Portege R500-124: where to get DVD Reovery

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• Portege R400-106 - where to get the DVD of Windows Vista 64-bit?

  Hello:

  ordered this laptop with 4 GB, but the operating system is Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit, which means I can't use more than 3 GB.

  Could you please tell where to get DVD Ultimate 64 - bit Windows Vista so that I can upgrade?

  Please, can you send me an email to [email protected]?

  Thank you.

  Do you mean the 3 GB of RAM?

  Could you please tell where to get DVD Ultimate 64 - bit Windows Vista so that I can upgrade?

  For now, Toshiba does not support 64-bit operating system and the drivers for Vista 64-bit are not available.

  If you wish, you can purchase Microsoft 64 - bit Windows Vista Ultimate DVD facilities and try to install it on your laptop Portege.

• Portege R500: XP Installation with CD/DVD external USB - SOLUTION drive

  Hi all!

  I just wanted to take five minutes to inform you that installing XP on a Portégé R500 with external USB CD/DVD drive is possible, even if you have already deleted Vista and with a CD bootable XP Win in hand.

  First go into your BIOS and check / set first boot device is CD/DVD player

  Start your installation of win XP from the CD without the F6 thing and let go his way

  After some time, the installation stops and says "cannot find the file xxxx" and you are invited to tell where is this file

  "" Just replace the drive letter "C:" which is given by default with the letter of your CD/DVD drive (and leave the rest as it is) and the installation will continue until the next "cannot find...". "and you need to again replace the drive letter, etc...

  After a complete installation 'automatic assisted manual', you are welcome in Win XP!

  The next question is "where can I find my CD/DVD drive letter?" and the answer is "it's the next letter after your last HARD drive letter" (I consider you have only your Portege with nothing else plugged that your CD/DVD) so more often it will be 'E' C: being the first partition of your HARD disc : is the hidden / recovery partition that winning creates.

  But don't worry, if you type try to the wrong letter, that you will have as much as you want until you find the good and the following "cannot find...". "it will remain the same.

  I hope that this information will help some of you who want a fresh installation of win XP from a newly formatted HARD disk.

  With sincere friendships.

  Mage.

  What a great information!
  Thanks a lot for posting this.

  I think it might be useful to others here.

  Good bye

• Portege R500 - all chances of getting a kit of renovation of 3G (UMTS/HSDPA)

  I just bought my Toshiba R500 here in Germany about three weeks ago. A few days ago, I received information that Toshiba will soon offer the R500 with integrated UMTS/HSDPA modem.
  Even more surprising: the price seems to be the same, there is no price increase.

  So, I just bought a R500 with 64 GB of SSD three weeks ago and he is already OLD. I've always wanted the R500 with integrated 3G but my dealer told me that there is no information that Toshiba will offer such a product. Of course, I can still use my 3G Express card with a PCMCIA card, but to be honest, it seems silly to have that thing sticking out of the R500.

  Now, here's my question, because I am sure that other customers are too affected: is wise and customer Toshiba kind enough to offer some kind of kit of renovation of the 3gs for the R500? I know that there is space, including for the reader of card SIM, but if Toshiba does not offer a kit of renovation, any modification may void the warranty and it can also do not work as it should.

  Chances to get a 3G (UMTS/HSDPA) renovation for the R500 kit any time soon? I love my R500 but without integrated 3G, it truly annoys from time to time (btw: the s.cks Word is censored, funny).

  Retro Kit 3G? : D

  Hey Buddy AFAIK the 3G card must be connected to the motherboard, and if someone wants to upgrade the small Portege R500, thin with this card you will need to disassemble the whole laptop.
  This would void the warranty.

  I m not sure if it of possible to modernize the R500 with such card but if yes, then you should contact the ASP in your county for such a procedure.

  I have already seen that the Portege R500 equipped with module 3G / UMTS (3.6 Mbps) high-speed.
  Maybe it's better to sell your R500 and buy a new one with the card 3G s? ;)

  Best regards

• Portege A100 (PPA10A) - where to get spare parts?

