Re: Satellite U300-13U: Question on installing XP

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• Satellite U300-13U - can't read or burn a DVD

  I recently had to install Windows 7 Professional and Office 2010 on my Satellite U300-13U, as it appeared, that I had a virus. My DVD didn't work initially after the new facility, about a month ago. But now I can't play a DVD, nor can I burn on a DVD.

  Can you help me? Diane

  HI diane83,

  Is the CD/DVD drive listed in Device Manager can and you will see if you open my computer? Maybe it s just a driver problem and so the CD/DVD drive isn't recognized properly. Check Device Manager and if you can see the reader of CD/DVD right click it and select uninstall. This will remove the drive, and if you restart the computer it will automatically be recognized.

  Check this box!

• Where can I get a minPCI card for Satellite U300-13U Bluetooth?

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba Satellite U300-13U which when I bought it I thought a bluetooth but it doesn't...

  There is a mini PCI express slot I can see next to the WiFi card, but I can't find anywhere that sells a mini PCIe card bluetooth, can anyone recommend one or a Duel WiFi / Bluetooth.

  I use a bluetooth USB dongle but want it built in.

  Thank you!
  Graeme

  I guess that your laptop has the part PSU30E-xxxxx number. All models with PSU31E-xxxx have BT on board. All these books have BT label on the lower side with part number for the BT module. Maybe someone can give you this number.

  To be honest, you must be sure if BT update is possible or not. I imagine that you will not be able to be upgraded. If possible, contact the service provider allowed in your country and ask if anything like that is possible. They must know this.

• Satellite U300 - no sound after installing Windows XP Home edition

  First of all sorry for my bad English; P
  I installed Windows XP Pro on my computer and all the drivers with installation instructions, but I have no sound, there is no audio device. I downloaded the drivers from the Toshiba site and the Realtek site. Both do not work.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Check this thread http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=99567 please

  There is some discussion on the similar problem. Maybe it will help you with your Satellite U300.

  Bye and good luck!

• Satellite U300-13U - iTunes has detected a problem with the audio configuration

  Please can someone help me? I have a laptop U300-13U and that you have installed iTunes on it. However, when I open iTunes I get an error message saying 'iTunes has detected a problem with the audio configuration and may not play correctly' which is an understatement - it does not at all!

  I uninstalled, reinstalled iTunes and Quicktime, but in vain. I have searched and exhausted the iTunes support boards but have nowhere either. The sound is fine as I can read CDs with no problems at all. The only suggestion I can get is that there may be a problem with the audio device magnet is not Apple and vice versa.

  Does anyone have AN idea at all as to what might be going on here? I'm completely out of my depth, I'm just a simple girl who wants to play his music!

  Thank you so much.

  Hello

  I don t use iTunes so I m not an expert player but first of all, you must give us some important information:
  -What operating system do you use?
  -Are you using the factory settings (Toshiba Recovery disk) or your own version of Windows
  -Do you have the yellow exclamation marks in Device Manager?

  OK, iTunes says that there is an audio configuration problem so do you trying to update the audio driver? If this isn't the case, you should try it.
  See the Web from Toshiba site for an update and see what happens. Then validate your result:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com-online decision-making supported Downloads & => Download drivers

  Welcome them

• Satellite U300-13U - DVD playback is choppy

  Hello

  I have a U300 13U and since it is I was unable to watch DVD because reading is so jerky. I tried many different programs to DVD player and it makes no difference. I tried to install many video codecs, but the problem persists. The DVD player plays audio CDs fine so I don't think it's a problem with that. I thought that there would be other things are:

  -problems with the video/graphics card?
  -need a upgrade memory (although 2 GB should be more than enough for a DVD)?
  -problems with vista (and it's General drain on the CPU)?

  I was wondering if anyone else has had similar problems and if someone thinks it is worth upgrading the RAM or install XP?

  All advice appreciated.

  Becky.

  Hello

  Have you tried the VLC media player for DVDs? A few days ago, I also noticed some problems with reading DVD on Windows media player, but with VLC media player, I've never had a problem.
  The player is a free and easy to use software. Use Google to find out.

  You use the factory settings or you have installed your own version of Windows?
  Have you installed all the service packs and updates?

• Satellite P200D-128 - Question about installed Norton anti-virus

  Hi, I bought a Toshiba Satellite P200D-128 last week and to say I'm majorly annoyed with Toshiba would be an understatement, and that understatement. Fine machine autoinstalled as its operating system, and I found I had Norton anti-virus installed, or at least I thought I had because a beautiful Norton logo quicklink arrived on my desk.

  In fact, only a partial shell of Norton installed and actually have an anti-virus properly functioning to connect on the site of Norton. This arrangement is just stupid, because I am well aware, surf the Internet without effective antivirus / anti-malware is not a question of if the computer will get infected, but when the computer will be infected.
  I have the experience to build my own desktop PC, and basically what I do is install an anti-virus package from the DVD drive with a front disc even connect the machine to the internet and then update the anti-virus software anti-virus Internet home before that I would all navigation on the web.

