Satellite A300-1EG - hard drive carrier

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• Re: Satellite A300 - second hard drive

  Hello

  Perhaps some may say where I can buy hard disk for the motherboard conector?
  I have place for HDD and connections on the motherboard, but don't not have hard drive connector.
  Camputer are 1gn A300.

  Help, please!

  Hi Lotus

  Toshiba offers Satellite A300 with one or two hard drives with two different mothers. Plastic cover is the same for both models of laptops and that's why there are two disk HARD covered and placed two HARD drive. Laptops without SATA connectors are not ready for the upgrade.

  No one here in this forum has reported that these updates possible if laptop doesn t have original SATA connector to the second HARD drive, so I think that you cannot upgrade your laptop with the second HARD drive.

  By the way: it's not easy to find these parts.

• Satellite A300-1IW: HARD drive access light blinks every second

  Hello everyone, and sorry for the English, I'm french :)

  I bought a Satellite A300-1IW a few days and suddenly (don't remember exactly when) early light access HARD drive blinks every second and it continues even after several reboots!

  It does so only with Vista; I checked the disk with 'diskmon' activity and I saw that even if it was * no. * disk * written * or * reading * the led continues flashing, so I think that it is not bound to certain services of vista (superfetch, indexing...)

  A similar problem, I saw on a Microsoft support, but it was under windows 98 and with old motherborads!
  See: link: [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138598]

  So it seems that it is related to level Vista SCSI or DVD...

  I have now is not critical, but it's annoying to have this led flashes all the time

  You have an idea? Don't you think that it could be related to bios? I want to be sure before touching it, because it is always tricky.

  Thanks for your help

  In my opinion, nobody can offer no comment because you already gave the answer. There is nothing unusual and certainly no reason to panic.

  What do about it? What you want to do? Sorry, but this is a really stupid question. I can just offer you a stupid answer. ;) Take black tape and curl up the LED. ;)

• Image of disk HARD recovery removed the Satellite A300 - restore HARD drive

  Hello
  I have a Satellite A300, and I deleted by mistake HDD Recovery folder.

  I have recovery disks, but I want the HDD Recovery folder to restore my system without using the discs.

  Please, can you tell me how to recreate the HDD Recovery folder?

  Thank you very much

  Hello

  Unfortunately, now is not impossible to recover, image of hard drive, but with the only recovery disk. You can copy only to someone who has the same laptop with hard drive recovery record.

  Post edited by: Jeka-HE

• Re: Click on Satellite A300 - noisy HARD drive - strange of sound while booting

  Hi all

  I'm new and I would try to solve some problems with my new laptop * SATELLITE A300-1MZ * (with Vista) and * its hard disk * (a MHZ250BH of Fj-simens).

  I noticed that he is very mechanical in the normal conditions of use, in fact, when I turn on my computer, I hear a clear rattling and his mechanic from the HDD at different times also when there should be no disk activity.
  * Particularlly every 3-5 seconds * I hear a very strange noise as a small but very distinguible mechanic "CLAC" (is not refer to number of cycle ordefrag or indexing workload). Ditto on my ubuntu LINUX distro.
  However the phone never crashes

  _It first start Appareed and it's very noise_.
  I would ask if this is normal... It appeared regardless of the AC or battery power source.

  I just make a SMART software which is no problem, but I'm very worried about this problem.
  By phone, I just say all this to the center of Toshiba in my country, but for them all right. The laptop works ok.

  Not to mention that I found that * HDD * becomes * hot * also if there are no programs or processes that use it.
  He begins to 29a ° - 31Â ° and it gets hot with normal use (35 ° - 36Â ° after finished booting and after 30-40 min temperature is become more warm-42a ° - 46Â °, when its average temperature is ° - 48Â ° 46a - imagine if I turn for example a virus scan or a very hot video coding software-It to become: 50a ° - 55Â °.) (I try always not to overcome this final temperature). What is the maximum?

  * I hope you can give me an explanation to the problem.*
  * I ask if this is a problem common to other A300 owners.*

  For my personal reflection, that noise, it is very distinguible for a cooler quiet fan system (infact my dual core is 43a ° with normal use)
  Infact I would like to find a system to enable more cool fan (I have just seen in the bios and utilities from Toshiba but found nothing to that effect)

  Finally, I would like to know if the * battery time * 1h30mins (with the symmetric mode) is acceptable for a new laptop (with save mode is 1h40mins max).
  * I hope your support and I apologize for my language school *.

  Thanks y'alls.

  Hello

  I think that it s nothing wrong with your HARD drive.
  I have two cell phones and a PS3 at home.
  The HARD drive in a laptop made similar clicking sound. In addition, I noticed the same sound in the PS3. Since the upgrade to 500GB drive HARD makes the similar sound as the HARD drive in my notebook.
  I think that it s nothing wrong with the HARD drive and eventually it s nothing serious.

