Re: Portege 3440CT - starting problems

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• Re: Portege 500 - starting problems

  I have the following problem with my Portege 500:

  When I turn on the computer the laptop appears to hang with a black screen, no icon of Toshiba and no Windows icon.
  Light blue hard drive indicates that the computer is something.
  After waiting for a time very, very long time (can be hours) I disable the hard way by pressing the off button for a few seconds.
  When I start her again the computer starts up normally and is in Windows in less than a minute.
  The issue also appears sometimes when I start it from sleep mode.

  I have Windows XP with all updates on the computer. I downgraded from Vista, after slow performance.

  I lie in the newest bios.

  I had the computer on service once when I had Vista on it because I've lived that I think has similar problems. According to me, once again to send to the service.

  A solution out there?

  Best regards
  By
  Norway

  Have you tried to reinstall Windows XP already?
  And try if this happens when you use your laptop only on battery and only on the AC adapter / CC. Perhaps this can clearify something.

• Portege R100 - starting problems

  Hi all

  just got a used R100, has got to eBay.

  the first problem - to start the system.
  says "insert system disk" permanently
  No matter what camera you select to boot from the
  do not enter the bios update mode
  inherited settings are set to 'active' in the BIOS

  When you plug a usb key, a LED on is displayed for 1 second and then fate

  I turned on to the first time he received a message that the RTC battery is dead...
  I don't know if maybe it's the cause of all that.
  the last test is now to get a USB floppy drive, I'm not sure, but this might help I guess
  is or maybe replace the RTC battery - replaceable?

  Try to boot Linux via PXE, but I'm not too well known in this...

  BIOS version is 1.30

  Any other ideas/suggestions how to start this device?

  At a first connect the laptop to the power running and let it at least 48 hours. The CMOS battery is overloaded.

  What message, you see at startup? Somehow the HARD drive is not ready for start-up.
  The question is what is with the HARD drive. HARD drive recognized in BIOS and listed as boot device?
  Maybe is the faulty HARD disk. HARD drive controller is maybe defective?

  Do you have news of all this?

• Portege 3440CT: how to format HARD drive

  Hi all

  After suffering a little frustration, I decided to use the wealth of knowledge and experience which is available on the support forum.

  I have a Portege 3440CT which has been delivered to my friend a few years ago, by a company she worked at the time. When the company replaced the laptop, we were allowed to keep the old, we use very occasionally. Unfortunately, the laptop has recently experienced a failure total and irrecoverable from the original hard drive, which was not a huge setback because there was no essential data there.

  In any case, I have from a compatible spare hard drive - a Hitachi 30 GB ATA-5 / IDE 2.5 "9.5 mm 4200 RPM, Pt not ' DK23CA-30F - and mounted, but as the hard disk is not formatted the laptop does not see it is there. As I said earlier, the laptop was provided by the employer, so we are not in possession of any recovery disks Toshiba or Windows that may have been provided, the laptop was originally running Windows 98 Second edition, and the sticker detailing the product key is always on the underside.

  I approached one of the suppliers of services of Toshiba for help and they directed me to Toshiba.
  Toshiba says that the laptop is no longer supported so they directed me to a service provider, I went around in circles.

  My question is, if I bought a copy of Windows 98 SE, or Windows XP and installed on the external floppy drive, which would also include a facility to format the hard drive? I think that in Windows 98 Second edition, there was a function of FDISK. I was able to access the pages of the BIOS after looking through advice given here, I can change the order of boot with no problems

  What I request, essentially, is that now, I have installed a new hard drive, what do I do next?

  > My question is, if I bought a copy of Windows 98 SE, or Windows XP and installed on the external floppy drive, which would also include a facility to format the hard drive?

  Yes, definitely Yes! The installation of Win98or of other versions of Windows like W2K or XP provides an option to format the HARD drive before installing the operating system.
  Simply boot from the bootable CD to get this feature.

