Portege M400: Battery and portfolio business Slimline - which is better?

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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 M900: Battery and load problems

  I hope someone here could have helped me out in my problem. I bought my last Toshiba Portege M900 2010. I always want to plugin the charger my laptop when I am at work.

  It presents a time that when I turned on my laptop, the battery was about to be empty as the remaining 7%. I took my charger and plugged. After 5 seconds it turns off without any warning or so.

  I checked the lights in the laptop, the "light of load" is not on although charger is plugged into the outlet. I tried to use my Toshiba Satellite laptop charger and it worked.

  I tried to disconnect the battery from the laptop Toshiba Portege M900 its place and plug the charger again but there still does not turn on.

  So I took my Toshiba Portege M900 to nearest service center. But surprise when I arrived and on the problem of the technician, the laptop turned on after it was plugged. The technician said, he saw no problem because the laptop was in charge and it works right.

  But when I took it home, whenever I have remove the magazine from the taking of the laptop, it turns off immediately without any warning eventhough that battery is charged to 100%.

  And there were times, even if I remove the battery from the laptop but always plug the charger... the laptop will always be NOT PUT on.

  I tried to check the Toshiba PC Health Monitor, but it seemed that the battery works well. What do you think seems to be the problem? Is it the charger, the battery, or the power supply or the motherboard?

  > Is the charger, the battery, or the power supply or the motherboard

  I put t think its battery problem.
  Why? Because the laptop does not power upward even if the battery is removed but connected to the power adapter.

  Jack _Power? _
  Perhaps. It might be possible to equip jack or connection between the power supply and the card mother isn t ok.

  _Motherboard? _
  It could be a problem with electronic control gear that is part of the motherboard but once more; It's just an idea

  _Charger/AC adapter? _
  Hmm, you said that the adapter has been tested with another laptop and it worked. So maybe it s question no AC adapter.
  But are you sure that other phones have not run to the battery power?
  The adapter has been tested correctly? It is an open question.

  Another idea:
  What version of BIOS you have installed the M900?
  Find an update of the BIOS for the M900 protégé
  + Updated BIOS version 2.40 for Portege M900 and Satellite Pro U500 (for PSU56 *, PSU5C *, PSU5J *, PSU5Q *, PSU86 *, PSU8G * and PSU53 * ONLY) +.
  http://PC.Toshiba-Asia.com/support/drivers/details/30516

  You will find a detail on the correction of a problem:
  + System can not turn on without using the AC adapter / CC after the battery has been detached and attached again. This problem has been fixed. +

  Please check if your Portege M900 is one of the mentioned models and check if a BIOS update is available for your device.

• 5 bad iPhone battery and restart itself IOS 9.3 Beta

  Hello, I have a few problems with my iphone 5.

  After I updated ios version Saturday, my iPhone 5 do not update the battery percentage. He remained at the same percentage every day, no matter how much I use and would change only if I would turn off the phone and turn it back on. I did the update and now my phone consantly restarts every two minutes. I can't keep it longer than 5 minutes. Even if I just leave without him doing anything, it restarts itself. I use ios beta version 9.3

  Back to 9.2.1. That's why I don't do any beta test.

• Portege M400 and Vista - load PSD ends with crash

  I am an owner of a Portege M400 (PPM40E) and recently upgraded my Vista operating system. All new drivers work very well except for the * TPM *. Here's what's happening.

  There's nothing wrong with the installation of security platform. I can create a disc to ensure personal (PSD), load and unload until the first time I got disabling my computer.
  After each attempt to load the PSD is answered by an accident. Two seconds after the sending of password, I get a blue screen that informs me the source of the problem: * PFN_LIST_CORRUPT *, a memory dump file is created and the system restarts.

  Anyone facing this problem? Does anyone know how to restore data from a backup manually the PSD created? The Restore dialog box does not accept the * .fsb file.

  It would be great if someone could help me with this as I have not 'clear' backup files that I had stored on the DSP.

  Thanks in advance,

  Rob

  Hello

  I googled a little and found details of error PFN_LIST_CORRUPT.
  NFP: Page frame number and describes the sharing of individual images of main memory where the driver running or orders of this application.
  If an application or driver is beyond this scope, then a BSOD will appear.

  Here are a few tips and proposals to solve this problem I found on an external Web page:
  -updated the BIOS and set the default settings
  -reinstall and update the display driver, audio driver, LAN driver, etc.
  -Reinstall the security help,
  -update the Windows operating system

  In the worst cases, this problem could be caused by a malfunction of the RAM, and in this case, the RAM modules should be replaced.

  Sorry, but I didn't find more info on this issue.

• Portege M400 - how to remove the condensation of water?

  I received a second hand toshiba portege m400 mail and saw there probably a condensation of water trapped between the external display and touch screen behind her. because the screen in the upper left corner looks whitish. and the sender of the laptop said he wasn't there when he sent it. I have a picture of trapped moisture, for those who want to see it.

  so, I opened the screen by unscrewing. and I saw that most of the moisture is stuck between the external screen glas and one other layer behind him, which I guess, is the part of the touch screen. who looks inaccessible. These 2? the layers form the upperpart of the screen.

  the lcdscreen with all the electronics in this layer, form the lower part of the screen or if you want, cover. This part is now oke. He also had a condensation of water on it and I was able to gently wipe the little moisture of the lcdscreen without problem. This helped a bit with this problem.

  but moisture remains trapped between the part of the touchscreen layer and this layer of glass in the upperpart of the screen/cover.

  hoping to evaporate the moisture, I left the enlightened a bit more open for a day, I broke even the upperpart and the lowerpart of the screen. I applied a little of an infrared lamp, a remote backup heat. anything that did not help.

