Satellite A500-1EJ turns on itself - touchpad light problem

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• Satellite A500-1EJ - charger makes buzzing noise

  Hello world

  I have a Satellite A500-1EJ. A few months ago the original laptop computer charger died on me, so I bought a Spanish new from Amazon.
  Also, I bought a new battery and they worked perfectly until last week. Of fact changer this buzzing when it is connected (same as previous). As the charger and the battery are original I have tried to find a way to get a replacement but can't find anything on cell phone chargers.

  Could you please help me with this? Amazon said I need to contact the manufacturer of the product.

  Hello

  Purchased Toshiba AC adapter original with PA3716E-1AC3 part number?

• Satellite A500-148 turns on but does not start

  Hi all, I have a Satellite A500-148 from a friend who asked me to take a peek, it turns on, but does boot when I press the following power button occurs:
  -The power button and the charger are on and the hdd led only flashes once
  -The fan comes on for about 3 seconds
  -No image on the screen, I indicated a light against it, but there is really no image

  Tried to reset by pressing the button for 30 seconds without the changer is plugged.

  I disassembled it and noticed that this laptop has an external video card, so my question is, who's broken the video card or the motherboard.

  Thank you

  To be honest I don't understand this with an external video card. Can you describe how you mean exactly?
  In any case, on this virtual path, it is not easy to offer the exact diagnosis. You can try the little test and remove this external adapter, RAM and HARD disk, and try to start again.

  Ask your friend if he had something that may be responsible for this.

  One last thing: laptop stays in r might have turned off after a certain time?

• Re: Satellite A500 will turn on automatically at 23:00

  Hi all

  I have a Satellite A500 who decides he wants to get into itself every night about 23:00.
  I disabled all the tasks in the Task Scheduler and it still happens.
  I have no other idea I can do to prevent this.

  Can anyone help. It starts from the complete closure. It is not in sleep or Hibernate either mode.

  Thank you

  Hello

  There is a problem similar but if starts up to 8.20

  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ0302TJ0000R01.htm

  In addition, you should try to disable WOL

• Satellite series is turning off itself

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba laptop which is the series of satellites. It s quite old, as I've had around 2001-2002. It's a portable Windows XP Home.

  I had just done a bit of problems with it, viruses, etc.. However, after the recent removal of virus, the laptop worked well up until now.
  Now the problem is that the laptop lights well, everything goes normally, and when my little brother play a game like Counter Strike, after, say 10-15 minutes, the laptop turns off completely! When I start it again, it starts normally, no errors reported. I need to know what the problem is!

  Any help, tips, advice and recommendations are welcome and much appreciated!
  Thanks a bunch!
  Umair Sharif

  Hello Umair

  From your description of the problem is overheating. The laptop is old enough, and I imagine that a lot of dust. Dust blocks the cooling fans and the material cannot be cooled properly. The result is overheating and suddenly switching OFF. It's a kind of mechanism to protect and every time when material reaches the temperature level critical the laptop switches OFF.

  All you have to do is to remove the dust. After having this laptop works perfectly again.

• Satellite A500-12W - turns off

  I have a problem at the moment. I'm playing a game on my A500-12W.

  The game is not not that demanding for this type of laptop, we are talking about the witcher in 2007. After 10 minutes my phone turns off. Looks like to me its overheating but can't really find a reason why. The fan speed is actually blocked about 80-90% all the time if there is almost no programs running. I have a dual core 2, 53GHz, 4 GB of RAM and 1 GB radeon mobility 4600hd in there so I did not thing that the game is too demanding.

  Can anyone help?

  Hello

  The typical recommendation in your case:

  1. clean your computer using the jet of compressed air to blow the dust from the cooling module that can be clogged and stops the system due to overheating.
  2 Select the maximum Performance in the method of cooling in the high power plan performance.

  And the Bill, check out what the Gpu driver you ' ve installed. It should be a pre-tested Toshiba driver a few changes with protection against overheating.

