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• Satellite Pro L20: battery not charge when the power adapter is connected

  Hello

  all advice appreciated.

  I had a Satellite Pro L20 for about 18 months. Recently, battery does not charge when the power adapter is connected. The battery light starts yellow (which means more liberated, I think?), then will both green, the machine sat for awhile. However the ACPI often said that AC is "offline."

  There are two recent occurrences that coincide with this problem, I try to eliminate:

  1. my friends rat chewed by the feeder for pets! Power is Mobile OK insofar as he fled sector - the rat seems to have simply chewed by the outer cover (I see some threads, but I think that is just a shield, although I'm not an electrician).

  2. I put the laptop in hibernation for the first time. That seemed to mess up the system a bit, which was what initially drew my attention to the problem. This question is a bit complicated because I'm under Linux (Xubuntu).

  I updated the drivers etc from windows when I bought the laptop. Never had any problems until now and have been running linux for centuries. Also, I have mainly the laptop the power supply turned off, but do not remove the battery (is that really a problem these days?)

  I obviously need to replace the adapter, but is - it is likely (and how I can check) that the battery was borked until?

  see you soon
  Chris

  First, please check if the other are lit.
  If the AC led and power led are on the adapter sector is ok and it provides the power to the laptop.

  > The battery light starts yellow (which means more liberated, I think?), then will both green, the machine sat for awhile
  If the battery LED is yellow, this means that the battery is not fully charged and if the Green led changes then recharging is caught and the battery has been recharged.

  So I really don t see any problems with the charge process.

  Maybe the battery is old and so you cannot use it for an extended in such a case only the replacement of the battery could help.

• Satellite Pro L20 keyboard problems not fixed by the update of the BIOS

  Hello

  When I type in MS Word or another application, certain characters are not displayed. This problem is known.
  I followed the recommendation of the TOSHIBA BIOS V1.30 for PSL25E update. Unfortunatey, it does not help.
  I would be gateful to any Advisor.

  Thank you
  olbur

  Hi Olbur

  I didn't find any official document on this subject, as you say, known issue. Can you please send a link?

  I have the Satellite L20 and there is not much difference for Satellite Pro L20 and I have no such problems, but I'm interesting about this. The L20 keyboard is not the best one, but all the characters are not displayed correctly. Maybe you type fast. ;)

• Satellite Pro L20-164 will not launch

  Satellite Pro L20 - 164 running Windows XP. Get the initial window (press F2/F12) then just a white screen.
  Any help welcome.

  Hello

  You mean that you cannot access the BIOS?
  Usually by pressing F2 should lead you to the BIOS settings.
  If this is not possible, then a problem of BIOS/motherboard might be reason for that

  You are able to boot from the CD?
  You can boot from CD by pressing C or F12. By pressing F12 should allow a start on the screen menu. Then you could choose ODD as a boot device.

• Satellite Pro L10 battery did not reach full charge

  On my Satellite Pro L10 battery only reaches 85% charge if leave all night. Is this likely to be a problem with the supply power, circuits inside the computer or charge the battery?

  I need to know the best place to start to spend money!

  Some experience that may or may not apply to:
  -Battery system is around 2.5 years
  -The battery lasts about 1 to 1.5 hrs that seems fair considering his age and his level of violence (left connected permanently and not recycled periodically)
  -Very recently would not pass, with or without the power adapter connected. Solved by removing AC, then the battery, running on AC, then turn off and reinsert the battery. Everything now works on battery or AC.
  -Over problem, system has been itself decommissioned at random. Since the resolution of the problem of market it was not randomly turned off itself, YET!

  Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.

  Chris

  HM, sounds to me like a hardware problem. But the problem is to understand where exactly the error, if you have the following options:

  * Contact a service partner chartered for a hardwarecheckup and an accurate diagnosis of your machine ([http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/generic_content.jsp?service=EU&ID=ASP_SUPPORT])
  * You can buy a new battery (since it could be the battery, I guess)
  * You can sell this machine on ebay and buy a new one :)

  Hope I could give you some new and fresh ideas. There is almost no other options or solutions, the it s so your choice.

  Greetings

• Satellite Pro L20 - original drive not grateful

  Hello

  Ive looked for forums and the internet in general but was unable to find anything related to my problem.

