Satellite U400 - 112 (PSU40E) - Safe BIOS upgrade - SOLUTION

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• Re: Satellite U400-112 - BIOS update error

  Hello

  I have a Satellite U400-112 with Windows 7-64 bit OS. I can't upgrade my system v4.00 to v4.70 since windows or DOS.

  Specifically, when the upgrade starts according to the file and then check it stucks without any progress. This error means the two versions (DOS & Windows).
  I have a strong feeling that is a corrupted bios file. If someone can justify my feeling or a good file BIOS it is asked to answer.

  Thank you in advance,

  Ioannis

  Hey Buddy,

  Update the BIOS of BACK is not possible because the updates are only based on the Windows.
  In any case, what update BIOS error that you get exactly?

  If you try to update, make sure that the value added package is installed. That s necessary for the program to update the BIOS.

  But why do you want to update? Normally it of not necessary if your system works ok.

• Satellite U400-10W (PSU40E): need of BIOS to fix the battery problem

  Hello

  I already have a Satellite U400-10W (PSU40E) with the issue reported in the technical knowledge base (the battery is not recognized and does not load after a long period without power).

  To solve this problem I need a bios or above 3.0 but the latest available bios (4.00 - bios - 20090430082154.zip) in the download page refers to an invalid link.

  Please is - someone has a bios (version 3.0 or higher) for Win32 poster systems?

  Thanks in advance.

  OK, thanks for this entry.
  I think there could be something wrong with the Server driver Toshiba European page
  I think it will be corrected in the next time lets hope ;)

• Can satellite U400-112 - I switch to Windows 8

  Can I upgrade my Satellite U400-112 Win8?
  I have 4 GB of RAM and today I am running win7 Ultimate 64-bit

  Thank you

  Hello

  Visit http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/generic/windows8-message and that compatibility of Toshiba with the list of all matrix them currently supported models of laptops.

• Audio driver does not work on Satellite U400-112 with Vista 64-bit Buss

  Hello

  I installed Win Vista Buss. 64-bit on my Toshiba Satellite U400-112 but the original driver for the Toshiba site does not work properly, honestly does not at all. The only driver that works is a winner. Vista driver but when I plugged in her headphones just got pregnant shape, but there is no sound in headphones.

  Can someone help me, please?

  Hello!

  I have a Satellite U400 with Windows Vista 64 bit also, and I used the driver on the Toshiba site (Conexant 4.36.7.0).
  It works without problems, I can hear sounds with the speakers and headphones.

  Maybe you have an old BIOS. After the installation of Windows Vista, I made an update of the BIOS so try that too.
  The BIOS you can find also on the Toshiba site.

  Good bye

• Satellite U400-112 - WoW problems and the image is not good

  Hello!

  My laptop is Satellite U400-112 and matching video Intel X 3100.

  When I play in openGL, 3D graphics on minimum and the image quality are not good. The same situation with Direct3D even worse. I have a guess - the game not installed, I copied the folder with the game on another computer, maybe I need to reinstall? I installed the latest drivers for the video of the official website of Intel.

  Maybe someone have the same problem and can help me to solve it.

  Hello

  This only happens on the world of Warcraft or in other games too?

  I'm a bit confused because you have set the minimum graphics and then you wrote that the photo isn't good in my opinion that's normal as the photo isn't good, if you play on minimum graphics settings.
  Maybe you can post a screenshot screen or something else.

  You also need to update DirectX version on your laptop that you can find on the Microsoft Web site.

• Satellite U400-112 - new graphics driver (Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset)

  Hello
  I found the new driver for the Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset (driver 15.11.3.1576) on the website of intel, but I can't install it because it's not original Toshiba.
  I'm doing this because we're on the website of toshiba is pilot about a year.

  Does anyone have an idea how to install the latest driver for my laptop Satellite U400-112?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Generally, you can install the drivers Toshiba not only at your own risk.
  So if something will go wrong because of drivers Toshiba not then your warranty does not cover this.
  So this was a brief info about drivers not Toshiba.

  Now how do I install the driver;
  You can do so from the Device Manager. Go to the Device Manager. Choose the graphics card and to update the driver. Then a new window should open. Then, choose the Advanced installation procedure. Then choose don't search. I will choose the driver. Then point to the new Intel driver downloaded and applied.

