Satellite A500 and TV tuner feature

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• Satellite A500 and Win8 - DVD player does not work

  I upgraded my Satellite A500-17 X to Windows 8, but now my DVD drive does not work.

  Anyone know how I can get it working again.
  Thank you.
  Cumbria

  Solution here:
  http://www.CSD.Toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...e&soID=3516888

  * Uninstall Toshiba programs: *.
  • TOSHIBA Recovery Media Creator
  • TOSHIBA Disc Creator
  Then restart your PC using the power--> reboot option in Windows 8.
  Your CD/DVD should be available now.
  To help uninstall these programs, follow the instructions below

  * To uninstall a program or application: *.
  1. on the home screen, type Control Panel
  2. select Programs--> uninstall a program
  3. find two programs listed above and uninstall these applications
  4. once the application programs are uninstalled, restart your computer using the power--> reboot option in Windows 8
  5. when the power to the computer on the CD/DVD drive should be available
  If the CD/DVD drive still does not appear, follow the instructions below to uninstall a device driver

  * To uninstall a device driver: *.
  1. on the home screen, type Device Manager
  2. Select Device Manager > CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives > right click on the displayed device > select uninstall.
  3. once the driver uninstall, shut down your computer by using the method of restart. The driver will be installed automatically when the computer restarts.
  4. the CD/DVD drive should now be shown.

• Satellite A500 and annoying problem HDMI

  Hello world

  I bought a Satellite A500 a year ago and I'm trying to use it with my Pannasonic Veria Plasma TV connected via HDMI. The way I use it is I leave the HDMI cable connected all the time and then swap between the use of the TV and my laptop. The problem I have is that it will not failover to the HDMI, I even try to disconnect the cable and by him plugging back in - then the screen turns off to switch but then it goes to the rear of the laptop screen.

  After doing during up to 10 times it will eventually reverse but will then swap back to the laptop after about 10 seconds and that case I must keep trying until it finally works - VERY BORING

  Hoping someone can help.

  Thank you

  The

  And what happens when you start your laptop without HDMI cable connected?
  Connect when the OS is fully charged, then when the active TV and HDMI port correctly, try to switch to TV ONLY using FN + F5.

  It works or the same thing happens again?

  I understand your question, but there is not a special solution. Connection HDMI either works or not.

  By the way: do you use original with Toshiba drivers Toshiba (preinstalled OS) recovery image?

• Satellite A500 and use external monitor

  Hello

  I bought recently (yesterday) a Toshiba Satellite A500.

  I am using an external monitor AND the laptop screen. At this point, the two screens are working well but have the same images/windows.

  I want to do is have each screen show another window/program running and being able to drag and drop etc seamlessly between screens.

  When I bought the laptop, I asked about this and was informed that Windows would recognize the second monitor and would encourage me to choose from a list of display options, however it is not happened.

  Can you help me?

  Kind regards

  What you need is the parameters of good monitors. So what you have now is the clone mode and you need to enlarge the bureau. I put t know precise adjustments on this model of laptop, but enter the screen resolution settings and check if there is possibility to enlarge the bureau. If not, t go into the advanced settings and check if you can find it here.

  I Don t monitor external and impossible to check it for you, but I m you will find.

• Satellite A500 and Kernel-Power problem

  Computer stops responding or displays the blue screen or restart unexpectedly. I followed these steps and could not solve my problem. Help, please...

  1. perform a clean boot device to determine if it is caused by the incompatible driver.

  1) click "Start" and type "DEVMGMT. MSC"in the search text box and press ENTER.
  (2) develop "audio, video and game controllers".
  (3) right click on your sound card, select "Properties".
  4) click 'Pilot', click Disable the selected device. Click OK
  (5) Please use the same method to disable other devices such as: Modem, network card, CD - R drive. Please note that some devices such as the video card are not available should be disabled.
  (6) Please restart the computer.

  2. update all the drivers of devices to the latest version. You can contact the manufacturer to get drivers.

  3. try to disable AutoReboot thanks Regritry.

  1) click Start, type regedit in the search box and press ENTER.
  2) navigate to the next item:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\CrashControl

  (3) change the values of the following entries:

  AutoReboot REG_DWORD 0x1
  CrashDumpEnabled REG_DWORD 0x1

  (4) restart the computer and see if the problem persists.

