (DVD release) at the start, but I have the "CD/DVD" option, it s not poster not options 'formatting of disks', instead it goes to the login window. I have windows XP OS in my laptop.

  I don't know why this problem is coming. Please let me know the possibility of fixing this issue, or the option in the form of my laptop without recovery DVD.

  Thanks in advance for your time and reply.

  Thank you
  Saran

  Hello

  Maybe the internal CD/DVD drive cannot handle the recovery disc
  There are several reasons for this issue could be a dirty laser or lens something wrong with the disc of recovery or other reason

  You are able to start using other bootable discs like original CD bootable CD in MS Windows or linux?

  You could this workaround is short:
  Copy the recovery CD (burn on another CD) and then try to start the laptop using the recovery disc copied.

  Maybe it will work