  Welcome them

• Satellite U400 - I would like to upgrade graphics card

  I recently bought a Satellite U400 and would like to upgrade the chipset Intel 4 of the series, to a high-end graphics card.

  What cards are compatible with ths portable computer, who is the best, and how can it be installed?

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you!
  Joe

  Hello

  Maybe you should read this doc Toshiba FAQ:

  + Is it possible to upgrade the CPU/GPU of a Toshiba laptop +.
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ7A01ZW0007R01.htm

  There you can find information that a GPU upgrade is definitely not possible.

  Concerning

• Can't use the product key to install Vista on my Satellite U400-112

  HI, GOOD DAY

  I BOUGHT TOSHIBA SATELLITE U400-112, WINDOWS VISTA, I FORMATTED MY COMPUTER LAPTOP THEN I INSTALL WINDOWS VISTA, BUT WHEN I INTRED PRODUCT KEY (THAT OF THE LAPTP THUMBNAIL), A MESSAGE WILL APPEAR AND SAY THE P K IS NOT VALID!

  ALSO, MY WINDOWS VISA IS A VISTA ORIGENAL CD COPY, IT CAN BE RENEWED BUT DOES ' T ACCEPT MY LAPTOP PRODUCT KEY!

  WAIT FOR HELP, THANK YOU.

  Thank you for this return of experience and the posted answer! :)

  Good day!

• Satellite L100 112 of the bios language and core issue.

  Hi people!

  I have a satellite l100-112. (brief model number: psla3e)
  I updated my bios to the latest version, that I found on the toshiba site. v: 3.20
  Its specification states that its language is: "universal" :)
  Well, actually it is japanease. So now I have a working bios, but I'm not convinced :)
  Unfortunately, I did not save the backup image of the bios. Can you tell me where to find an English bios or an older bios?

  The other thing is:
  I use debian etch os. I wanted to compile a new kernel, but I need a more detailed specification of equipment or a configuration of kernel source to do, because I don't know the exact of the ide controller type.

  If someone can help me, please do! :)

  I thank you,
  Eddy

  Hello

  First as you probably don t know, Toshiba doesn't support the other operating systems like Microsoft Windows. This means that, also, the BIOS has been configured only for the use of Windows and not Linux.
  Secondly, as far as I know Toshiba public doesn't any BIOS details (source of the kernel configuration, etc.).

  > don t know the exact type of the IDE controller.
  The L100 doesn't support IDE controller but a SATA controller ;)

  See you soon

• Satellite M40x-112 - need advice on upgrade HARD disk

  Hello

  I have a Satellite M40x-112, it is almost 3 years and the hard drive (TOSHIBA MK8025GAS ATA) has problems, I need to change it, but I don't know a lot of this so I ask for help and advice on which hard drive should I buy for this laptop.

  I searched and read, but I still don't understand... In my view, there are many interfaces like PATA, SATA, ATA, then I saw ATA-2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 also Ultra-ATA/100, EIDE, IDE etc etc... so I'm really confused...

  What interface using my laptop? What interface to use the new hard disk?

  And what hard drive 2.5 "is good? You will find a large number of companies, which is the best hard drives for laptops?
  My current hard drive is fat 80 GB. I would switch to 160 or 250, this guy do you recommend?

  Thank you all very much for your help,

  I understand that very well the different titles of interface HARD drive confused most people me too in the past ;)

  Then I would try to clarify some things;
  There are two important differences between the interfaces of HDD; IDE (ATA, PATA and also known as EIDE) and SATA (SATA).

  ATA - 5, Ultra ATA/66 means Ultra DMA 3, 4 (44.4, 66.7) means UDMA/66
  ATA - 6 means that ultra ATA/100 that means UDMA 5 (100) means UDMA/100
  ATA - 7, Ultra-ATA/133 means that UDMA 6 (133) means UDMA/133

  and so now ;)

  Your laptop supports the drive HARD IDE (ATA-6) Enhanced interface and you must use the IDE HDD (NOT of SATA)

  I'm not sure on the size HARD disk max because Toshiba doesn't provide official information on the max supported drives hard but a 100 GB maybe 120 GB of HARD drive might be possible.

