Portege M400 - batteries do not charge

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• Portege M400 battery does not show the true situation

  I had a M400 for quite awhile. It was working fine when I got it. At that point, I was running Vista RC1. After Vista RTM was released I was however not very good battery life (40-50 minutes at 100% load).

  At first, I thought that the battery had gone back, but I have a few other batteries and an another Toshiba. When I brought a 100% charged battery showing nearly 4 hours of battery life on my M200, he showed 50minutes in my M400.

  I installed the latest version of the BIOS but no change. Is there any utility calibration of battery or other things I could try. One thing I noticed is that the fan is running most of the time at full speed.

  Hello

  Please don t compare the Portege M200 with M400. Battery life is not the same on different laptops!
  Additional there know that the battery performance are much weaker with Vista and laptop running Vista waste far more energy than the laptop even under XP.
  I noticed this unsatisfied State

• Portege M400: Vista does not see the CD/DVD drive

  Hello

  I have improved my M400 for Vista, and now it seems that I have a problem with the driver for my DVD player.

  I don't see a driver vista for the DVD player.

  Any ideas?

  Steve

  Vista uses the Microsoft own driver and you don't need any special drivers to get the job of CD/DVD drive.

• Cannot read 'Cal of Duty 4' on my Portege M400

  HI - my M400 will not let me run COD4 despite loading and running a DirectX 9.0 c test - he appeared to pass this test.
  I think that the specifications of the PC are up to the min level required, but when I run it, it crashes. Is that what I can do or is this asking too much my Tablet? (Play on my Mac brothers and its awesome!)

  Specifications for the game are:
  Minimum configuration:
  Intel (r) Pentium (r) 4 2.4 GHz or processor AMD Athlon (TM) 64 2800 + or any 1.8 Ghz Dual Core Processor or better supported
  512 MB RAM (768 MB for Vista)
  GeForce™ nVidia 6600 or better or Radeon (R) ATI 9800 Pro or better
  Recommended:
  Dual-core 2.4 GHz or higher is recommended
  1024 MB of RAM (2 048 MB for Vista)
  3.0 supported recommended shader. NVIDIA Geforce 7800 or better, ATI Radeon X 1800 or better]

  Hello

  I agree with Jonathan. Portege M400 is really not portable for the games. Maybe some intensive games graphics not but Call of duty 4.

• Problems of subsequent update on Portege M400 and W7

  I did a clean install of Windows 7 64 bit on my Portege M400 and it looks particularly pretty good.

  However, I do not have a utility to map the buttons (including the one that indicates the landscape/portrait orientation has changed). Who would be on the Toshiba Software Installer for Windows 7 (tsi4win7.exe)? Attempt to run that flashes a dialog box before displaying a second dialog box saying "this device is not manufactured by Toshiba or the BIOS is not Windows 7 compatible. No update will take place."

  I check that the BIOS was not serious for WIndows 7 before making the instalation. Trying to apply the latest version of the BIOS gives an error message "[error] BIOS update is not supported. No support for operating system or service pack is installed. »

  Can anyone help?

  As much I know Portege M400 only is not supported for Win7. If you can not find drivers and tools specific to Toshiba for this model of laptop.
  I'm sorry.

  The only thing you can try is to install stuff for other models supported, in the hope, it works well.

• Touch screen does not work on the old Portege M400

  I'm trying to restore an old Toshiba Portege M400. I have WIN XP Tablet 2005 installed and which, according to me, are all the drivers. Everything works perfectly except the touch screen.

  I've been all over the web, downloaded and installed some drivers WACOM Vigneau suggested in another thread here - still no luck.

  Anyone have any ideas or experience on how to solve this problem?

  > I would not be able to use my fingernail or or a pencil eraser to type with (I don't have any kind of pen) just to test?

  To my knowledge, you have the pen in order to use the touch screen.
  As far as I know there are two pens in the portege M400.
  The reserve pen located at the bottom of the unit that there should be a slot that the second pen.

