Portege 2010 & Vodafone 3G Datacard

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• Portege 2010 - bad BIOS (block3)

  I have a portege 2010 with a bad bios
  on normal startup, it goes to screen
  BIOS (Block3) is damaged! (Call the repairman).

  so I tried to reflash the bios in the usual way.
  do a disk with
  -----
  biosfile biofca6t.com
  chgbiosa.exe
  -----
  and start either with the flashing the BIOS button (just to the left of the space bar)
  or by pressing any key on-screen "block3.

  It does not load the program chgbiosa.exe. who reads the bios file
  Hot flashes and it recharges
  -----
  Reading BIOS file...
  Data erasure and writing the BIOS...

  ROM write successful!
  Utility finished
  -----
  Then it restarts

  but unfortunately. nothing changes. He still goes to the display of block 3

  so I think I can have damaged the chip of the bios on my hands.
  Since the successful re-flash does nothing...

  -----------------
  NOT RECOMMENDED
  So I decided to check if the chgbiosa actually do anything.
  so, during the writing process, I unplugged the power.
  (incomplete writing process) and I'm done with a (block 1)
  damaged. An another bios update later.
  and we are back to (Block3)
  so it does not write in the bios
  DO NOT TRY THIS: can erase the part "failsafe" of the bios
  ---------------------
  so the question is. Where should I go from here.

  I'm willing and able to unsolder the chip and flash also
  but I don't have a bios not 'complete' user flashable part only of it since the official updates of the file...

  can I order a new chip preflashed somewhere?

  can I somehow totally clear the bios user box then it reflashing?

  can - I somehow replace the bios (more than the standard chgbiosa way?)

  can I transplanted the and of a motherboard Portege 2000
  (the failsafe will start so I can flash with a bios P2010?)

  I can start another tool, describing it as "chgbiosa.exe" on the floppy drive, which can be useful

  can I do the smaller biosfile, so it won't need block3 (remove the logo toshiba etc.)
  from the rom file?

  Any suggestions are appreciated

  This notebook is a project of the company. I am prepared to do anything...

  / Jean-Paul

  Hello

  So many questions, and most of them must be answered by technicians. I really think you need professional help. I recommend you to call the nearest Toshiba service provider and ask for help.
  To be honest, I don't think that you will be able to order this chip anywhere. Speak with the service.

  By the way: mainboard renovated for Portege 2000/2010 with work well chip BIOS, I found on eBay for 39 euros, so if you can not do anything and BIOS repair buy new motherboard, Exchange and be happy.

  Furthermore, I Portege 2000 and it's really nice laptop.

• Update CPU is possible on Portege 2010

  Hi, I wonder if it is possible to upgrade the processor on my Portege 2010, I work as a pc technician so I have no problem to do the job.
  If so can what models I use?

  Thank you

  Upgrade CPU on the laptop is really not simple and delicate. I think you know this because you're a pc technician.
  The Portege 2010 seems to be an old I didn t find many details on this device, but I found out that this laptop was equipped the PIII-M (Mobile) 866 MHz 133 MHz FSB processor.

  What you could do is install and hardware diagnostic tool to find out which chipset is supported. Then check the details of this chipset (maybe on Intel page) and which could be supported by the CPU.

  However, I'm really skeptical that the laptop will be stable after the upgrade of Mr. overheating could be a big trouble!

• Portege 2010 Boot Error SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

  When you try to start my Portege 2010 (OS is XP), I finally get a blue screen message

  SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

  This is even after using the recovery CD disk full, to rebuild the laptop. Any ideas what is causing the problem and how it can be fixed would be appreciated?

  Concerning
  Rob

  Hello Rob

  It is very strange that this stop error message occurs after the recovery procedure. Please check these two articles about this stop message
  http://msdn.Microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/w2kmsgs/1216.asp
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/153742/en-us

  Maybe it will help you to know exactly what is happening.

  Good bye

• Portege 2010: machine wrong message appears

  On my 2010 Portege message 'bad machine' is displayed using recovery for Portege 2000 CD

  Detais are here.
  Portege 2010 > origionaly was a Chinese version of Win XP Edition family >< i="" bought="" it="" from="" a="" person="" who="" some="" how="" had="" installed="" winxp="" pro="" and="" win="" 98="" on="">

  I tried to format HD to use my own copy of XP pro Corp... that's where my problem started.

  Portege Boote drpm WIn98 CD and boot drive as well... after loading of diagnostic tools > I get the message «device driver MSCD001 not found and not found CD driver...»

