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• Portege 3480CT: Multimedia - need a player software Replicator

  I have a Toshiba Portege 3480CT with an external media Port Replicator. I recently loaded Windows XP but do not have the DVD player software. Can someone tell me how to find the appropriate download?

  Hello

  You can use the playback software DVD evry you can find on the market. It should not be used Toshiba one (WinDVD if you think about this one).

  Google a bit and you will find a large number of them. My favorite is the Power DVD Deluxe software. InterVideo WinDVD is a part of the recovery under Win XP OS image, but you can download it from the net http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Product_Download.jsp?p=WinDVD

• Portege 3480CT: Message: "non-continuous file Bios.

  I have a portege 3480CT that won't start at all (blank screen) outside of allowing me to update bios, if I try and install the bios disk I get a message saying BIOS non-continuous file?

  Hello

  I put t know what BIOS version you use, but please check if you have installed the correct version of the BIOS. As much as I know the latest version is 1.4 form 18/03/02.
  In addition, you should visit this site to verify the correct procedure of BIOS on this device:
  IOS http://eu.Computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/FAQ.jsp?z=234&service=eu&from=faq_selection&CFID=B & FID = TRO0000000b07

  Please note that the bad BIOS or bad update may damage the motherboard.

  Good bye

• Hibernation on Portege 3480CT

  Hello
  I had a problem on Portege 3480CT were I have installed Win98.
  Received an error message: file not existing Hibernate.

  My Question: Use the 3480 a file to C:\ (hiberfil.sys) and how to create or a hibernation partition?
  What tool would create this partition?

  Thank you

  PHDISK is a tool that creates and activates the hibernation partition/file.
  Try to google for this tool.

  Maybe it helps a little.

  Good luck

• IBM travelstar external USB compatibility with Portege 3480CT

  Hello
  I try to use an IBM & reg travelstar in a box external usb with my Portege 3480CT running Windows 2000 (with sp4). While the disc is recognized as plug-and-play on other computers running win2k and winXP, is not recognized on my Portege, which gives an error message suggests that the drivers are missing.

  According to IBM/hitachi (which make the player), no drivers are needed and the drive should work as plug-and-play, recognized as a generic USB HDD. This happens all other computers I've tried.

  Are their compatibility problems with this drive? Or are their special all the drivers necessary to recognize this configuration on the Portege?
  Thank you
  B

  Hello

  AFAIK there is no driver required for external hard drives and they are recognized as plug-and-play. Your Portege is an old unit and there may be a problem with the USB ports. Have you checked the other USB devices?

  It is also possible that there is not enough power, and in this case, it is recommended to connect the drive using USB hub with own power supply.

  Good bye

• Portege 3480CT: Canoe DVD-> not present error message "No Disk".

  I have a Portege 3480CT (Win 98) and PA3042E - MEDIA PORT REPLICATOR 1DST. Although the DVD playback software is installed and I can't read the DVD. I tried WINDVD, POWER DVD, both for WIN 98, nothing helps. Decoder DVD software WIN 98 is also installed. If a DVD is loaded, every piece of software will return the error: "there is no disk.

  What should I do to play DVDs on my computer?

  Thank you in advance.

  Hello

  Are you using an original DVD?
  Maybe there's something wrong with the region code settings.
  If you want to play s DVD with different region the reader couldn t code recognizes the Middle!

  See also the parameter of drive letter in disk management.
  It is a port replicator, and it seems that the CD/DVD drive letter is set dynamically

• Cannot install W2K on Portege 3480CT

  On eBay, I bought a Portege 3480CT use it as a good machine to create texts out of office. But now I can not install W2K on it.

  It has an external CD drive and does not install: w2k, Linux, W98 (original)... for my favorite W2K, it says: "could not find NTLDR" (w2k) and: "media entfernen - neustart: taste druecken;

  There is no other boot device, no other disc in any location... the disc is my original one, the boot device is passed to 'boot from CD' - the system is used for W2K (there a sticker on the back, which gives me this information).

  and now I'm at the point, I have no idea how to continue.

  Is it possible to make it work again?
  Thanks in advance

  Hello

  If a "NTLDR is missing" message that this indicates that the disk is not bootable.
  Many times this is caused when the computer tries to boot from the CD-ROM or a diskette not bootable.
  In this forum, many users wanted to install the W2K on this laptop.
  First of all, you need a bootable disc.
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=7187&MessageID=24896

  If you want to boot from the CD of Win98, you must first create a companion disk. See the page of the Toshiba driver for companion disk files.

  Please also see this site. Maybe this helps:
  http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

• Compatible hard drives for Portege 3480CT

  Hello

  I have a Portege 3480CT and I need to replace its 12 GB (IBM & reg Travelstar) drive hard internal since the former on a developed bad blocks. Now, I assumed that it would be relatively simple, but I was wrong.