  Post edited by: jeka-Israel

• Satellite A500 - battery light flashes when connected to the power supply

  Win 7 Satellite A500 PSAM3A-03P00E.

  Battery light flashes when connected to the power supply (intermittent fault), when I disconnect the sector and reconnect the flashing stops and battery (high capacity) continues to receive.

  Also, when battery light blinks the keyboard backlight stays on when it should white and if the backlight is turned off and the battery light starts to blink the keyboard backlight turns on, all other functions seem to work well.

  Charges of battery and the wedges load properly (when the battery flashes).

  Hello

  Have you noticed this problem since the first day of purchase?
  Theoretically, it could be possible that your battery begins to malfunction
  On the other hand, an electrical problem could also be possible

  However, try this:
  Remove the battery and the AC adapter. Then press and hold button power 30 sec long.
  Then insert the battery and plug AC adapter still does that help?

  By the way: this is the BIOS updated? If this isn't the case, perform an update.

• Satellite A500-1GG - controller Nvidia keeps crashing

  I recently bought a Satellite A500-1GG, and I've had this problem more than once now. Firstly, the screen freezes, then goes black, and then it turns back to normal, saying the controller has crashed and restarted. Can someone tell me how to solve this problem?

  Who knows what that you made or installed the last days.
  You have this problem on the first day?
  Do you use factory settings (laptop preinstalled by Toshiba)?

  Have you installed some games?
  This happens sporadically or in a certain situation to you?
  Have you tried to reinstall the display driver?

  Have you tried even anything to make it work properly again?
  Hey can man you write more than two sentences?

• Re: Satellite A500-1 - slow after blue screen

  Hi all

  I've owned a Satellite A500-1 in a year with no problems at all until a few days ago. When it tuning on it gave me a blue screen of death, and after 10 seconds, it turned blue, so I couldn't read error.

  I noticed reduced performance since it happened. Especially when you play games or movies HD, the picture and sound will freeze every few seconds. This happens in Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I did a new install of both, but the problem persists.

  I scanned the hard drive and memory errors, but it wasn't everything. Cant someone give me some advice, please?

  Thank you

  Hello

  > This happens in Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I did a new install of both, but the problem persists.
  This would mean that the problem is hardware-related and operating system installation seems to be ok, but it could be anything and it s is not easy to say what part is affected.

  Some parts, you can check yourself like RAM and HARD drive.

  http://www.HitachiGST.com/HDD/support/download.htm#DFT
  With the Drive Fitness Test, you can test your HARD drive. Download the CD image, burn it to a CD and boot from it. Then you can test the HARD drive.
  On the same site is a user's guide if you want to know more.

  http://Memtest86.com/
  Memtest86 is a diagnostic tool to check the RAM. Here, you can also download a CD image.
  It s easy to use. Run the test of 3-4 hours and then you will see if the RAM has some errors.

  If both tests cannot find an error, it must be another problem as the motherboard or the CPU. For such a diagnosis, you must contact an authorized service provider. They can help you get rid of this problem. You can find a complete list of the guys here:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads > find an ASP.

  :)

• Re: Audio crackles on Satellite A500 (PSAR3A - 01 K 002)

  Bought a new Satellite A500 last year and have had many problems, here's a quick run down:

  1 will play not with Win7 64-bit, compatible blue screens pointing to the graphics card driver. Tried every update in the Sun, nothing helps, also tried a full system restore with no luck... finally gave up and moved for Win 7 32 bit and stability seems reasonable.

  2. audio crackles with 64 and 32 bit versions of win 7, once again have tried every update under the Sun, including BIOS and full system restore with no luck. Audio is really shocking and it is worth noting that it is not just the speakers, when I use a headset (and joking around, I had plugged a top of the range $300 pair) it still crackles like nothing else.

