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• Installation of a missing mini PCI WiFi card in the Satellite 2450 101?

  My Satellite s2450-101 seems devoid of a WiFi card.

  There is no mention of such a card in the adapters in device Manager\Network, which lists the following three elements: 1) 1394 Net adapter MAC bridge Miniport) 2 and 3) Realtek RTL8139/810 x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
  The Wireless Communication switch on "on" does not have the led lights up.
  By pressing Fn + F8, that should turn the wireless LAN has no effect.

  Responses to the following would be much appreciated:

  The laptop S2450-101 comes equipped with a mini PCI WiFi card in standard, or not?

  If so, how can it be activated?

  If it is not the case, how can we install such a mini-PCI card? The laptop is more two years and more under warranty.

  Sincere thanks.

  Post edited by: SADobrowski

  Hello

  I found the info that this unit is ready WLAN and is attributed to the WLAN option in option. Check please the Device Manager and see if the wireless adapter is listed under network adapter. If this is not the case, the device is without wireless network card.

  Let us know if the card is on board and we can write once again how the card must be activated.

  I'm not 100% sure but I think that the WLAN slot is placed under the keyboard. There is also the antenna cables (black and white cable). Update is not a problem, and you can only do so at your own risk of course. ;)

  Unfortunately I put t know exactly what WLAN card is compatible. If you want you can use the external solution. It is much easier.

• On the Satellite A100-646 DVD drive replacement

  Hi all

  I want to replace the DVD drive on my laptop. (I never solved a lot of problems)
  Do you know if there is a list of compatibility for the A100-646 model?

  Model to suggest me?

  Thank you very much.

  Concerning
  Fabrizio

  Hello

  This info you can find in the document of the user s manual on page 7.
  I don't know which is placed in your laptop now but to choose one of the listed DVD super multi drives.

  Bye and good luck!

• The satellite A65-S1063 DVD drive does not work with this type of disc

  Hello world
  have a strange problem - my combo does not read dvd - r of a box. Everything is ok, when I put a disk anywhere else, but in this particular area or empty or written are recognized, it crashes just after trying to read and the lamp burning. The most funny thing is that when I check the discs on other computers, everything is fine with them. Any ideas?

  Hello

  For me it s case. You have updated firmware and this kind of DVD is not listed in the list of firmware. As Stefan has suggested, try a different brand of DVD.

• Satellite 2450-101 after the 60 GB HARD drive upgrade, made only to see 30 GB

  Hello world

  I'm new to this forum. I own a 2450-101, a little old man, real it´s, but still a very nice PC. Harman-Kardon louspeakers make it very useful for music.

  I would switch the HD, so I installed a new 60 GB (the maximum taken in charge, I said) and used the recovery CD.

  Everything worked perfectly, but it seems that only 30 GB can be seen by Windows. I heard, that I might need to update the BIOS. Mine is version 1.50.

  After a long search through sites Toshiba and the Inetrnet, I can only find updates the BIOS for the new models...

  only reference I've seen is on this page: http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/faq.jsp?service=EU&FID=TRO0000000b07, but

  Yet once I don't find Bios for my model.
  Please any help would be really appreciated ;)

  Hello

  You are right. This laptop is a bit old, but very nice. It provides performance enough for someone in need of this laptop only for everyday use.

  As for you statement about 60 GB of HARD drive. Well, I m a bit confused.
  How did you check the size of the HARD drive and why you say that it recognize only 30 GB?
  How did you check that? And you are sure that you have installed and 60 GB HARD drive?

  I recommend to check the size in disk management!

  With regard to the BIOS;
  The BIOS for this laptop is on the Toshiba driver page:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp

  There, you have to search in archive Archive Satellite Satellite 24xx Satellite 2450-101.
  As far as I know the BIOS 1.50 is available on the page!

• How to boot from the CD from Toshiba - Satellite 2450-101?

  Hello everyone,

  I would like to know how to start from the cd to install windows xp.
  I have a toshiba laptop (Satellite 2450-101).
  I'm not sure but I think dat This model has a DVD player in scii. Dat is the problem?