  My qUESTION: How can I proceed from this Message >

  >< i="" bought="" portege="" 2000="" 3="" recovery="" cds="" assuming="" that="" it="" will="" restore="" portege="" but="" after="" running="" first="" cd=""> <> I get a message of great evil Machine

  MU Question is is it possible to restore the Portege 2000 the Portege 2010 that origionally had a Chinese version of the OS...

  What can I do to install WinXp on my Portege 2010... and how can I fix the device mscd001 message not found CD driver

  Hello

  Unfortunately, there is nothing to see. The recovery image is created for each laptop model and may not be used for the different laptop models. Can you imagine the situation you can use each medium recovery on each laptop model?

  Each cell phone has hardware specific, and because of this, the recovery media are specific for particular laptop model.

  By the way: which CD-Rom device that you use?

• Portege 2010 - clicks of death? -Perhaps the HARD drive is dead

  Hello

  A few minutes ago, I tried to start my portege 2010, who worked a few hours ago. Now, I do not even past the BIOS screen because the disc is of strange noises, as leaders try to enter the post, but fail. I have to admit that yesterday the system froze for no obvious reason but I didn't know that this was due to a failure to come, I just rebooted the machine and it behaved like any other day. So I'm rather perplexed, how the disaster could hit so suddenly. The portege is out of the warranty period, so I guess there is no way get around to buy a new drive. I wonder if this problem is a common problem among the Portégé series, I think I remember an article published online by indicating this.

  Hello Steffen

  If Toshiba STAS 10 000 or more laptop computers Portege 2010 and you find one or 10 other users with the same symptoms of HARD drive, it cannot be any kind of common problem. Common problem is something else.

  According to your description, is it really possible the HARD drive shows signs of dysfunction. All you can do is to watch carefully what happens in the next few days and if the HDD feature fails, you must buy a new HARD drive. All that s!

  If you will be able to start it in some way I recommend you back up all your data (e.g. on USB key) before the HARD disk fails completely.

• Faulty display on Portege 2010

  I have a 3 years Portege 2010. When I use it today the display started to go white, up and down, and then went black. When I restart it I get the Toshiba logo and the first two screens to boot Windows, but then the screen goes black. Sometimes I get more than others before the screen goes black - for example sometimes, I get as far as connecting Windows then it (i.e. Windows) freezes. Sometimes it crashes on the first screen of "Toshiba", before it crashes. Sometimes it gets past the boot selection menu and then I get a BSOD (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL).

  I also noticed that if I press the two ends of the (extended) battery the display begins to break up.

  This sounds like a faulty screen or a faulty connection? If the latter is this something I could try to fix me? If not, what is the approximate cost of the setting of this kind of thing?

  TIA
  Ian

  Hello

  There are a lot of different issues with the display relly. Really, I n know where to start with comments. ;)

  I presume that you can install the recovery image to get rid of BSODS and check how it works with the external monitor. I guess that on an external display it won't you have problems with the black and white display.

  As you know on this path, it is not easy to give any kind of diagnosis. If everything works well with external display problem is LCD. If the external monitor, you will notice some strange behavior, it may result from the graphics chip on the motherboard. The test please a bit more intensively.

• Blank white display on Portege 2010

  I have a Portege 2010 and I have a strange error with the display. Most of the time it works perfectly, but sometimes it shows just a white to white.

  Just by pressing Fn + F5 has no effect on the screen, but when I plug in an external monitor in (even if it is disabled) and press Fn + F5 a couple of times that restores normal operation.

  Is there a particular part of the system that I need to check?

  Hello Dave

  Check it please interesting explanation written by NickyNoogle under http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=18083

  Maybe it's your laptop Portege.

• Linux for Portege 2010 SD card reader driver / controller

  Hello
  I use Ubuntu Linux 6.10 on my Portege 2010. Things seem to work well, but I'm unable to download a driver for my SD card unit.
  Issues related to the:
  1. where can I find it?
  2 - is the SD card controller in this support of laptops SD Host Controller Specification of the Association from the SD card to http://www.sdcard.org/HostController/index.html?
  3. what chipset using this SD card controller? I can't find any documentation on the subject.

  My Toshiba Portege 2010 has the following entry of the ICP for the sd card controller:
  $lspci - n
  00:12.0 0880: 1179:0805 (rev 03)
  $lspci - vv
  00:12.0 peripheral system: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 03)
  Subsystem: Device of Toshiba America Information Systems unknown 0001
  Control: I/o - Mem + BusMaster - SpecCycle - MemWINV - VGASnoop - ParErr - Stepping - SERR - FastB2B-
  Status: Cap + 66 MHz-UDF-FastB2B-ParErr-DEVSEL = medium > TAbort - SERR.<>
  Interruption: pin has routed to the IRQ 11
  Region 0: Memory at f7ebdc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size = 512]

  Hello

  I'm really skeptical to find the right driver for SD card controller. Toshiba has designed all the drivers for supported Windows XP operating system but not for Linux.

