Satellite 2450-201 and the Installation of XP SP2

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• Satellite 2450-201: replace the optical drive.

  Hi, the drive combo DVD in my satellite 2450-201 has recently stopped reading dvd

  Hello

  If I remember correctly your unit select a bay and you can remove the easy DVD player. In the lower corner, you will find SlimSelectBay latch. Move to position undocking and carefully remove the disc.

  The disc is set to SlimSelectBay. I have gift? t remember exactly how many screws are there but the disassembly procedure is not complicated. Check it!

• Satellite A300 - HARD and the Installation of the OS disk replacement

  Hello world

  I watched a few videos online regarding how can I do to replace the two HARD drive in my laptop Toshiba Satellite A300 PSAG4E-04901CEN. However, I have a few inquires before that I undertake this task:

  (1) are there any recommendation to which HARD drive should I buy for this laptop. I want something affordable with speed and relatively good ability.
  (2) how I would go about installing Windows 7 OS on the new HARD drive. I have to update my BIOS and drivers when I finished installing?
  (3) are there other guides (written or video) that you would recommend that I go through before making the replacement?

  I appreciate any help on this matter.

  A few days ago a friend of mine asked me to help. HARD on its A300 disc was defective. We bought the new 250GB SATA HDD, succeeded him, and after that, I installed Win7 32 bit.
  Now the machine works perfectly.

  Do not do anything as the BIOS update. Just put the new HARD drive and launch the installation of Win7. All the necessary drivers, tools and utilities, you can find and download from the Toshiba download page - http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp

  Here's how I installed all the stuff on A300 friends:
  -Win7
  -chipset driver
  -Storage Manager
  -display driver
  -driver sound
  -modem driver
  -utility supervisor
  -infrared
  -patches
  -configfree
  -VAP
  Hardware - toshiba
  Control - HDMI
  -WLAN driver

  Everything works well but lacks some drivers

  Added Vista tips:
  Toshiba - help - working properly
  -Card reader - installed correctly
  -Webcam driver for A500 - tested with Skype - works correctly.
  Driver - Synaptics

  Win7 works well and I am very satisfied.

  If you need help more made me know.

• Satellite 2450-201: is it possible to upgrade the P4 to Athlon processor?

  I have a satellite 2450-201 and it came with petium 4 I want ypgrade to the athlon 64 x 2 will be this possible upgrade for my laptop?

  No, it is not possible.
  The Pentium uses different fixing like the athlon.
  In any case the portable technology is different because the desktop PC simply and miniaturization make these updates impossible

• Satellite 2450-201: slow startup and shutdown

  I HAVE A SATELLITE 2450-201 AND I RUN ON WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION, I DID A REGISTRY CLEANER EVERYBODYS USERNAME USING REGISTRY FIX 5.5
  I HAVE DEFRAGED MY PC AND ALSO OPTIMIZED MY MSCONFIG STARTUP ITEMS AND EVEN THE BIOS UPDATE.
  THE RESULT IS EXTREMELY FASTER WHEN I CONNECT AND ACTUALLY UNDER WINDOWS BUT THE SAME OLD VERY SLOW STOP AND START TO WHAT I DO.

  THE WINDOWS BAR GOING ALONG AT LEAST 15 - 20 TIMES TO HELP START!

  Hello

  Maybe you've connected to some external devices to slow down the start-up procedure. You can also try to disable all the hardware components you n t need (modem. IrDA). Also check out which device is defined in a first start time (I hope that the HARD drive).

  For slow closing is responsible only running processes that should be forced disconnected. It all depends on your own configuration and you are using external devices.

• Satellite 2450-201: USB 1.1 instead of 2.0 controller

  I formatted the hard drive on my Satellite 2450-201 and loaded Windows XP SP2. I loaded all the drivers from the disk utilities and everything works well except the USB ports work only in 1.1 instead of 2. There is a yellow exclamation point in device on USB controller Manager. I tried a Toshiba download driver but there is nothing available.
  Can someone suggest a soloution to this problem.