  > Finally, I would like to know if the battery of 1h30mins (with the symmetric mode) is acceptable for a new laptop (with save mode is 1h40mins max).
  Battery working time depends on the use of the laptop.
  The battery lasts a shorter time when to implement applications performance on the laptop. Also if the brightness of the display is set to the highest level, the battery needed to dump a lot more quickly.
  So I think 1.30 min is OK for the laptop. Of course, you can buy a stronger battery in order to use the laptop longer with battery power.

• Satellite A300-GN1 - HARD drive load something every time

  Hello

  When the pc loads up on top of the office, after about 1 minute HARD drive starts to load something 15-3-minutes (maybe check out or almost).

  Also when I finished no matter what disk HARD game starts to load something.
  Maybe someone knew how to fix it?
  I thought that it is auto defrag problem, but it's not...

  Vista Edition sp1 family.

  I guess there is nothing wrong with your laptop.
  I think that it is a feature of Vista.
  Vista always indexes the HARD drive to improve the desktop search.

  If you do not use this feature, you can disable it.
  Use the command Services.msc in the Start Run menu.
  Scroll of double-click 'Windows Search' it and mark it as disabled

  But personally, I would not recommend disabling because it would slow down the search.

  Welcome them

• Satellite A300-1EG - driver Webcam open fail after Exchange of motherboard

  All greetings.

  Recently took the laptop with the service center, it changed the motherboard. Before the service center the camera worked fine, but after taking early displays an error "Webcam driver open fail." Restart the computer or the camera. "Read the posts on this topic wise anywhere to update the BIOS, I renewed, but nothing helped.

  This could be due to the fact that in the service Centre to have forgotten something to connect to the motherboard? Because in Device Manager do not see a web camera. I have a Toshiba Satellite A300 1EG PSAG4E number.

  Thanks in advance for the answer. I would like to hasten to meet to go tomorrow to the center of service or not.

  Hi kuhar2007,

  Maybe the authorized service provider forgot to plug in the power cord, but before to contact them again once you try to reinstall the driver for the webcam. You can get the latest version here:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads > download drivers

  Normally the webcam should be in Device Manager after that. If this isn't the case, you must contact the ASP again. Explain the problem and they will try to help you. ;)

• Satellite A300-1EG - why do I need 2 recovery discs?

  Hello
  I have a Toshiba Satellite A300 - 1EG.

  I created 2 discs recovey such as required in the "Toshiba disc Creator Recovey". I created the premiera (disc 1) 2 weeks ago and the second (disk 2) today because I didn't have 2 DVD in hand.

  My first question is t - it is important if I left a period of time between the two creations that will affect the recovery if I ever need to use them?

  My second question is to make two just recovery disks recover the operating system for example: Windows Vista or they recover what was recorded on the Local C drive, at the time they were created?

  My last question is if that happens my dies of an operating system, I make just to turn on the laptop and put it in recovey disc 1, then 2, (if this isn't how someone can you please tell me how to?)

  Concerning

  Hello

  When you use Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator you can see there the option for the use of different blank media. On some laptops, that image can be burned to a blank DVD and on some models, you need two of them. It depends on the recovery image.

  For my Satellite A300, I used both DVD-R virgins. I created images of recovery for several laptops, and we don't have me break creation of recovery and continue later. When the first media is finished you need to place the second piece of blank media and burning process will continue automatically. As far as I know that there is NO option for creating discs 2 only. Please be careful about this.

  I recommend you to get two empty DVD - R blank and create DVDs from recovery at the same time.

  When you use recovery DVD is removed from the entire HARD disk, not only partition C. This means that all the data saved on the HARD disk will be deleted. If your laptop has two HARD drives the recovery procedure will affect only HDD1. Be careful about this, and before you begin the recovery procedure back up all your important data.

  Follow a definitive answer to the final question ;) when you want to install the OS by using recovery media:
  Power your laptop running and press F12 to display the boot options
  Put the 1 recovery media in the optical disc drive
  In boot options, choose the CD/DVD drive and press ENTER
  Follow the menu on the screen

  Of course, start with DVD1 and questioned insert second DVD.

• Re: Satellite A300 (PSAJ4E) - Webcam driver open fail

  I had to replace the hard drive on my PSAJ4E of the A300 and when I reloaded Vista 32 and install all drivers hardware Toshiba everything went well except for a Chicony webcam.

  The side menu is there but it won't work, giving a "driver webcam open fail." "Please restart camera or computer" error.

  I updated the Bios to 4.20
  I first used the original Toshiba, the 20080428125023 webcam driver download (V1.07.175).
  I tried with 'closed the cover 3/4 '.
  I have searched and read dozens of similar problems. I've tried a few, even edit the ini setting. Nothing helps.
  I even tried drivers XP (V1.7.144.0611), 32-bit and 64-bit versions and even a driver from the gateway. Nothing seems to work for this cam.