  As far as I know for all those people who want to use Linux on a Toshiba laptops, Toshiba built an Infrastructure to support. Check please the content of the following pages:
  http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/main/index.html
  http://Linux.Toshiba-DME.co.jp/Linux/index.htm

  Good bye

• Portege 2010 :-CD of recovery does not

  I am recovering a 2010 Portege with the recovery CD. But it tells me to insert the CD n ° 1 recovery.
  I use the CD-RW/DVD Toshiba USB drive. The computer boots fine on the CD, but it seems as if the CD drivers are not installed properly, perhaps because it is a USB - stick.
  I tried to create a floppy boot, but with the same problem. The CD is not installed.

  How can I make it work?

  Hello

  As far as I know that a Toshiba 16-bit CD player would work because the other drives are not detected by the BIOS as a boot device.

  Check this box:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=3318&MessageID=10268

• Installation of operating system on used Portege 2010

  I just bought a 2010 Portege opportunity, which took the hard drive wiped by the previous owner. How to install a new operating system (Windows 2000 Professional)?
  Can it be done with a card PCMCIA CD player and if so who? (I have a Toshiba no one of them, I can use it?)

  Hello

  The cable between the cd and the laptop must be a 16-bit cable, if you want to recovery. I'm not really sure if you can use different brands of

  See you soon

• Portege 2010 - cannot find the button FINISH to save the changes to the BIOS

  I couldn't save my Bios Setup because I can not find the keys to the end to save the changes.
  I tried to hit all the keys on keyboard, but none of this save the settings.

  Can you show me the keyboard scheme showing the end keys?
  I have toshiba portege 2001 series.

  > Can you show me the keyboard scheme showing the end keys?

  I checked the user manual which you can download from the Toshiba user manual page and the END button seems to be located in the upper right corner, it s above the BACKSPACE key.

  See you soon

• How to bypass the password or reinstall windows on Portege 2010?

  Hello

  I have a Portege laptop, P2010 with no floppy drive or a cd.
  Please can someone tell me how to reinstall windows or bypass the ctrl alt del on start up password because I can find a way to the t...

  Hello

  You mean you want to bypass the admin password?
  I doubt that this is possible I didn t find a way to remove this password if it s you don't not known

  However, the new installation of the OS can be done without the CD/DVD drive
  You can copy the folder i386 CD Win XP on the HARD drive.
  Then you must Access this folder on the HARD drive and run the winnt.exe in order to start the installation of Win XP

• Update BIOS Portege 2010 / operating temperature

  Hello

  How can I update my BIOS when using Ubuntu Linux?

  The reason why I want to update my BIOS is on the one hand, Ubuntu
  writes an error during the startup and recommend to upgrade and
  the other hand, I fear that there may be a temperature problem, at least the
  laptop gets slower after working for a while.

  The laptop operating temperature usually is between 45 to 64 degrees.
  The fan starts running at 62 degrees and goes off to 52 degrees.

  The temperature seems to be pretty normal, I would say, but I think that it is not normal that the
  laptop gets slower when using above 50 degrees.

  I already opened it, it seems to be all right with the cooling unit, no dirt for example...

  Maybe I just persuade me I and the performance is quite normal for a PIII with
  866 MHz?

  Thank you

  Dear Julio

  I guess you know that Linux is not being designed load OS and BIOS update is created to be performed by running the Windows operating system. This beautiful Portege is known to me and I know very well that this is not the laptop the fastest and is designed for commercial purposes working with Office, electronic communication, and any other daily activity.

  Because of this can be the answer to your last question: Yes persuade you yourself.

• What external case for HARD drive do I need for my Portege 2010

  I have a corrupted windows XP, but fear using the repair option due to the large number of photos of my children who have yet to be backed up or displayed in a photo etc store.

  I found that you can buy a hard drive enclosure that can then be used via the USB port to download these important files before any repair option. I bought a standard encolsure 2.5 "from Maplin but the connection is a woman on both ends (enclosure and hard drive) and a few shorter pins on the drive of Toshiba wants the encolsure.
  How I progress - my wife won't let me live if I can't get these photos off the coast and professional background should not be necessary.

  Help!

  Hi Andrew

  Problem is that your Portege has 1.8 HDD and I found just this page where you can pick up some http://www.addonics.com/products/io/aks218ide.asp Info

  I hope that you will be able to backup your data.

  Good luck!!!