Satellite A500/026: problems in streaming/watch online videos

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• Re: Satellite A500/026 shows Blue Screen of Death

  Hi all

  Just a quick winge / to complain/ask for help!

  I recently acquired a Satellite A500/026 for Christmas (2009)

  I installed Windows 7 via Toshiba built in software thingy, 64-bit, and it was running ok, then all of a sudden I started having screens blue rightbefore death or after the logon screen appears, usually blah blah less_than_zero or something.

  in any case being the computer genuis Franklin that I am :) I decided to reformat, ok cool, so I did that, now it is 32-bit, windows 7, with no new program installed, and it continues to give me the same problems. Apartment to send it into the Toshiba people, what can I do >?

  Hello

  Have you tried updating the graphics card driver? I want to talk about the new driver nvidia version gt 230M, series of nvidia.com
  You can try it out and let know us if it hepls you. But do not consider updating your Bios because it does not help in your case, but can bring the crash of the Bios with white screen

• Satellite A500-026 - can't do anything that involes network

  I bought a Satellite A500-026 and just out of box.

  Can't do anything that involves networking, they all freeze or load in white, internet Explorer does not open to the top at all. I can't activate my firewall or antivirus on.
  Not to mention its quite slow for a new machine with a processor P8800 (my laptop 5yo is faster).

  Stuck

  Hi mate!

  Can you notice any other problems with the laptop or simply with the network connection? Furthermore, you hear a LAN or WLAN connection?

  What OS are you using and what 3rd party programs have installed you?

  In your case, I'll try to update the drivers and maybe a laptop recovery facility. You should try it with factory settings (preinstalled OS from Toshiba).

• Re: Satellite A500/026 get frozen and cannot close

  Satellite A500/026, I bought a month before, and actually use days perhaps only 14 days.

  That books get frozen after 5 minutes and can't stop, no matter what you do.
  I made the recovery of factory default. the first can not finished and frozen in the State. over twice the recovery, but the jelly still happens after 5 to 10 minutes. I don't know why these things happened on a brand new computer. What them to prove the quality for the Toshiba?

  Site Web de Toshiba have also any number of phone customer feedback or complaint hotline.
  I swear that not more product Toshiba for me, also include my family and all my friends.

  Hello

  I have no idea of what has happened with your laptop, but according to your assignment, the laptop freezes even using HARD drive recovery.
  In your case it s recommended to contact the ASP (certified partner) in your country. The laptop seems to be covered by the warranty that is why everything should be done for free.

  The ASP database in the world can be found here:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com-> supported downloads &-> find an authorized service provider

  Welcome & good luck

• Satellite A500/026 No connection using LAN

  My Toshiba Satellite A500/026 is about a month and today I finally had the time to try to connect to the Internet. However, to plug the ethernet cable from my modem to the laptop, there is no Internet connection.

  I tried to connect the same cable on my Satellite Pro A300 and all right. If I'm missing something on my A500?

  Hello

  Are you sure that the internet connection is not blocked by a firewall or other security that is installed on your system software?
  Check it!

  In addition, you must check if the network card is working properly.
  The LAN driver must be installed and you should not see any yellow exclamation in device-> network cards Manager.

• Problems with the sound function and scrolling on the touchpad on my Satellite A500/026

  Hello

  I just brought a new laptop A500/026 and when I play music from my ipod I get a little static pop sound at regular intervals during the song... this happens on all my music. I accidentally scroll horizontally through my touhpad and my screen minimizes or maximizes. I try to find how I did it, but can never seem to return to its normal state. There is obviously some sort of function here, can someone help me with it? I installed the x 64 bit version of windows 7.

  Thank you

  Eddie

  Hello

  The touchpad settings are placed in Control Panel-> mouse
  You can find the additional tab which would be you can access touchpad properties.

  As I know the touchpad properties contains many different options that allows you to configure the scrolling function, to activate and assign different actions to the touchpad corners, etc.

  Check it!

• Satellite A500 - power problems while game

  I was wondering if Satellite A500 users have had the same problem as me. I got my laptop to 10 months and for the last 2 months I get really bad heating problems with my laptop. I have tried everything to clean the laptop with a can to purchase under product cooling fan air to try to stop the tap from the bottom during the game but no luck.

  I want to come to a point were I think that its time to back the laptop to toshiba and ask for a replacement or a new laptop as after spending nearly £700 for laptop Gamers its just not up to scratch.