• Modem will not accept the drivers on Portege M400

  Hello

  I have a Portege M400 built from a unnatended installation, which accepts all Bluetooth, Screen Rotation, etc. Disk utility HARD drivers but it won't accept and install THE modem drivers. I tried the drivers from the Toshiba tools disk and two drivers XP modem on the Toshiba site.

  The modem is installed and works fine when using the product recovery image, but the drivers will not work after the installed unnatended be applied.
  The unnatended disc has also included modem drivers, but of course, they do not pick up any.

  Is it possible that I can get my Active Modem?
  Thank you very much

  Rob

  You said that the modem is working after installation of the recovery CD.
  One question; Why you n t want to use the Toshiba Recovery CD?

• Impossible to install Vista on Portege M400 - not compatible with ACPI

  Hello

  I have a toshiba portege m400.
  It has windows xp professional installed SP3 (the former owner he replaced with that of the xp tablet edition - I want to upgrade to vista so I can have the capabilities of the rear shelf!)

  In any case, I have a vista version - a version upgrade Home premium.
  When I try to install it it comes up with the error:

  +' This computer is not compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) standard. Windows must be installed on a computer that supports ACPI. Contact the manufacturer of your computer for an update of the BIOS, or install Windows on an ACPI compatible computer. " +

  When I try to boot from the cd it gets up to when I type in the product key, but then he tells me I have to run this from my current operating system.

  I tried to update the BIOS (it is currently 1.8 and I heard vista needs 2.0 at least). I tried to install the latest driver from the Web from Toshiba - BIOS version 3.2.8 site but it says "this computer is not supported" even if I went through the procedure of choice of type of my laptop and spec and the pilot came on his list.
  Now I'm pulling my hair out.

  Can someone help me please!
  Would be to get a full version of vista (not an upgrade version) work and boot from the cd because it seemed to go further like this?

  Thank you!

  Hi guys

  I think I know how you will be able to update the BIOS

  I read here in the forum that in very rare cases, you have the Toshiba preinstalled OS in order to update the BIOS
  So in my opinion, you will be able to update the BIOS if install you the operating system from the Toshiba recovery disc.
  After installation try to update the BIOS

  After the BIOS has been updated you could install the new Vista

  See you soon

• Portege M400: click right button on the pen does not work

  Hello

  I can't button right-click on the barrel of the pen to work with my new Portege M400 tablet PC. I tried with the option 'Use the stylus buton click-right' in the 'Pen settings' tab 'settings in Tablet and stylus' dialog checked and unchecked, but none worked.

  Is the stylus defective, or worse still the computer? Or can anyone suggest how to operate?

  Thank you

  Toby

  PS: "pen" should be "nep" reversed in option, tab and dialog names above, but the silent filter profanity does not accept the word "nep" (reverse).

  Hello

  You have this problem since the first day? Please remember that the pen is not in a very long distance from the screen. As you know if the distance is too great the pen will not work as usual.

• Portege M400: Resolution 1680 x 1050 on external screen is not available?

  Hi people,

  I just installed a Portege M400 with an external monitor from other manufacturers. This optimal resolution of the monitor is 1680 x 1050. I installed the latest Intel drivers available on the web site of toshiba with manufacturing monitor drivers. I can't get this combination in its optimal resolution. Can anyone of you help me with this problem please?

  One thing you need to know: the monitor works perfectly on another laptop... so it has nothing to do with the monitor itself...

  Thanks in advance...

  Hi Steve

  I think that you are not able to use this resolution because it s is not available in the properties of the graphics card.
  To my knowledge, doesn t graphics card driver supports different resolutions. Some of the resolutions are disabled or are not in the graphics card driver.

  Some users have solved this problem by using a different graphics driver, but this is only possible on models with the nVidia or ATI graphics cards.
  Unfortunately, I think that there is nothing to do.