  Recently, I removed the my Satellite Pro L20 original hard drive and replaced by a spare part just to test another operating system. I didn't wipe my existing windows of the original OS.

  However, now if I place the original hard drive in the laptop, it does not recognize it in the BIOS at all. The original works of disk of 60Go perfectly in an external USB caddy on the laptop, but used in their own country. At first, thought it might be the drive so I bought a new drive of 250 GB, but again, not recognized.

  Reading, I think that the original drive is an EIDE drive and I don't think that the replacement of 12 GB is drive I put in temporarily. Ive also tried reflashing the BIOS, hoping that might solve the problem, but without any luck again.

  Could you get it someone please let me know how to solve this problem?

  Thank you

  Martin

  Hello

  This s very strange problem you have deleted first disk of 60 GB, then you have reinserted and the BIOS doesn t recognize now 60 GB HARD drive.
  Am I wrong?

  One of my friends had a similar problem. The original internal HDD was not recognized by the BIOS. After a lengthy investigation, he set the BIOS to the default settings and restarted the laptop.

  This helped to recover the HARD drive

• Satellite Pro L20: Battery lasts only 30 minutes.

  This problem has persisted throughout the four months, I've owned and used this notebook: when the battery has been recharged and I try to work on battery power only, the battery reading usually indicates 82% min 27' and, as you would expect, runs right now.

  I've seen similar problems reported on this forum, but none with such a capacity of battery runs.

  In case this isn't a bad battery, is it possible that I use a lot of battery power without realizing?

  Hello

  As far as I know that the Toshiba power saver is not installed on the Sat Pro L20.
  The power of Microsoft options windows is responsible for the State of battery power.
  However, have you tried to update the BIOS on this laptop? If this isn't the case, in order to check it out.
  Visit the Toshiba page and check that you have installed the version of BIOS with BIOS available on the site.

  But it is also possible that the battery has a malfunction because it s unusual that the laptop will run only 27 minutes on battery.

• Satellite Pro L20: battery fails to load

  I've had my laptop since January this year works very well, but since last week, my battery is unable to load over 50% and ideas

  Hi Adam,.

  It seems that certain cells in your battery may have failed. If your L20 is only a few months ols so that should be covered by the warranty. Contact your nearest authorized Service partner.

  Kind regards

• Satellite Pro L20 does not start

  I have a new satellite pro L20 M750
  does not start
  the thing is since the first time I tried to start it it would not start.
  I bought it over the internet and is still brand new in the plastic bag, would there be anything to make this power for the first time or it is defective.

  Thanks in advance

  Hello

  Did you check if the AC adapter is working properly?
  Initially, the battery is not charged. You must connect the power adapter to recharge the battery.

• Need to reinstall windows, but does not have any CD - Satellite Pro L20

  Hi, I wanted to reinstall Windows XP home on my Satellite Pro L20, but do not have the software that my laptop came with (read the discs lost). I have a valid XP tone (like its stuck on the bottom of my laptop), but no disc so I tired using a copy of a cd of Windows XP home, which did not work, but let me go as far as the formatting of the hard drive.

  So now I use Ubuntu, but want to reinstall Windows. Have valid product key, but no software to reinstall.

  Any suggestions?

  Thank you

  Christopher

  Valid key will not help you. This key belongs to the image recovery and copy included WXP he.
  If you have two options. Either you order original Toshiba recovery image or use Microsoft installations CD key which belongs to this copy. All the necessary drivers, tools and utilities that you can download at Toshiba support page under http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com > support & downloads.

  Good luck!

• Cannot get wireless with my Satellite Pro L20

  My Satellite Pro L20 simply does not recognize my wireless network at home - he can't even see when I search for wireless networks. With my other non-Toshiba laptop on - there was no problem and that captures wireless 4 or 5 in my neighborhood.

  My Tosh works well when he hard plugged on the Net, but if you help get me wireless I would appreciate.

  Are you sure that your laptop is an installation of a WLan minPCI card?
  You can check this in the device under network adapters Manager

  If the wireless network adapter is listed in the device manager then you should check the compatibility of the WLan standards.
  If the wireless network adapter supports only the 802. 11 G standard and your router supports only 802.11 A or 802.11 standard B then you will not be able to connect to the WLan router.