  Not only have a Norton Quicklink on the center of office crazy to think one has a functioning entirely anti-virus / anti-malware installed, but the partial shell of fools Norton also Windows Vista security in thinking there are a lot of anti-virus installed and it also disables the alert windows system that will remind the user of the computer if there is no antivirus installed package.

  This situation should never have been raised and I think it's a shame. Also criminal elements no doubt major behind the likes of malware, which struck upward on the ploy clever to have infected unsuspecting computer user with malicious software, which uses then the malware to put up a false messages of Windows operating system, which informs the user of the computer has been infected and asking them to download a fake anti-virus packages , must be particularly delighted with this situation, in that a user will be once they see such a message may well click the link of Norton and probably find their Norton is only a partial shell and then install one of the packages most likely fake anti-virus.

  If Toshiba and Norton had deliberately set to infect the computers of users with viruses and other malware, it is difficult to see how they could have done a better job of it, unless they had pre-installed viruses and malware themselves on the computer.
  I wonder, this case went to Toshiba and/or / attention of Norton and if so, what they had to say for themselves?

  Concerning the best and warm
  Adrian Wainer

  PS I forgot to mention that the partial shell package Norton also implements a toolbar in their browser, which reinforces even more the (false) impression that we have a fully functional package of the antivirus installed

  Hey Buddy

  I m bit confused about your ad and how you wrote this.

  I would like to mention a few facts:
  I m a Satellite P200 owner (it s even as P200, but with Intel the piece) and my laptop is equipped with the Norton Internet Security program.
  Of course, it s a subscription for 90 days, but it s a functional full version.

  Everything is pre-installed, but you need to configure and create a Norton account.
  I know because I read the instructions and information that are stored on my laptop.

  If you would in a full version of Norton Internet Security, you must create this account also.
  So you must connect to the internet also if you n t have an Antivirus Program preinstalled to set this up.

  Of course it must be updated also with the Internet because the antivirus definition file changes almost every time and the internet connection is required for this update.
  Why is it necessary? Because the image of Toshiba has designed several weeks ago and, therefore, the antivirus definition files is not updated.

  The same thing happens if you don t use the laptop for several weeks and don t perform the update of the operating system or antivirus.
  Don t wonder, therefore, you must connect to the internet to get everything updated.

  Please don t be angry with me, but I have my own opinion, you are one of the users who don t read the manual of the user or any other information that are equipped with Notepad and could be interesting for the use of the computer laptop but only start Notepad, install a few 3rd party apps and don t configure the operating system that is stored on the laptop.

  So I think that we could avoid this discussion if you read and check all detailed ;)

  Hey Buddy.

• Satellite P500-12F - Question about installing the drivers

  Have recently bought a new P500 Satellite 12F and I am very happy with it. This PC came only came on the market on 29 Oct. I decided this pilot site updates, bios, etc. and was surprised to find a few tens of individuals in the list.

  When I rang Toshiba support he told me don't bother to install as there may be a danger and if if its ok market don't bother!

  I would like a second opinion please.

  Satellite P500 is newer model comes with the latest drivers, tools and utilities for Toshiba laptop.
  It turns out that the Toshiba doesn't offer updates every month and, in my opinion, you don't need any update to date.

  I guess that your series of satellites well and without some serious software problems. So, touch of an operating system and be happy with your new toy.

• Satellite u300 (PSU30E) - how to install Windows XP?

  My Vista broke down so I removed and installed ubuntu, which works very well. However, I would like to install a windows on this as well. Because I lost my disk of vista I tried with XP. It worked fine with virtualbox virtualization but when I tried to install it properly it worked as it is enjoyable. I got an error message during the installation process «Setup has not found any hard drive» I tried "slipstreaming" a storage on the installation as disk driver advised on this article:

  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows/resolving-Setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-during-Windows-XP-installation/

  But laptop refuses to install from the newly formed disc and if I was still facing the same problem. Another option that is described in the article was to disable the native control of SATA BIOS. However, my laptop only has trusted Core BIOS Phoenix that do not allow to make these changes, and if I read between the lines of this topic:

  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=175764

  .. There is no way to access this kind of parameters with my current BIOS. So my question is then. Is it really impossible to install windows XP on this computer without floppy drive where you could put a SATA driver or is it possible to work around this problem? Vista is such a disappointment to me that I might have to consider buying windows 7 if it does not seem likely that XP starts to work, and in this case, I am afraid that the power of this machine is not sufficient for this operating system.

  All good advice about what to do?

  Hi Kylanmies,

  The magic word is Intel Storage Manager. This package contains the SATA drivers you need, and you are able to install Windows XP.

  Here are a few interesting articles from Toshiba on this subject:
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/HTD9401AN0000R01.htm
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB85017Z0000R01.htm

  In addition, visit the forum... You will find hundreds of threads according to me.

• Re: Satellite U300 - no audio device installed

  Rercently I lost audio and one audit result is back there is no audio devices installed. I reloaded the driver Realtek which resulted the return audio, but only for a short while - I now have no audio devices installed (accoding to the control panel). How can I do for r-installation of the audio device (assumed Realtek) and what I am doing wrong?