  Any help would be most appreciated that I get at the end of my patience with her. Now stop playing Aliens Vs Predators live x 11 and the Lord of the Rings Online and Supreme Commander 2, name a few.

  Also, I was watching a DVD using the HDMI port and it did for me then also.

  Help, please.

  Hi HellspwanUK,

  So if your laptop stops all at stake, it would be interesting to know what OS you have installed what is driving display and you are using. This behavior is typical if you use nVidia display drivers rather Toshiba display drivers. The nVidia drivers don't have protection against overheating and different thermal management. This means that your graphics card would go on the highest level, so it might be overheating and closed.
  I would recommend most recent installation display driver official of Toshiba page for your model.

  And have you cleaned your laptop as described here:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/Ann.jspa?annID=40

  In addition, I would also check the BIOS. Have you installed the latest version of the BIOS?

• Satellite A500-026 - the speakers crackle

  Hi all, I was wondering if anyone else has had problems with creaking speakers with their A500-026?

  There seems to be some problems on the internet with other versions of the A500. This computer was shipped with Windows 7 and has always had problems with the Crackle of the speakers, and in particular with iTunes and Media player. Some people have apparently corrected this with driver updates, but NVidea State should not update to say or the present update of Toshiba.
  Toshiba does know that there is a problem?

  Should I just return the computer because it is pretty useless if the speakers do not really work! I only got it since November.

  Any advice welcome.

  Hello

  There are already discussions on this issue:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=186137
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=183632

  Try the validated solutions and then you can give us feedback: how it works.

  If it doesn t work, please contact an authorized service provider. They can fix the computer laptop for you and that's all you can do.
  I put t know if Toshiba know there is a problem.

• Satellite A500 / big problem with keyboard

  Hello everyone, first sorry for my English, I'm French!

  Anyway, since 2 days now my Satellite A500 has a big keyboard problem and I don't know how to fix it. I used it as usually, just cleaned each week arriving at work with a simple cloth and after starting my computer, when I started typing, I realized that the keyboard has disappeared as a "madman".

  Some keys are reversed, others like the space bar just doesn't work anymore, capslock button now unlock with the key has and another example, when I press D writes 'CD' and other stuff like that. It is simply impossible to type correctly. I'm running on Windows 7, I have the first test to look for any kinf of viruses, vain, so I formatted my hard drive, reinstalled Windows 7, then after I did the update to the Bios and now everything is clear and clean, but the keyboard problem is still there.

  The fact is that I have this laptop since August 2009 and my warranty no longer applies, so before I should send my computer to any computer repair store I want to know if it's really a problem of keyboard/equipment which can be fixed, "softwarely" or if there is always some kind of alternative for me.

  Thanks to all for your future responses.

  Hello

  Crazy keyboard?
  Hmm. Don t think that it s software or related bios looks more keyboard problem.
  You can try to plug an external USB keyboard to check if the problem would be also available
  If it s not available using the external USB keyboard, then it s internal problem of keyboard and the part needs to be replaced.

  Keyboard replacement is not difficult. The keyboard is secured by two or three screws that are hidden under the cover of thin plastic above the F1 - F12 buttons.
  Remove the plastic cover, remove the screws, lift the keyboard, disconnect the cable (notice, two tiny locks on the connector needs to be moved).
  Then, you would be able to remove the cable of the flat keyboard which is connected to the mobo.

  But if you have no experience, then you this replacement must be done by laptop computer technician.

  Welcome them

• Satellite A500 USB problem - unknown device.

  Hello

  Have a Satellite A500 I recently restored to factory from the recovery partition and reinstalled my Win7 upgrade.

  I have a couple of unknown devices in Device Manager and have no way of knowing what they are.
  They would normally be a problem for me except that I'm also the sounds of disconnecting USB every now and then and caveats relating to the devices being plugged into a port USB2 not high speed.

  I have of course plugged anything in time so I expect there is a device which is malfunctioning and not detected correctly.

  The devices I first suspected (webcam, TV Tuner, touchpad) all normally appear in Device Manager so I'm at a loss as to what is the cause.

  Any ideas?
  Beards

  Hello

  I understand this correctly?

  You restored the A500 to the factory settings using the Toshiba recovery procedure and the unknown devices still shows up in the Device Manager?