  4. If the issuer continues, Solid troubleshoot this kind of problem, I recommend allows you to collect for an accurate diagnosis minidump files:

  Get the Minidump files
  =================
  1. click on 'Start', enter 'SYSDM. CPL"(without the quotes) in the search bar and press ENTER.
  2. switch to the "Advanced" tab and click on the button 'Settings' under 'startup and recovery '.
  3. under 'Writing debugging information' section, make sure that the "partial memory (128 KB) image" option is selected.
  4. make sure that '% SystemRoot%\Minidump' is in the 'small dump directory"open the box and click OK.

  Hello

  To be honest I n know where you based these steps and I m also confused why you change something in the Windows registry.

  You should be a bit more detailed. That means that what blue stop screen code you get exactly?
  What operating system you are using?
  Have you checked for yellow exclamation marks Device Manager?

  Have you already tried to reinstall Windows? If the problem persists after reinstalling Windows, it seems to be a malfunction of the equipment.

• Re: Satellite A500 and Web camera installation

  How to get started installing web camera on the laptop?

  Hello

  Go to the utilities of start-all the programs-Toshiba - Toshiba - Web camera application.
  If you want to know more information, how to use, check, operating manuals.

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• Satellite A500 - crackling sounds and blue screen

  Hey everybody.

  I bought a laptop Toshiba Satellite A500-19w about 4 days ago (today it is Sunday, March 7, 2010).

  I had the sounds of crackling of my speakers which have been mentioned so many times in the forums, no real solution.
  I also experienced the crash of the blue screen, that's already happened 7 times while I was not strongly using my newly buy laptop.
  I'm not looking for a repair or a replacement, because I find it quite unacceptable to have to think about the errors, faults & fixes as much as the laptop is brand new.

  What I want is a refund, but I'm not sure on how to do it.

  I know that Toshiba has some sort of refund policy, but if someone can tell me exactly how it works, because I want to get rid of my laptop as soon as possible (I will not buy any more portable Toshiba, especially since I had some similar problems with my Qosmio f30).
  If someone can give me some guidance, because I don't want to be mocked or used and cheated out of refund.
  I bought my Toshiba in the Middle East (perhaps refund policies are different here).
  Thank you.

  Post edited by: mihran

  Hi mihran.

  If you want to pay off your laptop, you should talk with your computer store where you bought it. Only the can repay your laptop and not Toshiba directly.
  Of course it is also depending on the country where you life, but normally you can pay within 14 days I think. So in your case I speak with the seller or give them a call. They explain how to do this.

  But let me give you a little advice: regarding your problems with the crackling sound and blue screen I recommend that you contact an authorized service provider or ask a new A500 (this should be possible if you have only 4 days). Generally, I can say that a friend of mine has Satellite A500 and he is quite satisfied with her. This laptop has a great design equipped with new material for a good price. :)

• Satellite A500 - upgrade the processor and RAM void my warranty?

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A500, and I think to upgrade my processor CPU and RAM. If I open it invalidate or do I need a Toshiba authority to open it? Removes the card RAM will void the warranty?

  All I need to know is that can I put RAM and CPU processor without voiding the warranty

  Hey,.

  If you upgrade the CPU, you will cancel the warranty because this upgrade is not supported from Toshiba.
  In addition, I put t understand why you buy a laptop, and then you think of some hardware upgrades. In your case, I'd rather bought a laptop with faster processor and more RAM.

  See also this article from Toshiba:
  [Is it possible to upgrade the CPU or GPU of a Toshiba laptop computer? | http://APS2.Toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB9401AX0001R01.htm]

  Finally and above all a RAM upgrade is not a problem. So check your user manual how to do this.

• Satellite A500 Win8 has encountered a problem during installation

  Hello
  Ive got a Satellite A500 and get at the end of the installation and its reversal to say he had a problem. Do you need to do something special?

  I looked on the site to support Toshiba win 8 and it does not show the Satellite A500 in one of the lists of supported or not supported for Win8 so because you did it gave me some hope.

  See you soon

  Hello

  Here you can find information on models of laptops that will make the Win 8 Toshiba Upgrade Wizard:
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB2A03EU0000R01.htm

  Those notebooks of Win 7 will get Win 8 drivers.
  If your laptop is not mentioned in this list, then you will get no win 8 drivers.

  Of course, you can always install the 8 to win but you need find drivers manually in your own hand.

  Also check * Windows 8 Upgrade Guide *.
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB2A03EJ0001R01.htm

• Satellite A500: card reader cause BSOD

  Hi I have a satellite A500 and its card reader (jmicron) is dead.
  It is for me a bsod.
  I solved my problem without installing driver jmicron and use xp.
  In win 7 gives me a bsod always because win 7 driver jmicron.