  > I reloaded the driver Realtek which resulted the return audio, but only for a short while - I now have no audio devices installed (accoding to the control panel). How can I do
  > on the r-installation of the audio device (supposed Realtek) and what I am doing wrong?

  Remove the audio driver, clean the registry and restart. Download a [pilot | http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp] if it does not it, there may be OS or hardware related issue. Then, you should to restore factory settings. If t still exists, there is a malfunction of the sound card

• Satellite U300-13U does not start and the recovery disc fails to too much work

  Hi all

  I have the above computer (or should I say my wife) & it is nothing that a good pain since the first day we got it.
  I have had it about 2 years & had to reformat the HD at least 6-8 times using the product recovery disc as laptop starts.
  The laptop runs Vista.

  In any case, problem I have now is that new laptop does not start, but for some reason any product recovery disc also does not work...
  What I can do...

  I have read on various forums that it might work if I reformat the HD first using some s/w on a bootable CD but how / what S/W can I use...?
  The laptop has a SATA HD 160 GB installed. How can I check that it all works.
  I don't know if the current problem is S/W or related material...

  Toshiba has a utility that I can use...?

  Thanks a lot for all the help...

  John

  Hello

  What happened exactly?
  Do you receive error messages by using the recovery disk?

  Check if the HARD drive is OK! You can check in the BIOS.
  If the HARD drive is listed in the BIOS then the HARD drive and HARD drive found BIOS is not dead.

  Usually, you might start Notepad with the help of a Live disc for example Bart PE
  It s a bootable windows CD/DVD live

  http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

  This can allows you to format the HARD disk, and then use the recovery disc!

• Satellite U300 - no sound after installing Win XP

  Hello

  I just reinstalled windows xp Prof today and upgraded to service pack 3.

  Sound has worked well in the first until a reboot, no more noise.
  A few reinstalls the drivers now, sometimes he says its all installed fine, other times it says no audio devices installed.

  In both cases there is no sound...
  Sometime on a restart (many reboots today) the sound suddenly came back to life, to die again at the next reboot...

  Im hoping someone can help me with this problem cos Im leaving on vacation tomorrow and really need my sound ;)

  Thanks in advance!

  Hello

  You should on Windows XP two audio patches if you have a card high definition audio:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/835221
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/888111

  These updates are in integrated SP3, you must install Service Pack 3 or the updates first, then the audio driver. So in your case, I would like to delete the sound driver, use CCleaner and then install the latest version from the Toshiba site.

  Good luck!

• Satellite U300-13U - roatetd 90 degree screen

  I accidentally pressed something last night and now the screen is rotated 90 degrees, so its horizontal. I can't find anything mentioning this function in the manual or the display screen options. I hope someone might be able to tell me how to get back around the right way? Thanks, Shona

  I knew that the solution ;) but you're faster ;) lol

  Thanks for sharing this with us, buddy!

• Satellite U300 and WXP driver support

  Browsing the Web site of Toshiba, it seems that this laptop has driver support Windows XP.
  It came with Vista, but I have some software I need to run that does not work under Vista.

  It's a Satellite U300-13U, model: PSU30E-04L02QKS.
  On the downloads page, I see drivers for XP, but it does not list all for the built-in webcam?
  Does this mean that the webcam does not work on Windows XP?

  In addition, a few people in these countries and other forums of online support suggests that the sound card drivers do not correctly or the other.
  I wish that this laptop to run some XP software and also for video conferencing.

  Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

  I put t have the U300 but a laptop A210 and this laptop is equipped with the webcam internal too.
  I installed XP SP2 on this unit and the webcam is recognized automatically
  However, you can try using also the driver for the webcam to another series of laptop

  Regarding the sound issue with XP.

  The point is that you need to install first two adjustments of MS then you could install the audio driver

• Issue of standby, power code: 0x7E - Satellite U300 - 14 p

  I just bought my Satellite U300 - 14 p and installed windows XP SP3 0.5508 (deletion of Vista that comes with it), with a custom Windows XP, boot disk made with nLite 1.4.1 (to include the SATA driver and set up my preferences, such as themes, etc.).

  I followed the instructions (installation order) that are on the Drivers Toshiba Download Page and everything goes well until installing "TOSHIBA Power Saver"(v7.03.07Q)".
  The installation seemed to go very well, but at the end of it, the "critical stop" sound error of windows rang and after go to the control panel and try to open TOSHIBA Power Saver, I get the message:

  "CANNOT be opened because you do not have access rights to use 'TOSHIBA Power Saver'."

  I am the only user of the computer and admin, so I don't get this message.

  I tried to uninstall it but I get the message: "a fatal error has occurred. The program will end. "Code: 0x7E.

  Any help?

  EDIT: I forgot to mention that, now, every time I start windows, the "critical stop" sound games and he started that after I installed energy-saving

  Post edited by: Cinetyk

  Great! Thanks for this detailed!