  Hi all

  I have a Portege A100 PPA10A, he is old enough and the cable from the Touchpad to the motherboard is broken. N that anyone know the part number for this cable or knows where I can get the part number?

  I sent an email to a place called "spare = parts Warehouse", but they had trouble finding the part

  But if anyone knows for sure, that would be great.

  Kind regards

  Widget

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  Hi Widget,

  To be honest, I doubt anyone here can tell you the part number of this cable. It s only a user to user forum where you can talk with normal people like you and me.

  In my opinion, you should contact the closest service provider authorized in your country. On the Toshiba site, you can find a list of them:
  www.MyToshiba.com.au > Support > find a Service Centre

  Good luck! :)

• Portege R500 - software of WinDVD and DVD writing

  We bought a lot of R500 notebooks and put our brand image on them, but I can't find the software WinDVD or writing software of DVD on the DVD provided with the machines or on the download page. Are they available? We do not want to use the image that comes with the machine, as it has too much pre-installed software.

  Thank you.

  Why ask you the same thing for the second time?

  Please check you first thread:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=31764&TSTART=0

  Good bye

• Portege R500 - no work Mat * a DVD - RAM UJ - 844 S USB Device

  My DVD drive has stopped working and the properties of the device show that "Windows cannot initializze the device of this material (Code 37) driver
  Look for solutions that produce nothing and I tried to update the driver but it says that I have the current driver but "windows...". "encountered an error trying to install it.

  I tried to uninstall and reinstall with the same results.

  Any ideas?

  I don't know if this can help but check it anyway
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ8101LA0000R01.htm

• Re: Constant cut on Portege R500

  Hey guys,.

  Just bought a model Portege R500-124 (XP Pro) and I must say I'm in love! But I'm having real trouble trying to get my WiFi to stay connected to my home network...

  It disconnects constantly, about once every minute and a half - and then decides to reconnect. Anyone have any idea why? I just can't understand it - I thought it might just be intrinsically problems with our network settings, but I don't think that's the question that we have three other workstations connected without difficulty.

  This problem has existed since the first day (today is day 5/6) - and have resorted to another machine to ask this question!

  What's funny is that sometimes, the connection is holds up to a few hours without any problem, but on the last day and a half, he refuses to hold the signal strength is excellent. and the location of the Portege at home, it's the same as my previous laptop - so I don't think it's a physical environmental problem...

  Is that what the problem of ideas? Really appreciate it... I tried unplugging my router (Netgear); Download the latest Intel drivers for the wireless card, try to change the configuration of the network card detect N in order to detect all a, b and g that my router transmits only up to g.

  Thanks in advance

  PS
  I tried the Toshiba diagnostics prog. and he spotted some problems when the connection suddenly drops - but as soon as he resumes himself that the diagnosis comes as clear - time between dc and the reconnection is 10 seconds or more! So whatever it can automatically display problems disappear and I can never read them in time...

  Have you tried to update the driver WLan?

  Check this box:
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/WLAN/

  In addition, it might be desirable to update the BIOS
  I read that this could help

• Portege R500 - keyboard USB Legacy support does not work

  I have a Portege R500-124

  I use it to dock in the office and the lid is closed, so I need to enter a password for DriveCrypt and generally control the boot/BIOS from a USB keyboard. But no matter what I set the setting that is inherited from the USB in the BIOS, the USB keyboard does not work. I tried the keyboard connected directly to the R500 when undocked and it's all the same. I also tried BIOS 1.6 and that's all the same.

  USB keys are working and I can boot from them, but no work of measures (for example, F12 to choose the BOOT device) keyboard - the R500 doesn't seem to have the functional USB keyboard support until an operating system (Windows or Linux) has started.

  Any ideas?

  Ian

  > .the R500 does not appear to be the functional USB keyboard support until an operating system (Windows or Linux) has started.

  I can't confirm this, but I'm afraid you're right about that.