• Does not install the audio driver for Portege M400 WinXP

  Hi all

  I have a Portege M400 (3G) and I managed to extract the Windows XP Tablet Edidtion the recovery DVDs. I installed Windows XP and all the drivers in the correct order (I've omitted some of the software I don't need) and everyting works fine (in fact, I am posting this from the tablet itself) except for the sound driver. He refused to istall and gives an error message that the software does not apply to this model; even if it is the only available page driver drivers Portege M400(3G).

  any ideas?

  Hello

  where to download the driver? On the European site? Maybe you should try the Canadian site, they sometimes have some drivers who hasn´t europe and maybe you can find the audio driver that matches:

  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp

  Otherwise, there is another option: find out which audio chipset is installed, visit the website of manufacturers of this chipset and download the drivers. Him to work.

  Welcome them

• Portege M400 - virtualization not available in BIOS

  Hello

  I have 2 Portege M400 (different models), as well with the BIOS version 3.8, but strangely in one of them, I have the virtualization option to turn on or off.
  But the other not, and it seems that I'm not able to do something to make this option available on this laptop.

  Is this a known issue? I could I solve it?

  Thanks in advance,
  VICTOR

  That these two books have been said jokingly with the same processor?

  You should know that not all Intel processors supports the Intel VT (virtualization technology)

  Therefore, sometimes VT option is not available in the BIOS!

  See you soon

• Portege M400: SATA 120 GB Seagate Momentus HD is not recognized

  I bought the new and more great SATA HDD for Toshiba Portege M400. It's the drive Seagate Momentus 5400.2 120 GB SATA NCQ, but this drive does NOT work in M400. Laptop does not recognize this HD - only message is error HD (after approx. 3 minutes) and also part of the BIOS and the BIOS RAID does not know this HD.

  I don't know why in my office that this drive works perfectly. Can someone help me with this drive in M400? Is - is this possible problem with NCQ function? (I don't know, how do I trigger this function NCQ) Or something else?

  Thank you!

  In my opinion, your laptop and the BIOS cannot recognize this HARD drive because of the large size.
  As far as I know, you can use 40 GB, 60 GB, 80 GB and 100 GB hard drives. I'm not sure about 120 GB HARD drive size.
  But if you want to be sure that the compatible devices and supported at 100%, you can contact Toshiba service partner in your country.
  There you can also order the parts.

• Portege M400: Windows XP does not recognize the 160 GB HARD drive

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba Portege M400 with Windows XP Tablet Edition. Now, I bought a new 160 GB drive. This disk can be recognized within the location Phase Installation of XP. Do I need a new driver?

  Best regards

  Karl Weber

  Hello

  You have to install and include the Portege M400 RAID drivers.
  It's a bit confusing because little protégé M400 does not support 2 HARD drive, but the RAID driver is required.

  Please check the Toshiba European page and download the RAID driver. During the installation of XP her you have to press the F6 key to include the driver from an external USB FDD drive.

  After you have included the don t RAID driver format HARD drive because this will lead to the driver losing.

  Best regards

• Portege M400: Why am I not asked a password at startup?

  Hello

  I have a Portege M400 and I used the Toshiba security software help put in place a the BIOS boot password, but also a protection of HARD drive password. This software, as well as the true BIOS (Esc + F1 at startup) show that the password I set is recorded or recognized.

  However, I'm not really asked any of these passwords when I start the computer.

  I have a system to dual-boot with the original WinXP for Tablet PC on one of the partitions and one Feisty Ubuntu on another. My boot loader is GRUB, but I do not understand why this should affect the behavior of the BIOS which should arrive before calling the bootstrapper...

  Can someone help me with this? It would be really important for me to protect my BIOS and the hard drive.

  Thanks in advance,
  dsokus

  1. check your security settings with password for Toshiba utility. Are these these configured correctly?
  2 you have the user or supervisor password? If you only set the supervisor password that you are not prompted for the password.
  3. try to put the HDD and user pw in the initial bios setup (press ESC when prowering on).