  * so, how can I remove the condensation of water? *

  * is there a way to remove a layer in the upperpart of the screen to reach the humidity? *

  Hello olekike

  Please don t get me wrong, but I'm afraid, you need professional with this Mr. help as I see that your question is not answered for days now, and I think that nobody here has a lot of experience with this stuff.
  View replacement OK but how to remove the condensation of water on the touchscreen is perhaps too heavy for us.

  I recommend strongly to contact the nearest Toshiba service provider and ask for help. talking with the guys what we can do about it.

• 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?

• 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

• View Portege M400 on TV?

  Hello
  I have a portege M400 regular and I want to display on a TV. I bought a simple vga to s-video cable on ebay... What don't get me? The seams of the video card to be able to do this option...

  and the clues...
  Thank you

  The unit sends the right signal to good port. It is possible that you need very high quality adapter. I didn t try to use this kind of adapters because my laptop has S-Video output port, but the port is not available on your Portege.

  Please check also all the settings on your TV. It is also possible that you need to activate the S-video port on the TV.

• Portege M400 - recovery question

  I try to recover my pc (Portege M400-105) and I lost the format of raid. Now, my operating system can not find the hard drive. How can I reformat as raid with the antishok system partition?

  Hello

  Please see the download page for Toshiba under http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp

  You will find everything you need.

  Good bye

• Picking and Portege M400 displacement causes the crash and locking of the

  I have a new problem with Portege M400, which began a few days ago.

  If I pick it up or move it, then it will crash or lock up. I wonder if anyone has any idea as to what may be the cause of this and what can be done?
  My only guess is to replace the hard drive?

  Thank you
  Greg

  > Turn off accelerometer does not help. Internet research indicates that it is possible a motherboard problem. Replacement motherboard solves problems for about 6 months to a year, then it returns.

  I doubt that it could be a motherboard problem, what the gbaniseter say this happens when it pick up or move the m400, then it will crash or lock up.
  This seems to be a problem of HARD drive and it s nothing uncommon who, after a long period of use of the disk HARD start HARD drive malfunction is a sensitive device and can die because of the physical restraint
  Replace the HARD drive and check if the problem would happen!

• Cannot install Vista Business on Portege M400 - IDE issues

  Hi guys... I am looking for your help.

  I downloaded all the new Vista drivers avaiable from Toshiba in support of the new installation of Vista business on my old Portege M400, that came preloaded with a version of XP Tablet and kept their loan on a CD.

  I also upgraded the version of the ACPI BIOS to the latest available 3.80.

  I insert the first CD of Vista professional and do a boot. (I also have a n upgrade Vista Business CD but I want to do a clean install).
  I go past the first steps and choose Install.
  I am faced with an error message "no disk has been found. "Click on load a driver to provide a device for installing mass storage.

  Looks like Vista is not able to see the IDE drive to the edge and it's a driver problem.

  I touched the "Rescan" button available on the windows installation and another message appears: "no device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct driver, and then click OK. »

  Currently loaded on the XP: currently loaded poster IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers like Device Manager: "Intel (R) 82801 G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers and primary IDE channel."

  Hard drives shown are: Toshiba RAID SCSI Disk Device LD0

  Pls tell, what new drivers since available downloads of drivers Vista for my model 400 ML PPM40E, should I choose here for my Vista installation recognizes the disk available?

  Hello

  It is very easy to solve this problem.
  If you would look on the page of the European driver Toshiba (Portege M400 section), then you will notice that a RAID driver is available for this model of laptop.

  Impossible to install Vista because it cannot find the HARD drive due to lack of RAID driver!

  You must install the RAID driver first and then you can proceed with the installation of Vista.
  As far as I know the Vista installation accepting the USB flash key you can use this key to include the RAID driver.

  Hope I could give some useful advice.

  Cheers mate

• Portege M400: Is it possible to receive and make calls with the SIM card

  Is it possible to receive and make calls with the card SIM module in the Portege M400?

  I know that you can send and receive sms messeges, which, according to me, the software is not all good because you can't hold much, and you can't send to ems or mms.

  But there may be other software here?

  Hello

  What software do you mean exactly?

  As far as I know that the MobiLink was preinstalled on some units Portege M400.
  This software supports these features:
  Send and receive SMS, composition and read TEXT messages in several languages, compose and send to multiple recipients, the mobile contacts address book support, Rich edit for the launch of URL and Email using embedded addresses.

  As you can see that you can not use this software to make calls!
  And unfortunately other software does not know me :(

  With regard to the MobiLink Communications Software Suite;
  The details can be verified here:
  http://www.novatelwireless.com/products/solutions/MobiLink.html

  Greetings

• Portege M400: Matter of time life battery

  Hello
  I am looking to buy a tablet PC - was having a look at Portege M400 and model Tecra T7. Although the battery life would be tolerable, I suppose it depends on how you have configured the computer and how to use it - and I'd certainly a margin of safety for more than 5 hours (3 on the tecra). These models have the ability to swap a new battery in and out easily, or install a second battery to increase life expectancy?

  Thank you
  Jonathan

  Hello

  I found Info for this model of laptop it there two Slice Expansion battery available:
  PA3510U-1BAL
  PA3510U-1BRL

  I put t know if it is that you need a little more, but google and look for the info.

• Portege M400 is frozen, screen goes black and the fan speed increases when moved

  Can someone help me please?

  I recently received the Portege M400 from a friend 4 days ago and reformatted for Windows XP Tablet Edition.
  Everything's fine until I wanted to move the laptop to my coffee table, but as soon as I move the laptop it freezes, the screen goes black and the fan speed increases dramatically.
  So far I have had no success in the resolution of this problem and I really appreciated, is that someone could help me!

  Have you installed the OS using a Toshiba recovery media or you have installed the version of the OS?