  3. fell hardware WIFI switch...! ??? Also note that this laptop was not the biggest of any ill treatment and hase has spent most of it is time sitting on a desk at home and not be mobile (which incidentally is therefore what laptops are designed for should be able to handle)

  4. Webcam not centered, he did on my right shoulder looking into no. mans land making it quite impossible to use and type at the same time.

  Where I am now... Well I took it to Portacom (west Perth) under warranty that I do not advise anyone to do as disassembled for replacement of the webcam, they were pretty useless, and they were pretty rude about it too.

  They said they tested the audio with intensively music with headphones too and can't find anything wrong with that, but yet it still crackles away murdering all my favorite music.

  They said that the WIFI hardware switch was caused by abuse, but there is no sign of violence.

  They do not have check the blue screen with windows 64-bit issue because I had long since given up that at this time.

  I was always a fan of Toshi and that's why I insisted we do a when I upgraded, but it seems he build quality has suffered a little since I finally bought a. I don't think I'll go to another ever again, this machine is wound very badly and has a huge impression cheap on this subject. Even more if you need any technical support, warranty or not, don't bother with Portacom. As I said they are rude and not much help at all really.

  Hey, man

  You are right, the A500 series have problems and the most annoying is audio crackles. I bought my round 4 monts ago and hoped that Toshiba should fix bugs of cracking, but it is still exists. I tried all Bios upgrade, reinstalling the driver, registry settings, but still no solution. As I see it, Toshiba is not care we or am I wrong? They have placed the same driver display simply by changing date you output. As for me, I don't often listen to music on my knees, using a portable mp3 player which fortunately not crackling.
  But anyway, I love this model. He has a good design, assemblage of powerful and high quality. I hope they fix some bugs in the future

  LEADING INNOVATION MUST BE FREE FROM CRACKLING

  Welcome them

• Satellite A500-149: how to turn the lights on the keyboard?

  Hello

  I bought the Toshiba Satellite A500 149.
  How do I activate the keyboard light? I try FN + Z and nothing... no lights on the keyboard!
  Can anyone help?
  I need to install anything to make it work?

  Toshiba Satellite A500-149 part number: PSAM3E-02K00DEP

  thnks

  Hello

  You must press the button on / off LED, which is part of the multimedia buttons of Toshiba. This button must be placed in the line where the other buttons such as play, pause, volume up and down are placed.

  So the light must be turned on. Then, you can set the backlight on the keyboard to Auto.
  Then the keyboard would hit any key.
  When you use FN + (keyboard sign (Z)), keyboard backlight turns off / Alternatively

• Satellite A500-1GL (PSAR9E) turns itself on at 08:20 every morning

  Hello

  I've had my Satellite A500-1GL (PSAR9E) for a few weeks now and it's great except, that he puts himself on every morning at about 08:20.

  Messages to the event log "event log has started" the last ten days or more:

  February 16, 2010 08:20:22
  February 15, 2010 08:20:22
  February 14, 2010 08:20:26
  February 13, 2010 10:17:37 (but I used the machine that morning and only stop at about 09:00).
  February 12, 2010 08:20:28
  February 10, 2010 08:20:28
  February 9, 2010 08:20:25
  February 8, 2010 08:20:30

  * The machine is * shut down * every night, (hibernation or suspended), usually between 23:00 and 01:00.
  * I was * stop * switch wifi on the case of the machine every night after his stop, (because I was wondering if the problem came from wake-up-on-lan).
  * I've been unplugging all the usb devices on the machine after
  * I have even unplugged my helmet just in case it makes a difference, (it's not)...

  I was leaving the unit plugged in, but there has been no interruption of power any since I got the machine.

  There is no one else at home when this happens, and I have no pets!

  I'm completely puzzled as to why the machine turns on, (and almost exactly the same time each day!)

  Anyone have any ideas here?

  Thank you

  Freddo

  Hi freddo

  Have you tried to load default BIOS settings?
  Entry of the parameters press F9 BIOS and save the settings.

  Check if this happens again.

• Satellite A500-138 - lighting buttons does not work even in the BIOS

  Hello.

