How to replace HDD on Equium A100-147?

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• Question about spec HDD on Equium A100-147

  I am considering buying an A100-147. Anyone know if the hard drive is SATA or IDE.

  I am also looking at the Satellite A100-207. It is more expensive to 70 pounds, but it has a larger drive (120 GB) SATA and a slightly faster processor (1.73 vs 1.6). First, is there really a difference between the satellite and Satellite channels other than the badge, quality of construction, for example? Secondly, I am likely to notice any practical difference between the two models? If this isn't the case, I'll save money!

  Thanks in advance

  Doug

  Hello

  In my opinion it's the right price for this device. If you check the specs the unit has Wide XGA TFT color of beautiful 15.4 TruBrite display "(1280 x 800), 120 GB of HARD drive." In any case before you buy the laptop please make sure what you want to do with it. If you like game then this device is perhaps not the best because of the shared memory graphics card. The unit has also a Bluetooth module or internal microphone.
  I put t know how is this important to you, but for that price you laptop very nice.

  Graham, if you think that this device has all that you need for the job go! ;)

• Possible replacement of Equium A100 - 147 HDD 250 GB?

  Hello

  I own an Equium A100-147 with 60 GB HARD drive. I have a recovery disc and have restored the laptop several times.

  I am considering an upgrade to 250 GB HARD drive.

  Couple of questions...

  The motherboard will host a 250 GB drive?

  If I replace the HARD drive recover CD will install a new copy of the fatory software you (inc windows xp MCE)?

  Any advice would be welcome.

  Yes, you can use a 250 GB. The laptop has a SATA interface and there is no limit as to IDE.

  If you use the recovery CD, you will get to factory settings. This means an XP installation with all the drivers and tools.

• Equium A100-147 replacement hard drive

  Hello

  I got a toshiba Equium A100-147 by a friend. The only problem is that it comes without a hard drive, because he still destroyed his old hdd to protect its personal and professional data.

  I saw in a local computer store a disk sata hard very good price for only? Â £38 it's a 160 GB w Digital Scorpio 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache S - ATA HDD laptop someone knows if it will work or this laptop does it work-specific hdd?

  Looking forward to any help you guys can give

  Hello

  Of course you need a compatible HARD drive.
  There are two different standards of HARD drive. SATA and IDE

  You need the HARD drive with the SATA interface. I think the original HARD drive was 100 GB.
  So a 120 GB and maybe a 160 GB SATA HDD should also be compatible.

  As far as I know the HARD drive slot was placed at the bottom of the unit and a screw secures the plastic cover.
  It of really not difficult to replace the HARD drive and I think that the details could be found in the user manual.

  Good bye

• Equium A100-147: replaced Fan part number

  Hello

  I have an Equium A100 147 which is now out of warranty.
  I need to be able to find and of course spare part number where I can buy one of these ASAP.

  If someone could help me with this, it would be quite apprieciated.

  Thank you

  You can not ONLY buy the fan. The fan is a part of the cooling module and the entire module cooling must be replaced.

  You need a cooling module that has been designed especially for this series of laptop and I know ASP (certified partner) in your country should be able to help.

  I think guys should be able to order this part compatible directly from the warehouse of Toshiba.

  Then call the guy and ask for help!

• Equium A100-147 - deleted CD/DVD drive

  I uninstalled the readers of DVD/CD ROM of my Equium A100-147 model PSAABE by mistake. How I can I restore it? I'm not very technical

  Hello

  It means that your CD/DVD drive is not more?
  Have you already checked the Device Manager if the drive is visible or not?

  Otherwise, you must follow the instructions in this Microsoft KB article:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/314060

• Equium A100-147 has infrared device?

  I'm having Toshiba Equium A100-147 [00800 EAV] PSAABE... is device a infrared?
  What is the corresponding driver for it? How to activate this device?

  Please help me!

  Can you see the infrared sensor on your laptop?
  According to the specifications of the laptop your Equium doesn t have the infrared device.

• Impossible to update the setting of DVD region on Equium A100-147

  Hi I have an Equium A100-147 with a CARPET * a DVD-RAM UJ - 841S and I am returning the dvd region 2 region.
  Tried to go through Win DVD, media player and the Manager of devices but not successful on all occasions.

  Whenever I thought I left a change of reference, but when I say yes I want to make the change, that is not the case.
  I tells me that I must use a region 2 media (do) and the administrator (this is me - I'm the only user).

  I now regret letting my nephew use the laptop for watching a region 1 dvd.
  Am not longer under warranty but have whateverhappens coverage of curries.

  Help, please!

  If you check the properties of ODD under DVD Region changes remaining how is noticed?

• Equium A100-147 doesn't boot up - no display on screen

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba Equium A100-147. When I turn, I see as the light of the maximum but there is no display on the screen.
  I read on a previous thread on a similar model that this has been fixed by resetting the computer.
  I understand there is a possibility that there is a problem with the motherboard, but I remain optimistic that a manual-reset would work.

  Is someone can you please tell me how this can be done?

  You can try this procedure simple and short;

  -Remove the battery from the laptop
  -disconnect 3rd external devices and adapter
  -leave the laptop for about 20-30 min
  -then reconnect battery and AC adapter

  If the portable fuel after this procedure, then your have a serious hardware problem and only the ASP can help you.

  I don t want to make a statement on the possible faults, because it of always hard to say what's wrong exactly, but it looks a bit like a motherboard problem.

  Good bye

• Question on the disk anti-shock HARD on Equium A100-147

  Don't Equium A100 - 147 HDD have the same shock of the A120 series?