• Need CD/DVD writer drivers for Windows XP on Portege R500

  According to the Installation Instructions on the Toshiba Portege R500 with Windows XP for driver download site, I need Toshiba disc Creator V2.0.0.8 and Toshiba Direct Disk Writer V1.1.0.0 for my engraver of CD/DVD.

  None of these is available among the files on the Toshiba Portege R500 with Windows XP driver download site. Where can I get these drivers?

  Hello Ad

  I imagine that you are a little confused about missing drivers, but actually, you should install only the stuff offered on the Toshiba download page.

  Please, do it and test drive optical with a burning software like Nero and you will see that everything works correctly.

  One more thing about this document Instructions of facilities: this list is the same as the use for creating Toshiba recovery image. Recovery image contains many more things that you can find on the download page. I don't want to explain now why is it and for WXP feature on Portege R500 is not so important.

  Important for you is to download all the stuff and install it following this order facilities.

  All that s!

  One last thing: I have heard that Toshiba will create DVDs from Windows XP Home edition for professional laptops recovery. I'm sure you can order this DVD of Windows XP Home edition. Try to contact the partner of service allowed in your country and ask if they can order one for you.

• Where can I find XP x 64 drivers for Portege R500 - hotkey / power management?

  Where can I find the downloads that will enable the power management or hotkey support for my Portege R500?

  I already installed the drivers for everything except the fingerprint reader (do not want), tpm (really envy) and hdd (tos620a) motion sensor (not embarrassed at this time). Most of the drivers are recent original sites of the seller or, in the absence of those, leaving Toshiba 64-bit Vista download areas.

  Everything else works generally: wifi, graphics & chipset, sound, lan, bluetooth stack, cardbus, card reader, etc.

  However, after doing this, are the following questions:

  FN keys do not work for suspend to ram, suspend-to-disk, * screen * brightness *-essential to extend the life. FN keys for digital/Board pad, rocker of external surveillance * work

  Dedicated toggle backlight button does nothing

  However, in order to get the lifetime of battery beyond ~2.5 hours and closest alongside 7.1 hours, I need to turn things down / stop occasionally. What software can help and where I can get, as it runs on Windows XP x 64 edition?

  Note:

  I tried packages of 32-bit xp which provides Toshiba, they do not seem to work on x 64. The package 'chopsticks' requires 'cmod', but 'cmod' gives this error:

  Installation of Modules common TOSHIBA
  Not an ACPI machine. Cannot install TOSHIBA ACPI peripheral logic.
  Ok

  I tried the 32-bit xp package called 'pwrsav '; It installs a bad help link in my Start menu and adds a few exes, tpsmain and tpsoddctl, to my automatically starts. These 32-bit executables left immediately after execution.

  I tried to install packages of 64-bit Vista from Toshiba hotkeys / common modules / power management, but the only one of the three I can find via toshiba.co.uk is the common modules, and unfortunately this zip file contains only .inf, .cat and .sys files, no program installation.

  Motivation:
  I use a new installation at the same time because the default installation of Vista is unusable (900 MB of memory used on a fresh startup desktop, disk divided into several partitions, trial, adware and with broken software at left and right)
  I use x 64 because I am software engineer the next product needs to work on x 64, and this new laptop was a likely first candidate

  Hello

  Bad news first :(

  The European driver Toshiba page provides the drivers for XP 32 bit and Vista (32-bit & 64-bit).
  I did find all the drivers for XP 64-bit OS.

  As much as I know XP 64-bit drivers is not exist for one of the series of Toshiba laptops.

  Now a new better ;)

  I found a tool called display Tuner.
  It offers convenient access to the monitor settings, such as brightness, contrast, color settings.

  Perhaps this is an option for you.
  Google a bit

  See you soon

• Portege R500 - DVD is no longer working

  Someone at - it ideas why my DVD drive has stopped working?

  I have a Portege R500 - 11 c and in Device Manager I have a yellow exclamation mark against Bus USB controllers / USB Mass Storage Device
  When I click through for more details, he said:

  Location: Port_ #0004.Hub_ #0005

  "This device cannot start. (Code 10)

  Click on 'Search for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available. »

  Search for Solutions has the answer.