  My question is:
  Can I remove the motherboard card reader?

  Sorry for my English thanks

  No, you can't do that I think that the card reader is part of the mobo and it s not removable.
  But you can turn off the card reader in Device Manager.
  Have you tried that? If this isn't it!

• Satellite A500 - mousepad crashes whenever I go on the internet

  Hi all

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A500 and every time I go on the internet my mouse pad freezes. The only option I have is to restart the computer again. This is getting very frustrating because I don't know what to do?
  If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

  See you soon

  Karen.

  Hello, Karen

  To be honest I have never heard of something like this and you believe one with this strange issue.
  I would like to know since when you noticed this? I can't imagine that this problem persists since the first day.
  You have an original preinstalled operating system?

  I guess the first step can be updated to BIOS. Latest version of the BIOS is installed on your laptop satellite?

• Satellite A500 - correction required for AVATAR on Blu - Ray?

  I have a satellite A500 and it will not play AVATAR on Blu - Ray. I understand there is a required hotfix.

  Where can I get the patch?

  See you soon
  Richard

  Hi richard70au,

  To be honest I n not know what patch you mean.

  Where did you read this information? Normally, you can play all DVD or Blu - Ray without having to install a patch.

  But don't forget that not all A500 have Blu - Ray player. Do you have a?

• Satellite A500: Low resolution using Win 7

  Hello

  I have looked around the forum and have found no real solution to my problem so...
  I recently bought a Satellite A500 and did a clean installation of Windows 7 Professional on this subject.

  Apparently, I had to just update to keep the drivers, but being the noob that I am, I have not.
  So now that my resolution is stuck at 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600, neither of which are native.

  I downloaded the drivers 64-bit win7 on the Toshiba site, but apparently, I already have the latest ATI driver installed.
  However, I can't always change the resolution, and my monitor is recognized as generic non - PnP.
  Is it possible to check if I have the display driver?

  And also all the solutions for the display problem would be very grateful. It's the only thing that remains now bothering me on this new laptop.

  Hello

  I assume you are using Win 7 64 bit OS because you selected the display of Win 7 64-bit driver is good?

  What A500-xxx you have exactly?
  The European driver Toshiba page provides three different display drivers for the A500 series. Intel, nVidia and ATI
  Seems three different graphics chips were installed in series A500

  You should first check what graphics chip using your laptop
  Then go to Device Manager and uninstall the display driver.
  Then visit the page of the European driver Toshiba, download the display on the right for the graphics chip driver and install it.

  Then restart the device and check how would go to the laptop.

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• Satellite A500 - nothing appears on the screen of laptop

  My laptop is a Satellite A500 and I had for about a year and a half, he has never dropped or slammed, and up to this point, it worked correctly, most of the time.

  One night, I unplugged and turned it off and the next morning, the display would not work. There was no flicker and the display had never before gone so far here. Curiously, some of the LEDs on the laptop keyboard area stopped work as well, such as the light touch pad, the volume key, etc..
  However, the webcam and power/network lights still work. In addition to these problems, everything still works and I can still use an external monitor, such as a monitor.

  Based on these details, does anyone have an idea as to what is the problem? Or how I should go about fixing it?

  If there is no reaction on the screen there must be a problem with the LCD connection to the motherboard.

  Without accurate diagnosis, it is not easy to say exactly, what may be defective. Fact is that all these symptoms say there must be a hardware problem and you should clear it with Toshiba service.

  Warranty is still valid?

• Re: Satellite A500 - keyboard is not recognized

  Hello

  I have a Satellite A500 and I can't get the computer to recognize the keystrokes when I type my password to get into the computer. This is why I can't on the computer at all. The cursor flashes in the password box and when I click it with the mouse also recognizes this function but I can't go any further.
  This has happened a number of times now and it's been really annoying

  Does anyone have a solution for this please? Is it to do with tapping? FN + F9 don't working.

  Australian salvation,

  You mean the password for your Windows user account? Normally, if you start the computer, you can begin with password enter because the cursor blinks already in the password box.

  Can you enter the password if you connect an external keyboard? If so, this would mean that the internal keyboard is defective. In addition, it would be interesting to know if you can access the BIOS by pressing F2 on the internal keyboard. So, you can check if the problem comes from related software or not.

  By the way: FN + F9 can only toggle the touchpad, but not the keyboard.