  John

  Hi John

  As far as I know that there is no driver for USB controller. When you install the chipset driver all USB ports should be recognized correctly. Exclamation mark in Device Manager is an indication that the device is not configured correctly. Try to remove the controller and reboot the device. After this check again in Device Manager.

  Some external device is connected to the unit by USB ports?

• CPU upgrade in Satellite 2450-201

  I have a Satellite 2450-201 and it came with a pentium 4 2.4 GHZ.
  What CPU will be compatible? Pentium 4 3.6 GHZ maybe because there is P4.
  Will this work?

  Hello

  To my knowledge the Satellite 2450 series was delivered with an Intel Desktop Pentium 4 processor.
  The desktop Intel Pentium 4 CPU with Intel SpeedStep® technology and processors to run at one of the following speeds:

  2.26GHz / bus speed: 533 MHz
  2.4 GHz / 533 MHz
  2.53 GHz / 533 MHz
  2.66 GHz / 533 MHz
  2.8 GHz / 533 MHz

  Additional info:
  The processor incorporates a 12 KB of L1 cache and 512KB L2 cache memory memory.

  But as far as I knwn Toshiba does not support updates. You have no guarantee that it will work properly

• Satellite 2450-201: impossible to format SD card 4 GB card

  Hello

  IA´m an owner of Satellite 2450-201 and I have a big problem.
  I just bought a 4 GB SD memory card and Nice, it adapts to the side slot on my laptop.

  This is the first time using the memory card, so a needs-to-format window appears when I try to access.

  The window has the right information: 3.78 GB, Fat32,...

  I click 'OK' and informs the Windows (XP SP2): impossible to complete format (here is Portuguese, then it is translated into English)

  If the correct size is informed, 3.78 GB, why windows can't format it?

  My laptop is virus and spyware free (only 23 spots in the running and supervision), I have SP2, Bios (most recent) 1.50, SD my controller drivers is up to date (the last and the only one that was released in 2003).

  Also tried third party "Panasonic SDFormatter 2.0". He reports the (physical) unit or the mem SD stick is not compatible with the program. And the same effect occurs: the Sd device lost the nice icon and I need to remove/insert the SD card to see again the same story.

  Help me please, friends.

  Hello

  It of very strange that you re possible to see the plugin SD card. Some people suggested that this SD card supports only 256MB, 512 MB cards and more with no MMC support.

  I put t know if you have a format utility Toshiba SD card installed on the laptop, but on many notebooks of utility such Tosh is preinstalled and could be used for formatting of the card.

  According to some poster in this forum the Portege M400 utility format could handle 2 GB, but not sure about 4 GB SD cards.
  If possible, you can try to install this utility on your laptop, but you know you don't have much chance that it works.

  I think that in this case only an external SD card reader will help you.

• Question about DVD watching on Satellite 2450-201

  Hi, I have a satellite 2450-201.
  and I'm sure that when I had it first I could watch DVDs, s without having to start, only now, when I try this the computer starts completely before it will play, now perhap it did this before but I didn't take so long to start, because there was not much on it to slow it down, what I want to know is : is it possible or just my imagination, if not how to reset it please.
  Thank you in antisipation
  Pete

  Hi Pete,.

  You don't say what operating system you have. To watch DVDs without having to start you would need to have Windows installed MCE. He would use a small area of your hard drive to store the necessary software to allow you to play DVDs without having to start your main operating system.

  If you have XP (Home or Pro), then it is more likely that your startup process now takes longer than before so that you can start your DVD software. In this case check for unnecessary tasks or processes by using the Task Manager and I would also recommend spyware scanning, removing everything you find and run Defragmenter and disk cleanup.