  In any case, I got a replacement 2.5 "HD (this time a Hitachi Travelstar, 20 GB drive), but I couldn't make it work. I ran the program from IBM/Hitachi diagnosis and while the old 12 GB HDD is detected and removed ok, the 20 GB does not even get detected (i.e., seems that nothing is on the line of the IDE).

  It was suggested to me by IBM and Hitachi that there is a list of compatibility to their hard drives, and may not be supported (http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/compatibility.htm), but I could not find my disc on their list (model is HTS424020M9AT00). Basically, what I want to know is what drives * are * compatible or what my problem with the laptop is otherwise.

  For more info, when I try to install Win2k, I get an ArcRead failure, probably because he thinks that the drive does not exist.

  Thank you.
  Stuart

  Hello

  I guess that there is problem with drive HARD and false parameter who decide if the HARD drive is the master or slave.

  In my opinion you should contact the Service partner to ask them which HDD is suitable for your device. You can also check on the net and picking up some information because there are a lot of different suppliers where you can buy the HARD drive. I also found information that it is possible to use the 40 GB HARD drive for your unit, but it must be built in by seller.

• Portege 3480CT - DVD player in those Port Replicator errors

  I have a Toshiba Portege 3480CT with an external media Port Replicator.
  The MPR has a DVD player, but I can't get the laptop to recognize DVD.
  He can see and read CDs, but I get the following error when I try to watch a DVD.
  "ASPI for Windows is not available...
  Only 32 bits supported CD rom drive... »
  The MPR recognizes that the drive is there.
  Laptop is running Windows XP SP2
  Have the BIOS update update and installed all the drivers Toshiba known.
  Can anyone help? Thank you.

  Hello

  In my opinion you need driver ASPI Google everywhere. Maybe you will find the solution for your problem. You can start with this one http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/aspi.htm

• Max on Portege 3480CT HARD drive capacity?

  What is the hard drive of greater that I can install it on a 3480CT portege? can I write DVD with an external burner (USB 2.0)?

  Hello

  You will be very happy if someone can give you specific info on the maximum capacity of the HARD drive for this model of laptop. This info can give you a few specialist upgrade for laptop, but I think that 20 or 30 GB maybe are no problem.

  I use the external DVD burner too, but not ultra slim but desktop engraver special cardboard. I don t use USB. FireWire is much faster data transfer rates and I use the firewire port on my Satellite.

• Portege R930 - upgrade the mSATA SSD succssfull

  Just briefly, I wanted to report an SSD upgrade.

  When I got my Portege R930 (PT331E, i7) two years ago, I changed the HD to a PRO 840 Samsung SSD 512 GB (big improvement). Now, this SSD is too small (photos!) and I wanted to increase the capacity up to 1 TB.

  But instead of a new SATA, I decided to go for an mSATA + adapter SATA I felt an mSATA unit would be more "evolutionary" - next update of the laptop for me would be a Portege Z, who use mSATA.

  So I bought a Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB with a Delock adapter/converter mSATA SSD, made a clone of the Apricorn cable and the software switched the SSD and everything works fine (actually a little faster )! At first I tried to use the clone with software from Samsungs migration but this didn t work, maybe I didn t the right version.

  -Now I have a lager SSD that will live longer than my R930. Please note that I'm not an expert with computers - just a happy user Toshiba! Thanks for a good forum with my good ideas!

  Concerning
  / Anders

  So, I bought a Samsung SSD 850 EVO mSATA 1 TB whole with a converter/adapter Delock...
  .. .and everything works fine

  Good news Lao!
  Thanks a lot for the comments...

  I also upgraded my laptop with a 250 GB SSD drive and now I think of a larger SSD... I should consider your solution now...

• Portege 4000 - upgrade RAM & graphic card driver installation

  I'm having some trouble with my Portege 4000 for the moment. I installed XP on a disk, but will no longer have that I have 256 MB of RAM...

  -Have you tried 2 manufacturers but the PC133 512 is not compatible. However, my system has an IBM of PC100 256 chip, which was bought early last year, after much trial and error, and I wonder now if the motherboard will be more suited to the PC100 and PC133 non?

  -Consider the options alternative to XP, 98SE or 2000 because they are lighter operating systems. I can put it on a spare drive (test). Is it possible to set up a partition for recovery CD Rom (which has 98SE) on this subject and have little space left over to install another Linux operating system or its Manager partition crushes everything?

  -J' put another post for .exe drivers related to the display/vga for 98SE and 2000.

  -Just for the record, not all Linux distributions seem to go back on the size of the screen, so it takes some work...