• Can't connect CD-ROM (portege 3440CT)

  My portege 3440CT still cannot connect my external CD-ROM (EagleTec-AND-RXD2600, PCMCIA).

  I want to reinstall my laptop but I can't do it without this CD I have download the boot disk to EagleTec web BACK but still do not work.

  Hello

  When you go to
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com - Support & Download - Download Driver you might find for your Portege 3440 (W98SE) a companion disk.

  This disc is also a startup disk and is responsible for the detection of external CD ROM

  Another suggestion is to go about this:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1881&MessageID=5098#5098
  You will find a discussion of the same problem. I hope this will help you.

  Good bye

• Too bright light on the screen of Portege 3440CT (running Windows 2000)

  Hello

  Do you know how to reduce the brightness on the screen of the laptop Portege 3440CT running Windows 2000?

  I have another question about the 3440CT Portege battery: battery charge never, I can't solve the problem, I left the power supply 8 days but battery levy at all! I had the same problem with a second battery?

  Any ideas?

  Kind regards
  Jerome

  Hi jnessi,

  as far as I know, you can change the brightness of the P3440 with the key Fn and F2! Agic otherwise your settings in the tool!

  If two batteries are as old as the portege, it may be that this batteries are too old!
  Otherwise your electronic of power supply is damaged, but I do not! ;-)

  Good bye

• Installation of Win2k on Portege 3440CT

  I just hand over a (damaged) Portege 3440CT without a hard drive. I have no external drives, but I am trying to install an operating system. I can boot in DOS, if I format a hard drive to make it bootable (I used a Toshiba non bootable USB utility or by placing it in a machine DOS from a floppy).

  If I put the installation of Win2K disk files and run I386\winnt.exe installation begins, copies the files to the hard drive (no matter whether they are in the same partition) and restart ' to continue installation', except that it isn't. He just restsrts and is there with a flashing _.

  Am I missing something? Did I try already worked? Any suggestions?

  Neil

  PS. the damage is one of the hinges, I want to make a picture frame.

  Hello, Neil

  I'm glad to hear that you have installed W2K on this laptop old but nice. Thanks for the comments. If you have time, maybe you explain in detail how you did that. In my view, it may be useful for other people who have that old model laptop.

  I assume that you have created two partitions on the HARD drive, copied the I386 folder on the second and from there begins the process facilities. Am I right about that?

• Update BIOS on Portege 3440CT.

  Hello!

  I have a Portege 3440CT with version 1.50 of bios.

  This version does not support large HARD drive so I thought I would update to the BIOS. (I do not know if the version 1.60 don't either, does anyone know?)

  When I try to run the program to update the bios on win2000, he says: 'Initial error', someone knows what is the cause?

  BIOS is downloaded from the Web Toshibas website.

  I have no floppy or CD-rom available.
  Have you tried the update on win98 and also in the BACK and he says ' this not available in v86 mode utility!

  Is it possible to place the BIOS on a small hard drive and boot from that?

  Ideas, anyone?

  Sorry CyB, but I really don't understand you. If you see the Toshiba support page you will find two updates to the BIOS. Two of them must be done using the floppy drive. So now I'm wondering why you try to do it under operating system running. Sorry, but this is really ridiculous.

  Toshiba offer two different BIOS updates. One is TRAD (must be done with the FDD) and WIN (can be done under WXP or now Vista). For old models of laptops there is no version of WIN.

  Is it possible to place the BIOS on a small hard drive and boot from that?

  As far as I know something like this is not possible and you can check eBay and get the FDD. You can get it for little money. It's really cheap.

• Portege 3440CT: update my O.S.

  I have a Toshiba - Portege 3440CT. My operating system is Windows 98, distributed by Toshiba. Now I need an update for my O.S. and I am looking for Windows 2000 or more. I need a help.
  Thank you

  Hi Octavian,

  You are very lucky. You re Portege 3440CT are supported for Windows 2000.
  The best way to install the new OS is to use the original recovery CD Toshiba. If you do not have one you need to install all of the individual drivers.