  Best regards

• Satellite U400-112 CD/DVD optical drive doesn't read CD disks

  Same problem, my CD/DVD drive doesn't read any cd, but it works with the DVD. Same problem if I try to burn CDs (it does not work, clear yellow on the drive and the drive gets hard blue light on the laptop (U305) permanently on) but it's ok to burn DVDs, even if it takes long to start reading a new dvd. How to solve it? I tried to find a new firmware for the drive, but apparently does not exist (my drive is HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-U10N ATA device). Can anyone help? .

  HI Arkadiusz Kulesza,

  You should try to clean the lens using a microfibre cloth. Maybe dust is on the lens it takes long to start to read the disc.

  I had a similar issue that he wasn t possible to burn a DVD and the reason was the CD/DVD drive itself. I replaced it with a new one and everything worked then! :)

• Satellite U400-112 - opening of the screen turns off the computer

  Hello

  When I open the screen, then when it crosses a certain opening angle, the computer is off. Then, I need to plug in the external power supply and remove the battery. After that, I can turn on the laptop.

  After my way back, when I turned on the laptop, the screen was white alone (no other colors) and when I open it again, disables NB.

  So I suppose, in the articulation of the screen cable are damaged. Because the external LCD (via VGA) works very well.
  Laptop is still under warranty. don't you think that it can be applied?

  Thanks for the tips, John.

  Hello John

  We don't talk much about it. If the warranty is still valid, contact the nearest Toshiba authorized service provider as soon as possible.
  They will fix it for free.

• Can satellite U400-112 - I retrieve C partition only?

  OK, so I want to recover my C partition only, and "Repair my computer" in the start menu does not work for some reason, I get an error saying: failed to load windows...

  I have the recovery DVDs, but if I use it, it says it will restore my entire hard drive... !
  Is there a method that will allow me to reset the C partition only to factory settings?

  PS. I still have the factory Windows running.

  Thank you for reading

  # You can grab the C partition only if you start the procedure of recovery disk using F8 and disturbances of my computer.

  When you use recovery DVD will be erased the entire HARD disk, partitions will be created, copied to the installation, and then the second partition recovery image will begin.

  After doing this you will have own OS preinstalled and F8 option works again. Don t do something with folder HDDRecovery on the second partition. Best thing you can do is put the file in invisible mode and you have not think there is. If a problem occurs, you can install OS again and again. Of course only the C partition is removed. All data saved on the second partition will always be there.

  For the moment, you have just one option back up all your important data to an external device and install the OS by using recovery DVDs.

  Good bye

• Satellite U400-112: impossible to format the local drive (damaged MFT?)

  Hello!

  I had a pretty serious problem with my HARD drive.
  250 GB HARD drive
  C: 116 GB - NTFS - Windows XP (Vista initially)
  D: 1, 5 GB - NTFS - (Vista Recover?..)
  E: 117 GB - RAW (was NTFS prior to crash)

  Local drive E: MFT have been damaged because of the virus attack (I hope not because of my madness!). It's NTFS, now it's RAW. I got all the necessary data partition with program ZAR, but all my attempts to recover or just the format E: remained unsuccessful.
  None of the defective sectors found on the HARD drive. Standard Windows tool to format the disks fails: 'it's impossible to finish the formatting of E:

  Before this problem with the E: drive, I had several problems with HARD drive. I have never divided re discs, to Partition Magic from the beginning he identified incorrectly. I tried Partition Magic 7 and 8.
  Link: [error screensaver | http://cs1498.vkontakte.ru/u169802/154397/x_3a82b4fb.jpg]

  The problem is that the special programs (I tried "find and Mount") also could not identify partitions to correct the defective MFT. I thought that low-level format can help me, but I heard, that the use of all applications for other producers can probably destroy my HARD drive. Are there only special applications of Toshiba developed for such cases? Or you can advice me something else?

  Thanks for your help!

  P.S. These applications did not help me:
  Find and Mount (can't find the HARD drive)
  Acronis Recovery Expert (does not find the HARD drive)
  OnTrack EasyRecovery Professional (does not resolve the error, but help to recovery data)
  HDD Regenerator

  Thus you get back all your important data?

  I would like to just launch Recovery to restore the HARD drive to its factory condition. If the recovery fails, you can try to delete the partitions with FDISK from a startup MS-DOS disk. Free bootdisks can be found at www.bootdisk.com

  FDISK can also repair a Master Boot Record by running this command: FDISK/MBR
  But it is not 100% reliable, it could cause more harm than good.