  It is strange because it is power to the player, when I put a disc in I can hear him pull up, but it becomes visible to the machine!

  Pointers would be useful.

  see you soon,
  David

  If a yellow exclamation point appears in the device, close the USB hubs\controller Manager, then a USB driver problem would be possible.
  In most cases, a new installation of USB might help to get rid of this annoying problem of USB.

  -Remove and disconnect all external USB devices that are connected to the laptop.
  -Go to the Device Manager and remove the USB hubs and USB controllers.
  -reboot the machine.

  New OS reboot should reinstall USB drivers, and the operating system should recognize the USB ports again. After this short intervention, connect the external USB CD. DVD player and check if it would show up in my computer

  Good bye

• Portege R500 - CD/DVD drive no longer works

  Does anyone found a resolution to this?

  Like David, my DVD Multidrive on my R500 abruptly arrested recently - I can open/close the player, but he does not appear in Windows Explorer as a disk is valid. Do not think that I have nothing installed on the machine.

  Interestingly, I never really use the DVD player. Indeed, because of all the * heat * questions, I used to "Power Off" of the device, via the DVD icon in the system tray (i.e. option enabled me to Power on / off the unit). So while the power was OFF, it's cold the machine, and so the fan was rarely on.

  Now that my computer no longer recognizes the drive, this icon it simply shows that disabled, no possibility to the power on/off switch, and this noisy fan is almost always on. In addition, because it seems that the machine tries to recognize the drive subject time at startup, all re-start, reboot the machine now takes a few minutes to start...

  For the optical drive firmware update help? Or is there some other fix?

  Hello

  > but my Portege R500 CD/DVD drive has stopped working the next day, I had attached an external CD - RW drive for me to burn discs. Maybe it did disable my built-in drive?
  This could be the key;
  Try to access the Device Manager and remove the CD/DVD player listed and all USB host controllers and USB root hub.

  Again, restart the laptop.
  After new check restart if the CD/DVD drive has been recognized again.

• Portege R500 - is not reading DVDS and software of DVD writer?

  We have a few notebooks Portege R500 and put our brand on them image very well.
  I can't find the DVD playback software and the software editor of DVD on the download site, is it available? It comes pre-installed on the computer, but we do not want to use the image it comes with.

  Thank you

  This additional software is only part of the image of Toshiba and can be downloaded from the Toshiba driver page!
  If you want to use the software if you need to buy a version full or you will switch to the image of Toshiba.

• Portege R500 - network Constant interruptions

  I have a Portege R500 with Windows XP (SP3 now, but same problem with SP2 and same problem before and after all reinstall them), and the network continues to interrupt. It's desperately irritating, because I work a lot of ssh connections, and almost every time the connection breaks I lose some work. The best of cases, it's that I have to log in again and continue where I was.

  This happens regardless of whether I use WIFI or wired network, and sometimes little matter where I am - home, office, coffee internet, that, is not my connection. The network is interrupted every 15-30 minutes, and sometimes as I type or loading a page, while other times it seems just to occur. It is usually easy to tell when it happens, because all the ssh connections instantly hang, all my messenger connections are broken and Outlook complains that he has lost the connection to the Exchange Server. The connections Outlook and messenger do not realize anything is wrong before the connection started actually working again, which has probably something to do with TCP or ICMP messages finally get through, but it's really strange that TCP is not only address the problem transparently - the physical connection is never interrupted for long.

  I guess that it probably has something to do with energy saving, but I have been unable to resolve in setting energy saving settings. Also, I have the same problem, regardless of the question of whether the laptop is powered.

  (Probably?) it is not a hardware failure, because I don't have the same problem in Ubuntu Linux and memtest does not report the errors of memory. (Speaking of which, is there a memory testing tool or self test tool integrated with this laptop?).

  Any suggestion would be appreciated. I tried calling the number of local support twice, but it didn't help much to get there.

  Thanks a lot for this great info