  I'm just curious to know if anyone else has a problem with the (play/pause excatly) multimedia keyboard backlight? Mine died today, and there is nothing I can do to make it work again.

  The key still works, but when I turn on the backlight, backlight on everyone, but the play/pause (the backlight of the other keys work, touchpad and Satellite logo too).

  I use Windows 7, but the problem persists even in the BIOS.

  I think the backlight of the button is just dead.

  I have to admit I'm really disappointed with this laptop. Config is great, design and are also involved, but I can just take the couine noise that makes C2D (RMClock, one utility, I know that to solve this problem, does not recognize the A500 motherboard) and the fan almost never works to 70%, and now that the backlight...

  If the backlight of the multimedia key stops working after 3 weeks of use, which will be in the future? It's too scary to think ;)

  I was really excited by Toshiba, but day after day I come to the conclusion, that it is the first and the last laptop that I bought at Toshiba - never had similar problems on other laptops, same nonames.

  Of course, I know that I can has sent for fix, I guarantee (and wait about a month to get a backlight fixed stupid). But why hell not the backlight stoped working, if LEDs vitality is long as hell? It can mean two things: I really don't have a chance, or Toshiba did not pay too much attention to detail during production A500s. And after 3 weeks of use, I fear that the second option is much more likely...

  Then, someone has a feeling similar to this topic? And someone has a problem with backlight?

  Hello

  He damage of s to hear that your light has stopped working, but I think that it s just a software problem.
  I have a Satellite A500 equipped with buttons of enlightenment and everything works great with Vista and XP I m very satisfied.
  Unfortunately until that yet I didn't test with Win 7.

  I doubt you want to send this laptop for ASP, as I said, there seems to be a software problem and you can find it easily
  You must set the notebook to factory settings I mean that you must use the recovery disc in order to get the same State as on the first day of purchase

  Moreover, I visited the European driver of Toshiba page and, unfortunately, I didn't see no Win 7 drivers for this series at this time
  I guess that Windows 7 drivers will be released in the near future.
  So I wonder how you came to the button illumination because this feature requires the Toshiba driver and tools as well as the drivers aren't there?  :|

• Satellite A500 - 19 X - itself starts

  Hello

  I recently bought for a Toshiba Satellite A500-19 x and it's a great computer, but every now and then it powers itself up against the cold.

  I tried to test several times. I'll use it for a while and do a "Shut Down" on windows, but every now and then it lights. Often I will go off it before going to sleep and when I wake the computer is on standby by and do not start the system when I know that I made a SHUT DOWN. I also tried using Hibernate and various permutations but still no joy.

  I tried to read a simular thread
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=51374&start=15&TSTART=0

  This is the same thing, but I'll try to find a BIOS update file.

  Anyone know whay this is happening because it's very disheartening, after spending so much money on what o appeared to be a portable grand

  Thanks in advance. Kuldip

  Hi mate,

  I had a similar problem on my laptop that it powers on himself. Then I went into BIOS and disabled the following features:
  -Wake up on LAN
  -Wake up on keyboard
  Sleep - USB & Charge

  Now this didn't get more and if I could save the battery power a little more.

  In addition, the FAQ section here also shows an interesting article:
  [What I would do if my laptop starts only at 08:20 hours daily? | http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/ann.jspa?annID=76]

  So also try updating the BIOS. You can find it on the Toshiba European driver download page. :)

• Satellite A500-1GL - Touchpad can not be disabled

  Hello

  I'm new here and I have a * problem *:
  Unfortunately, I can't turn off my touchpad. With the FN + F9 and not even with this little button above the key.

  I hope someone can help me quickly. Before, thank you in advance!

  Sorry for my bad English, I hope you understand what I mean :)
  best regards from Germany,

  Jonny ;)

  PS: my laptop: Satellite A500-1GL

  Hello

  Have you tried to reinstall a driver for the touchpad?

  Post edited by: Jeka-HE