  Hello

  Sorry, but the Equium A120 is unclear to me. Where did you find information on this laptop and HARD shock anti-mecanisme disc?

  I found some info on the new feature called Toshiba EasyGuard.
  Protection of hard drive (HDD) a feature of Toshiba EasyGuard is designed not to damage the hard drive and disks of data caused by the shock, fall or vibration.
  This feature can be found in the device under the section manager system devices as driver of Toshiba HDD protection shock sensor.
  But unfortunately, I don t find anything similar on the Equium A100

• Equium A100-147: Impossible to get Bluetooth to work

  I bought an Equium A100-147 last week and noted in the manual it should have Bluetooth capabilities. However, I can't get this to work. I looked for my phone, and it does not pick up the computer as a bluetooth device. In the help files, it says I can set it up in the bluetooth settings in the Control Panel, but there is nothing in there. I tried to install the battery Bluetooth Toshiba, but it keeps asking me to install the bluetooth device.

  This computer actually has bluetooth abilities or not? If so, how can I get this to work?

  See you soon

  Hello

  Each unit with BT has BT label in the lower corner. Something like this http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ35007I001WR01.htm

  If you do not find it the BT is certainly not available.

• Upgrade of RAM Equium A100-147

  Hi, I have an Equium A100-147 with the standard of 1 GB of RAM (512 MB + 512 MB pc-4200) professional XP.

  I'd like to update, and I was wondering if it would be allowed to replace one of the 512 MB sticks with a single stick of 2 GB pc-5300. RAM would be then 2 GB pc-5300 plus 512 MB pc-4200 = 2.5 GB in total.

  Or would it be better to buy 2 x 1 GB sticks of pc-5300 and sell or discard existing memory?

  I see a significant speed increase over the existing configuration of the Ram?

  All advice appreciated.

  Thank you.

  I agree with Akuma, it would be better to use 2 x 1 GB modules.

  This combination with 2 GB and 512 MB with different (PC4200 and PC5300) specifications could make problems like freezing, BSOD, etc..

  At present, the price of memory is very cheap, so I think that this should not be a problem.

• Equium A100-147: can not play games becauce slow DVD player

  Hello

  I have a laptop Equium A100-147. I tried many games on my laptop which should conform to the specifications required for example battlefield 2, however, these games does not work and I didn't know why. I then realized that all the games I tried were all on 4 DVD-ROM drive demanding x, and the specifications I provided with my laptop did not specify what kind of DVD player, I had another super multi layer or something.

  It is while I tried the games that were demanding CD-ROM which all worked fine, I then tried a game that was 2 x DVD ROM demanding that worked apart from a small problem with models of characters not displayed, so I took back defective. Then I tried a 1 x DVD-ROM game that worked perfectly.

  Today, I decided to get my DVD specifications, where I found that my laptop should read 8 x DVD - ROM drives.
  So my question is, is my defective DVD player for not playing more than 1 x DVD - ROM games? And can I contact Toshiba or my provider for repair or replacement or my problem would be something else?

  Thank you, Josh

  Hello

  As far as I know the laptop was delivered with the drive UJ - 841S and the drive supports 8 x DVD-ROM.
  Of course, there must be something wrong if the drive cannot read DVD-ROM media at full speed. The middle is not supported or the drive malfunctions

  What you can do is search for the update of the firmware. Many laptops come with the same drive. See the categories of driver and, possibly, there is a new update of the firmware.

  You can also try to remove the physical drive from the laptop and reboot the device without the drive. Then turn off the appliance, install the drive again and the boot upward.
  The laptop must initialize the firmware again and maybe this will help

  But it seems you notebook is not very old and the warranty is valid. If you need to contact the ASP in your country for more details and possibly for disc replacement

• Equium A100-147: cannot install Vista because of startup configuration problem

  Equium A100-147 (Windows MCE) bought compatible Vista and bought my promised copy of Vista... used Toshiba step by step DVD ROM upgrade and also updated the Bios.

  Tried to load Vista Home Premium and after going through all the steps, it came with this message...
  «Could not update the computer startup configuration - installation cannot go ahead «...»»

  How should I proceed and what is useful to load Vista.
  Thanks in advance for any help.
  Considers that Howard.

  Hello

  How have you tried to install vista on the laptop?
  Have you tried to switch the MCE to Vista or were you running the new clean install of Vista?

  In my opinion, you must perform a clean installation. Don t updated the existing MCE of Vista.
  In such cases, you can join different installation problems

  If you are an owner of an original MS windows XP CD try to run the console of your windows XP CD recovery.
  Demarrer start from the CD at startup, and then press R to access the recovery console after loading the driver.

  In the recovery console, typefixbootand then restart your laptop.
  Then insert your Vista installation and restart.

  This should solve your problem.

• Equium A100-147: can I use external monitor with 1920 x 1200 output

  Hello

  I have an equium A100-147, anyone know if its possible to use my external lcd as office extended to its native resolution of 1920 x 1200, I want to use it for photo editing.

  None of these options to external display currently on the graphics card drivers provide a decent game with the external monitor.

  How can I make it fit on the screen without stretch or compress images with a decent resolution?

  Hi Mae

  As you probably know the resolution you want to use depends on the installed graphics driver.
  If the graph does not contain the 1920 x 1200 resolution you will not be able to use it.

  But maybe after a small modification of the graphics driver you will be able to choose such an external resolution.

  Please visit this thread:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19677

  Maybe the procedure described by Jogi might help.