  HTH

• Re: Satellite 2450-201: WLan reconnects if driver GPU has been installed

  Problem just second hand laptop laptop that Toshiba Satellite 2450-201 to the format.
  Everything works fine. Then when I load the drivers for graphics (nVidia gforce 4 420 Go) my Intel pro wireless 2200bg wireless grave card and does not recover.

  Turn off the graphics card works OK wireless again.

  Someone at - it ideas please

  I would like to know if you have used a page of the Toshiba driver graphics driver and if the WLan Intel card is up-to-date?
  WLna card driver can be downloaded here:
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/WLAN/

• Satellite 2450-201: cannot use TV option after the new installation of the OS

  Hello

  I have a laptop toshiba satellite 2450-201.
  I've always had the TV OUT works well with my TV, use the right cable SVIDEO.
  I was able to watch divx movies in my TV using my computer.

  I had to format the laptop and installed windows XP again.
  After that, I can't use more TV-OUT option, so that the image of the laptop could be seen on television, I've always had.
  After that I updated display drivers, but the problem remains.

  Can someone help me?
  Thank you

  Hello

  How do you reinstall the operating system? Have you used the recovery CD?
  Usually after the reinstallation of the operating system from the recovery CD, everything should work properly.
  It is important that you can switch to the TV. In this case, you can use FN + F5.
  If it's not working so I guess that for display devices hotkey utility works or was not installed. Well, the alternative is to pass on the TV via the graphic properties. The TV option, you should find somewhere in the advanced options.

  However, check it and check if you have installed all the drivers.

• Re: Satellite 2450-201: insert system disk and press a key

  Hello

  I have a satellite 2450-201 my hard drive failed and I bought a new one.
  I went to do the installation of the OS that worked very well and cancelled before that I had to commit that I had to get out.

  Tried again and it wouldn't boot from the CD it kepps showing the insert system disk and press a key.
  I have attached my external, a drive with a boot in drive but no difference what I am doing wrong?

  Mark has soon

  Looks like you can't boot from the CD.
  The message insert system disk and press any key any appears because the laptop can not find any operating system and bootable CD.

  Try to insert an original Windows CD and try to press F12 immediately after that laptop was on the F12 key should activate the start on-screen menu.

  Check it!

• Satellite 2450-201: how to increase the video memory from 32 to 64 MB?

  Can anyone help? I looked in the Bios and the advanced settings screen, and found nothing to increase the size of the video memory.
  Any other way to find on my Satellite 2450-201

  Hello

  As far as I know that the unit has been delivered with the NVidia GeForce4 420Go 32 MB graphics card. This isn't a memory sheared graphics card.
  The card supports the own memory and not a function of memory sheared.
  In this case, you cannot change the value of memory.

• IntelPro2200BG (miniPCI WiFi module) and Satellite 2450-201 - question

  I want to buy a miniPCI WiFi module to my Satellite 2450-201.
  My laptop has a type III miniPCI port and a WiFi antenna version.
  Upgrading WiFi cheapest I found is IntelPro2200BG (IEEE 802. 11 b / g).
  This card will work with my laptop?

  See you soon,.
  Tomek

  Hi Tomek!

  The Intel card, I have no information, but why don't you look at the Toshiba products?

  Take a look at http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com
  You will find the "product catalog" and click on "Options and accessories.

  Search for 'Communications' and Mini PCI cards.

  You will find in many card Wifi from Toshiba.

  Take a look!

  Good bye

• How to upgrade my 256 MB RAM on the Satellite 2450-201?

  How to upgrade my 256 MB RAM on my Toshiba Satellite 2450 201? Where is the RAM located on it?

  AFAIK, you can upgrade to max 1024 MB (2x512MB) memory
  You use PC2100 DDR - RAM memory modules.
  The memory must be located under the keyboard. Remove the keyboard, to first remove the thin cover above the keyboard and remove the 2 screws that are placed under the thin cover.

  But if you don't have any experience you shouldn't t do. In this case, contact the service in your country