  On the next page, you can find the necessary drivers:

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

  Good bye

• Satellite L - starting problem

  I used my new Toshiba laptop about 6 months ago - no prpblems. These last days I have starting problems. I turn it on and Toshiba logo appears on the screen, and Windows does not start. Toshiba Logo remains on as frozen screen and laptop keyboard does not respond. I turn it back on works and that's okay - wimdows starts normally. Startup Repair does not detect any problems.

  What can be?

  Hi oktay,.

  What model of laptop you have exactly? I can t find this information in your ad.

  If the laptop hangs on the Toshiba logo, it has nothing to do with Windows and it s hardware related issue.
  Have you connected external devices? If Yes, remove them all and try to boot up your laptop.

• Starting problems. - RunDLL32.exe, procedure entry point_except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link librarymsvcrt.dll

  I get the message RunDLL32.exe, procedure entry point_except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link librarymsvcrt.dll. What should I do?

  I had starting problems, boot loop, I think it seems to have been resolved by using the last known good configuration, but I get this popup dialog box. I've not closed for fear that it will start XP looping again.

  Hi EddieBryan,

  1. did you of recent changes on the computer?

  2. do you have security software installed on the computer?

  3. when exactly you receive the error message?

  Method 1
  Check if the problem persists in safe mode and after return with the result.
  A description of the options to start in Windows XP Mode
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/315222

  Method 2
  If the problem does not persist in safe mode, then it is possible that some third-party programs installed on the computer is causing the problem.
  I suggest that you configure the computer in a clean boot state and check if it helps.
  To help resolve the error and other messages, you can start Windows XP by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This type of boot is known as a "clean boot". A clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.
  See section to learn more about how to clean boot.
  How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" State
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310353
  Reset the computer to start as usual
  When you are finished troubleshooting, follow these steps to reset the computer to start as usual:
  1. click on Start , then click run.
  2. type msconfig , then click OK.
  The System Configuration Utility dialog box appears.
  3. click on the general tab, click Normal Startup - load all services and device drivers and then click OK.
  4. When prompted, click on restart to restart the computer.

  Method 3

  If the previous step fails then I suggest that scan you SFC on the computer that will search the corrupted system files and try to correct them.

  The analysis may take some time, so be patient. Windows allows to fix corrupt or missing files it finds. If the information of the installation CD is required to fix the problem, you may be asked to insert your Windows XP installation CD.

  Description of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 System File Checker (Sfc.exe)

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310747

  You are prompted to insert a Windows XP SP2 CD when you try to run the tool on a Windows XP SP2 computer system File Checker

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/900910

• Win 7 intermittent starting problems

  My wife birhtday, I bought a new desktop PC 500-281 HP Pavillion through Win 7 clips in July of 2014. Intermittently the machine hangs at startup. Usually, he gets to "Starting Windows" screen and freezes, windows logo is not launched. When I shut off and restart, usually the screen asking if I want to start windows normally or start the Startup Repair utility. Should I choose one of these options and the machine works very well, sometimes I can shoose an option and the machine hangs again. Startup Repair shows no problem. When I'm on Windows I ran antivirus (AVG, McAfee, bitsMalware IO) analyses all upward with no problem. The machine is connected to ethernet (not wireless) a of the USB connections and: mouse, keyboard, external hard drive WD, printer Canon, Logitech webcam. All of this worked well on the old box. I have checked/updated all the drivers for external and all devices are updated. I checked the BIOS and Windows Connection Manager is the first start. This is a report of start-gel 60/40 at the moment and it happened that the staples of 14 days return policy. Any advice? My wife is extremely frustrated! (as a result so I am!)

  Hi Bob,

  I would test equipment (systems and components) to restarting your PC and pressing "ESC". A defective material is usually behind on a new PC erratic behavior. Despite a software driver problem which is very unlikely, component, causing this type of symptom can be the power supply. This point of failure (power) is not detected using HP diagnostics. If material tests pass and this isn't a software driver problem, through the process of elimination, it can be the power supply.