  That s strange because the recovery disk to put the laptop in the same State as on the first day of purchase. So generally unknown devices should not appear and all drivers must be installed correctly.

  However, I found an interesting and in my eyes useful HowTo document that should help you to know which drivers are missing in your case.

  + How to identify an unknown device (e.g. LAN wireless module)? +
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/Ann.jspa?annID=78

• Missing Audio device (Microphone) on the Satellite A500-026 (PSAR2A 026002)

  Hello list!

  I have a laptop A500-026 Toshiba for presentations (via overhead projector) and internet communications (Skype, etc.).

  At a recent presentation, I was using the internal speakers of the place (plug in the line-out jack on my A500), but to receive a feedback from my microphone, I had used successfully in my Skype (using the built-in webcam and microphone on the A500). I tried all the solutions to cut the microphone (by selecting RIGHT click the speaker icon - recording devices do not seem to cut the Microphone) and finally the pressure and the stress of the situation too rolled my given what I was actually doing.

  Now, I don't have ANY "recording devices" AKA Microphones on the system, and I spent the last 4 days trying to reinstall the built-in microphone. I reinstalled the RealTek drivers, but there is still none identified microphone.

  All help to restore the built-in microphone of A500 would be accepted with gratitude!

  Megan in Sydney

  Hello

  You should check if the microphone has not been disabled.

  Go to control panel of-> sound-> recording tab
  You need to right click and must enable both options called hidden devices and see the disabled devices.
  Now you should see 2 microphone inputs; a second and internal microphone should belong to the external microphone jack.

  If you want to use the internal microphone and then mark it as a default device.

  See you soon

• Satellite A500 microphone problem

  I currently own a Toshiba Satellite A500 computer series running Windows 7 laptop, however the built-in microphone that comes with the computer laptop isn't working properly.
  When I go to use Skype for example it says that the microphone is on, but the volume is low. However, what makes no sense to me is that I already went to the sound options on the Control Panel then the properties of the microphone and turned the volume up to full.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  At soon Milstonman

  > When I go to use Skype for example it says that the microphone is on, but the volume is low
  As mentioned by Akuma. Skype software controls the settings of the microphone to and in my case the volume is controlled automatically by Skype to ensure the best quality.
  I think you should check the audio options of Skype.

• Configuration of the multimedia keys on Satellite A500/026 commands

  Hello

  I want to just configure the multimedia keys for:

  Open Winamp
  Previous track (Winamp)
  Next track (Winamp)
  Mute
  Turn down the volume
  Increase the volume

  Thank you

  A500/026 running under Windows 7 64-bit

  Launch Winamp and go to Options > Preferences > global Hotkeys
  On the right side put check mark to activate multimedia default has the support of...

  It should work.

  I tested it on several Toshiba laptops and it works perfectly.

• A new Satellite A500/026, but I want Windows XP

  J just bought a new A500 and I think its just great the only problem is that I don't like windows 7.
  I want to go back to windows xp.

  Can I do this and retains all the features of toshiba?

  Hello

  If you want to use Win XP, then you need to install Win XP using the MS Windows XP clean CD.
  But the fact is that Win XP are not available for A500 because it is a new machine and new laptops come preinstalled with the latest Windows 7.

  You will need to search drivers Win XP at your own hand and you will not be able to use all the tools preinstalled by Toshiba, these tools are available only on the image of Toshiba and are not ready for download.

  Welcome them

• Satellite A500-026 overheats and stops during the game

  Hey guys, any help would be appreciated.

  My 026 has recently started to overheat and stopping at random during video games. I can't even run TF2 to learn more, then one hour unless he suddenly died on me. It is never used for this months of use.

  I can assume there is a problem with my video card. I tried to download drivers to Toshibas site and the latest versions of Nvidia without change. I've already booked a Mobilecare service, I wanted to just evaluate what might be the possible problems.

  Hello

  Maybe this problem of high temperature of s.
  High temperature causes a closing down in order to protect the equipment against damage.
  But the question is why the temperature increases to critical level?
  One of the reasons could be a page nvidia graphics card driver. Such driver does contain protection against overheating. Therefore, use the driver of Toshiba page.
  I see that you did
  Well, the laptop seems to be a new a .so usually dust should not be a problem and fans should work properly

  A tip; Please make sure that you have enough free space around the laptop to ensure good air circulation.

  However, I recommend asking an ASP in your country for verification may be what he s hardware related issue.