  Kind regards
  Steve.

  Hello

  If you use the internal CD/DVD drive you press simply the C key immediately after starting the laptop or you will simply change the boot order in the BIOS to CD/DVD drive.

• How to remove the password of BIOS on Satellite 2450-101?

  I have a Satellite 2450-101 and it seems that my HARD drive is already damaged. I would like to boot from the CD/DVD drive, but it won't start? It has a power on password too and I want to remove it but I can not enter or it does not penetrate into the BIOS settings?

  What can I do? Any suggestions?

  Am I entitled? You want to remove the BIOS password?
  Unfortunately, something like this is not possible! If you n t the BIOS password you can not delete it! Only the ASP in your country could do this!

  So if you want to remove it, contact the authorized service provider!

  But you want to boot from the CD! Am I wrong? Why you t n try to use the F12 key to get the start menu?
  After mobile power press F12 and you should be able to choose the STRANGE as a source of start-up! But the CD/DVD must be inserted before using this option.

  Try this!

• Satellite 2450-101: can I run recovery external HARD drive or USB key using

  Hello.

  I have a Satellite 2450-101, on which the DVD player seems to have failed (could be engine, laser; uncertain).

  I want to perform a full restore of the product, using both disks that came with the computer.
  Defective hard drives before, I copied the data on these disks to an external hard drive and a usb flash drive.

  Is it possible for me to run the recovery of the proceeds of one of these media (or indeed any source, other than the internal DVD player)?

  Any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated. See you soon.

  > Defective hard drives before, I copied the data on these disks to an external hard drive and a usb flash drive.
  > Is it possible for me to run the recovery of the proceeds of one of these media (or indeed any source, other than the internal DVD player)?
  Hmmm I doubt that this can be possible because it is not possible to boot from a USB flash or external HARD disk drive.

  What you could do is to copy the folder the original Microsoft CD i386 on the HARD drive and then you can run setup.exe from this folder.
  It would begin installing the XP installation program.

  But Toshiba Recovery disk contains only image files and there is no i386 folder and therefore, you need the CD of XP Ms.

• Satellite 2450-101: need last display driver

  Satellite 2450-101 with geforce4 420go - last display driver? Posted the: 7 May 06 18:12

  My laptop does not work the games 'Fear' or 'Call of cthulhu.
  The errors seem to relate to the display (fear gives an empty window, even if the sound is running, then crashes. Cthulhu says that it cannot find a suitable resolution).

  The latest display driver I can find is dated 36,48 Date 02/12/2003 version.
  It looks pretty old. Is no later versions available?

  I also see that there is an update of the BIOS for my laptop - is - this may have an impact on the problem of game?

  Anyone who manages to run these games on a similar specification?

  Thank you
  Jan

  Hello

  The problem is that the graphics drivers from Toshiba are distinguished as the graphics of origin for example nVidia drivers.
  Original graphics drivers are designed for desktop use and you may not use these drivers, as they can damage the graphics chip for laptop. Graphics drivers from Toshiba support thermal protection and control the performance of the graphics card.

  As far as I know that this unit has been delivered with a NVidia GeForce4 420Go 32 MB graphics card. You can try to check out the other laptops with the same graphics card and try to use this driver.
  I also found a few topics on the omega drivers. It seems that this could be a good solution, but if you use other drivers, so you can do it at your own risk!

  Here is the link:
  http://www.OmegaDrivers.NET/NVIDIA.php

• Replacing hard drive for Satellite 2450-101

  Hi, my laptop hard drive is broken and I need a hard drive replacement for my aging * Satellite 2450-101 * urgent, but I can't find my mannual and another source model support for portable computers.

  I thought it was a * standard internal 2.5 "IDE * (and thinking about buying a digital _Western 250GB 2.5" IDE hard drive 5400 RPM 8 MB Cache - OEM, model _: _WD Scorpio WD2500BEVE - 250 GB - ATA-100_), but I am not sure.
  If anyone knows? Help, please. Thank you very much!