  In the start menu select F2 and run diagnostics.

  If all tests pass, try to use the PC with HP supplied only devices (mouse, keyboard, and Ethernet connection) to see if the system stabilizes.

  Let me know how it goes. We can try additional troubleshooting if the advice above does not help.

  Finally, you need to maybe to back up important data and do a factory restore. Then, run the system without installing any additional software and only HP devices connected.

  Always start problems? Now is the time to contact the HP Support.

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• Portege 3440CT OS install problems

  Hello
  Just decided to dig my 3440 ct that has Windows 98se on it and reformat an update with XP. He has only 64 MB at the moment, but I thought that if all goes well, then I would switch to 192 MB and whack in a disk that is larger than the original drive 6 gb for the moment. I have the floppy a usb card pcmcia (a Toshiba one).

  When I try to install XP, it sees the Cd and begins starting the process, for example. loading devices. But whenever it gets to the last line says «the installation program starts now...» "it crashes with a blue screen with an error"0x0000007B"that I find something to do with the boot drive.

  Then I deleted the diving and installed XP properly on a desktop computer using an adapter, put it back in the laptop it starts very well until the first wime you see the XP logo and then crashes with the same error

  Then I tried a 60 GB drive, I had in my laptop main that I know works fine and got exactly the same message.

  I then tried Windows 2000 which had the same problems, but eventually worked with 98SE. I tried both with FAT and NTFS and I installed the latest version of bios 1.60. But in vain.

  Someone at - it good ideas as to what im doing wrong?

  Hello

  When you install the restore CD is a simple file and when the external drive is just plugged and recognized that it is not problem to install it but when you install the original version of Microsoft installation must be interrupted and the unit should restart for the installation continues. At the moment the external drive can not be found anymore. I assume that this is the problem in your case.

  Try to create two partitions and copy the CD Win on the second partition and try again to install the unit.

• Portege 3440CT problem running slow XP PRO OS

  I recently bought the laptop above which is running XP PRO. He has a problem that when lit it takes 1 hour to load the operating system. Loading the operating system, sequences or orders may take up to 1/2 hour to recognize.

  It worked fine in the past.

  Is not the display of error messages.

  I can't run all the tests that the OS is so slow.

  It has a 50 GB hard drive, which is unusual for this model.

  I want to reload the OS but don't have no original Toshiba recovery disks or CD drive, floppy drive.

  If I format the drive through BACK and ask the laptop to boot from the CD, what port think it that the CD is connected to. If it is the PCMCIA slot that does not first have the drivers loaded.

  The FDD connects to the port replicator, or directly to the laptop and I could start from here.

  I have a home XP or Windows 98SE boot floppy disk.

  I have a knowledge of computers, can help please.

  Hello

  If it works well in the past how should we now why it doesn t work well. Who knows what you have done.
  I recommend you:
  -clean the operating system
  -Remove all unnecessary applications
  -Analyze the HARD disk for viruses and spyware
  -check the msconfig tool and disable all items that you need not start
  -use the Defragmenter disk and HARD disk access will be faster

  If you have limited computer knowledge talk with your friends. Maybe some of them can help you.

• Portege 3010 ct start problems

  whenever I start my portege, I get a screen showing a picture of a portege and an arrow pointing to what looks like a hard drive icon.
  I can't not past that somehow that I can see, insert the disks when I start doesn't do anything either. does anyone have any ideas of how to slove it?

  I think maybe the hard drive reformatted but need I got things on what I want back.

  I have pictures if anyone needs to see what I see at startup, just message me and I can send them to you.

  Thank you

  Try to start your laptop with a Windows boot CD. Press C or F12 to get the machine to boot from.

  If it works, you can back up your data and then use the recovery CD to restore your system.

  BR
  Michael