  Thanks much for any help.

  > Tried 2 manufacturers but the 512 PC133 is not compatible. However, my system has an IBM of PC100 256 chip, which was bought early last year, after much trial and error, and I wonder now if the motherboard will be more suited to the PC100 and PC133 non?

  The protégé 4000 is compatible with the PC133 modules! AFAIK, you can upgrade RAM of this notebook 1 GB (1024 MB) and you can use these modules;
  PC133 512 MB (PA3108U - 1 M 51)
  PC133 256 MB (PA3086U - 1 M 25)
  PC133 128 MB (PA3085U - 1 M 12)

  > Considering alternative options to XP, namely 98SE or 2000 because they are lighter operating systems. I can put it on a spare drive (test). Is it possible to set up a partition for recovery CD Rom (which has 98SE) on this subject and have little space left over to install another Linux operating system or its Manager partition crushes everything?
  You can create partitions on the HARD drive using a 3rd party like Partition Magic 8 tool. I use this tool and it's really nice.
  After you create 2 or three partitions on the HARD disk, you could install different OS (operating systems).

• Portege S100 - upgrade after cloning BSOD & HARD disk

  Hi all

  I wonder if anyone can help me please. I have a laptop Portege S100 with a standard 80 GB drive. I want to upgrade to a 200 GB drive.
  Here's what I did.

  I ran Acronis to save an image of the 80 GB HARD drive. All backed by an external USB disk and checked. I inverted the readers and restored the image on the 200 GB drive. All restored and verified.

  I restart the PC with the new hard drive in place. "Windows XP" logo comes up, then aarrgh blue screen. Stop x7B.
  Swapped the old disk, system boots fine.
  Check in the BIOS, with the old hard drive in place that the RAID configuration is enabled by default

  New swap disk, JBOD configuration is enabled in the BIOS. Could this be why it is not booting? If I want to activate the RAID configuration, it is ok, but I'm told that it will wipe the hard drive!

  I have no qualms about wiping the new hard drive, but it will work? If I change the RAID configuration, then restore the image? The only reason why I have not done it so far is because it took some time to create the image, and then writing it back on the new disk and at that time there the owner of the laptop is needed it back. !

  Help appreciated!
  Thank you very much
  Alex

  Hello!

  Can you post the BSOD detailed please?

  I'm a little confused on RAID m parameters are you wrote. As I know the Portege S100 can handle only a single HARD disk.
  In addition, you must use the same settings as with the old HDD RAID.

  Maybe the SATA controller has a limitation of LBA 28 bit and can't handle a 200 GB HARD drive. In this case, the larger HARD drive should have 120 GB. Here you can learn more about the limitation:
  http://www.48bitlba.com

  Last but not least, you can see the new HARD drive for errors. Maybe it s faulty. For this, you can use the Drive Fitness Test:
  http://www.HitachiGST.com/HDD/support/download.htm#DFT

  Sorry, but for the moment I put t have more ideas.

  Good bye

• Install W2K on Portege 3480CT with MK4018gas HARD drive

  Hallo,

  my old HDD broke running under W2K, got a new MK4018gas.
  When installing W2K always had information that W2K cannot find HARD drive.
  In DOS, I can get on the HARD disk, clone a partition that works very well
  but they could not get on the 3480CT Portege always a HARD drive problem
  came.

  Who can help?

  Hello

  This is a common problem, look here (and in particular in the link in this thread):

  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/message.jspa?MessageID=129786

  success

• Portege A600 upgraded to Win7 can't find any networks via 3g

  I have a Portege A600 with initially installed Windows Vista.
  Due to a non hard drive work, I upgraded my hard drive and my operating system to Windows 7.
  Installation went well.
  Went on the Toshiba Support Site for drivers and eliminated all of the missing devices.
  The Device Manager has more no unknown device. So far so good.
  more I installed the fn feature, don't know what was the name of the package.
  and more the Wireless Manager.
  all the drivers are the latest versions.

  (1) the Wireless Manager told me after the reboot whenever the modem 3g is deactivatet.
  so I activate it via the next reboot rem. I do the same thing. very irritating and annoying.

  (2) * this is the real problem.* even the modem was found, and I have to type in my code PIN of the SIM Wireless Manager cannot find all of the 3g networks. what I have to do a special configuration in Wireless Manager or elsewhere?
  I have freenet as a provider of the Germany.

  Hi dude

  I found Nice Toshiba 3 G portal where you can find some interesting material (FAQ and manual)
  Please take a look in this HowTo:

  + How to create a Dial-Up connection with 3 +.
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/HTD9802OF0000R01.htm

  It provides beautiful description how to set up the 3G connection.