  What now?

  I also now get "the requested section is not found in the INF file" when I try to uninstall and reinstall the driver through Device Manager.
  I have the choice of
  6.198.1.0
  6.2.208.424
  6.2.238.1217
  all give the same error...

  Hey,.

  There is already a thread on Satellite A300 and webcam driver which could be useful for you:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=59662

  Check this box!
  ?

• Satellite A300-1EG - after upgrade to Vista Premium lacks some options

  Floor of the year of return, that I bought the computer laptop Toshiba SATELLITE A300-1EG (short model No. PSAG4E). Due to some problems, it was necessary to reinstall Windows.

  Bought the laptop introduced Windows Vista Home. Now I have created Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. A problem with some drivers, I can't adjust brightness and sharpness of the screen, and the screen guests do not work. Writing "or screen prompt updated video card is required, or the video card compatible with Direct3D" is necessary.

  Help please!

  Hello

  I think that you didn t install the driver on the right graphics card
  It seems that your laptop supports the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 graphics chip and I think that you should simply reinstall the graphics driver on the European driver Toshiba page

  What do you think?

• Problem Windows 7 MaxxAudio on Satellite A300-1EG

  Hello

  I install Win 7 x 64 on my Satellite A300-1EG (a Vista x 32) and when I install Realtek hd audio driver I found not the boost volume options (low bosst and terrible thrust).

  If not turn on this options sounds not good quality but now Realtek Control Panel don't have this option.
  What can I do?

  Hello

  It s don't know for me if Realtek changes something in the Win 7 version or if there is a big difference between the audio Manager Realtek HD for Vista and Win 7, but I think you should try to download and install page of the Realtek driver Realtek HD audio Manager?

• Can I install Windows XP on Satellite A300-1EG

  What the installation of Windows XP Home on Satellite A300-1EG?

  What sort of change shoul I install before?

  What the difference betweem 32-bit and 64-bit? because it is a 32-bit Vista?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Of course, you can install XP on this laptop
  I put t see no reason why it shouldn't t function.

  Satellite A300-1EG belongs to the PSAG4E.
  Choose this series in the European driver Toshiba page and you will find the correct drivers.

  Please note that you must install the SATA AHCI driver first.
  I think this doc Toshiba should be useful:

  [How to integrate a SATA AHCI driver into a Windows XP installation CD | http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB85017Z0000R01.htm]

  Also it you asked is what is the difference between the 32-bit OS and 64 bit OS.
  Well, there is a big difference but I n t want to show all
  An important fact is that drivers don't function on 64 bit OS 32 bit.

  For more information between the 32-bit and 64-bit OS recommends asking Google ;)

• No sound in Windows XP on Satellite A300-1EG

  Well, I'm in trouble, and that bothers me.

  I can't install my soundcard on Satellite A300-1EG. (I have the same notebook)
  I kill Vista and installed XPSP2, is gone to Toshiba official downloads, got sound and chipset drivers, but sound card still does not work.

  I want to tell ALL.
  Same system doesn't see this device as an existing one. Looks like he disappeared.
  But it does not work under Vista.
  What should I do?
  I'm not going to install vista, I'd rather have a laptop another (preparation for the worse)

  Hello

  You need to first install audio patch for windows xp
  AUDIO patch 1: KB835221
  AUDIO patch 2: KB888111

  These are patches from Microsoft and are essential for the sound card.

  After that the patches have been installed, reinstall the audio driver

  See you soon

• Question about upgrading to Vista 64 - bit - Satellite A300-1EG

  Hello

  I wanted to ask you, how can I run Vista 64-bit without losing all the software that I got carried away with my laptop Toshiba Satellite A300-1EG?
  I would be remiss and so on the Toshiba disk creator?
  Is there a way to extract somehow the recovery DVD?

  Thank you

  Please do not mix two different things. 64-bit and 32-bit versions are not the same and if your mobile phone is supported for the version of Vista 64-bit, you can find all the drivers, tools and utilities on Toshiba download page under http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com

  Have you already checked this?

  BTW: recovery image cannot be used for spare parts. It can only be used in the package.

• What is the difference between the Satellite A300-1EC & Satellite A300-1EG

  Why does the Satellite A300-1EC more expensive stand as Satellite A300-1EG, but configuration loses him?

  What is their substantial distinction in?
  What model of laptop may indicate, in this price range?

  Hello

  Satellite A300-1EC belongs to the Group PSAG0E and Satellite A300-1EC to PSAG4E. When this model numbers are different, it means that they do not have the same hardware configuration.

  The first has Intel graphics controller 965GM (Crestline). The second is M82XT ATI (256 MB). The capacity of the HARD disk is not the same. The first a 160 GB HDD and secondly a 250 GB.

  So that's the difference between these notebooks of the A300.

  In my view, the other is better. You have to make your decision and choose the right one.