  I think 120 GB maximum capacity too.

  If you have misplaced the user manual you can download it on the Toshiba site:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com-online downloads support & -online manual

  I founded you can use a second HARD drive in the Bay to select if you need more disk space.
  Drive external HARD is also a good solution for more disk space.

• HARD drive password prompt - Satellite 2450-101

  Hello everyone!...

  I am a new user and would like to know if anyone has any suggestions of how I can fix my computer problem?

  I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite 2450-101 that I recently brought a new battery and the adapter because due to the machine is not used for several months, everything was fine for a few hours!... the screen became 'blue' and I restarted the program, but then, I proceeded to get an error message (forgive me, because I don't remember exactly what he said!) who said something about Realteck? and Ethernet cable error and then prompted me to insert system disk?

  Unfortunately after pressing enter the same message kept in view, finally I decided to used the drive recovery to re - start the computer but all I get now is the ' screen of welcome-followed by long pause, followed by a black screen that ask to ceiling "HDD password?

  Does anyone know if it is a fixable problem?

  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
  I have

  Hello

  Looks like your HARD drive is locked using a HARD drive password.
  I put t know why this password is necessary but if you don t know this password, then your HARD drive is no longer available and you will need to buy a new one.

  Eventually it s simply a matter of HARD drive and, therefore, the laptop crashed before this HARD drive password appeared so I think that you need a new HARD drive.

  Good bye

• Required display Vista driver - Satellite 2450-101

  Hello

  I have upgraded to Vista and need drivers video/display for Satellite 2450-101. Is there a place to support Vista?

  Hello

  I hope you know how old your laptop model is and also older models are not supported in Vista. This means that you will not find any driver on the Toshiba download page.

  You can google a little and try to find somewhere driver if they are available. Appliance graphics card is NVidia GeForce4 420Go. Maybe you will be lucky and find. :)

  Good luck!

• IDE #1 error when changing from my dvd on the Satellite 2450-401

  Hello
  I just bought a Toshiba sd-r6472 dvd - rw to replace my old Teac on my Satellite 2450-401 dvd\cdrw. When I restart my computer, I get the error ide #1 and after loading the system (Windows and Linux) my new DVD - RW disc is not seen. I tried to install it under widows with the computer running is the same I don't see, but to the list I can open it (in there now). I updated my BIOS nothing. This DVD - RW works very well on a laptop of another producer. I tried to install another DVD - RW drive, it's the same thing. I have read a few forums and apparently the Toshibas have a few problems, readers are CSEL and put it into a slave (the player is all pine is plug and play) you must connect to pins or something like that. Can someone help me? It's stupid that a Toshiba drive does not work on a Toshiba laptop and works on another... If there is a simpler method to install it will help me much

  Hi Michael

  Before starting any discussion about your problem please use advanced search on this forum option and put the IDE #1 as search terms. You'll see on this forum, you will find a lot of similar topics. Check a little. You may find the answer. If this isn't the case, write again please.

  Good luck!

• Satellite 2450-101 - memory - expansion which is the maximum?

  I want to upgrade the RAM on my Satellite 2450-101. Some say (especially Crucial) Web sites, I can have a maximum of 2 GB of RAM, but others (mainly Kingston) give a 1 GB maximum. Can I extend the RAM to 2 GB?
  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Hello

  Since intel mobile chipset is in your machine, you can only change it to 1024 MB (1 GB) RAM maximum. All other information is certainly not true. :)

  Greetings

• Satellite 2450-101 How do wirleless?

  I have the 2450-101.
  If I dial my BT wireless home network, what should I do for this computer?
  Material is involved or just to download a driver?

  Sorry to be so thick - I am not a technophile.
  Thanks in advance.

  You want to connect to the WLan router wireless?

  Well, as far as I know this laptop is an oldie and the WLan card was optional.
  This means that not all Satellite 2450-101 were equipped with the internal WLan card

  If your laptop was not equipped with the WLan card, then I recommend to use an external solution such as WLan USB stick which supports the WLan standard even as your WLan router.

  Concerning