• Satellite Pro L20 does not illuminate

  Hope you can help. We have a 5 years satellite pro L20 who never gave a lot of days. It runs from Win XP, had an upgrade (crucial) memory to 2 GB and a new battery 4 years ago 4 years ago. 2 days ago, he simply left with the same noise you get when force a shutdown by holding the power button down. I tried to boot with no battery, just the sector and only on a charged battery. All to nothing does not.

  I then read the button of power with the battery and removed sector I did after leaving it overnight. When I replaced the battery it started as usual and lasted 30 seconds before turning off again, and then he was dead. I have tried all combinations with the ram up to 1 stick or kidnapped and attempted to get the bios with the HDD outside as well. Still nothing.

  I noticed that when I put the battery in 2 of the 3 flashes briefly, and now the button of pwer while pushing the battery causes a brief start 4 seconds.

  Any ideas as to what this may be? I suspect that the hardware and software. Also, I tried a different power adapter, once again no results. It stays just off.

  Thanks for any help...

  Hello

  I'm afraid it looks like a serious m hardware problem
  My first idea was a malfunction of the RAM in such a case, you could replace and test the memory, but it seems that you have already tried

  In my view there s something wrong with a motherboard or a part on the motherboard :(
  In this case I n t think a replacement of the motherboard would be useful since this part is very expensive

• Cannot charge battery on my Satellite Pro L20

  I have a satellite Pro L20 and I can't charge my battery why? Is there someone for help please?

  Hello

  Why? It is not easy to say, but it may be because of the faulty electronic power.

  Remove the battery, connect the laptop to the power adapter and switch it on. When the operating system starts, put the battery inside and let us know exactly what is happening.

  It will be interesting to know if the battery is correctly recognized and what's with battery LED.

• Satellite Pro L20 - 30 mins of battery

  Hello

  I recently only got 30 min max my satellite pro L20 laptop battery life.

  I used the manual of instructions, looked up and followed the instructions for the rehabilitation of the battery, i.e. run battery discharged, recharge, etc., but he did not make a difference.

  I've had the laptop for almost 2 years through the company I work for unofrtunately get any kind of it, support the it guy is like getting blood out of a stone - I would get groans able to ask the question.

  Any help/advice would be really appreciated.

  Thanks B!

  Hello

  Usually battery working time depends on the use of the laptop. If high performance applications run on the laptop, the battery working time breaks down.

  If I understand correctly, the laptop and the battery is abut 2 years old.
  To my knowledge after about 500 charge/discharge procedures time decrease the battery performance.
  My laptop is about 3 years old and I can use my battery for about 20-30 minutes also.
  My second Notebook battery died completely. I use this laptop only with the AC adapter / CC. In my opinion is nothing unusual.

  You can compare this situation to battery for laptop with mobile phone batteries.
  After several times that it of necessary to replace the battery.

  Best regards

• Satellite Pro L20 - CPU / battery upgrade

  Hi all

  I have a L20 the Satellite with the Celeron 360 Pro. I have seen that you can get another satellite pro L20s running Pentium m 730 1.6GHZ CPU. I was wondering if it was possible to upgrade the processor in this machine. The power of thermal design of the Celeron is 21W which is slightly lower than that of the Pentium-M 27W, but should not running too hot as it has speedstep, the only problem is that the Pentium versions seem to have Intel graphics and the Celeron have ATI x 200, it's a different motherboard or the same?

  If anyone knows if the upgrade is possible can you please post and let me know. Thank you!
  Also, I noticed there is a battery 4300mAh who would last longer 200mAh battery I have, it works on 14.8V where as mine is 14.4V would this work in my laptop, im assuming that it should?

  Maybe this thread will help you to get more information on the upgrade of CPU:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=14578&MessageID=53251

  User Grze22gorz went the Celeron M for Pentium M processor and the system works properly.

  Additional threads;
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=21723&MessageID=80082

  I found the part number of the battery (8 cell, 4300mAh): PA3420U-1BRS Toshiba Option European and accessories site and it s certainly consistent with Sat L20 and Satellite Pro L20

  Good day