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  1. Kbaru

    [SOLVED] I accidentally scratched my HDD's PCB ?

    I tried to take out this hdd from a laptop and accidentally scratched a deep cut as such. BIOS still detect the hdd just fine, but installing Windows in it would result in BSOD everytime, i tried to install Kali Linux in it and it's fully operational and normal until i restart my pc, and now...
  2. Ferx4245

    Question Bios for Toshiba satellite S855D-S5148

    Hi guys I have a problem with my old Toshiba Satellite laptop I have buy two ddr3 8gb sticks of ram but my laptop doesn't accept it this a laptop that I Wana upgrade for my little girl for school the bios that comes with its v6.4 I been searching non stop for almost two weeklapto now and I don't...
  3. T

    Question Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5106 won't turn on, ON/OFF light doesn't turn on either

    Hello folks, hoping to get more insight on what actually failed on my laptop. The laptop is responsive to the charger (the Battery light turns on when connected) and the power button seems to be functioning since the Wireless indicator light turns on upon pressing it. However, the ON/OFF light...
  4. S

    Question Toshiba 18TB HDD problem

    I have a Toshiba 18TB hard drive, model number MG09ACA18TE. Recently, I found that it seems to be malfunctioning. Its capacity has been used up to about 90%, with only a little over 1TB of capacity remaining. I often encounter system freezes when reading files from it, and then the drive letter...
  5. ImZary

    Question Internal SATA/HDD cable for the Dynabook Satellite Pro L50-G-11H ?

    As the title says, I'm inquiring about where I can find the internal SATA/HDD cable for my satellite pro L50-G-11H cause for the life of me I can't find it anywhere, nowhere online, not on ebay, not locally. it doesn't seem to exist anywhere, & it's driving me nuts cause now I can't even upgrade...
  6. H

    Question Is it possible that someone hacked my laptop BIOS?

    Several years ago, my neighbor hacked my laptop through my vintage Wi-Fi router (wpa-2!). During his repeated modifications to my hard drive, Windows 7 at the time, he mistakenly thought my CPU was 64-bit. Apparently the Toshiba L305 laptop came in 32 or 64-bit configurations. I started...
  7. Petrushka9

    Question Toshiba/Dynabook Portege Z30 can't boot UEFI mSATA SSD above 128 GB

    I am having an issue with a Toshiba Portege Z30 BIOS VER. 6.5 03/06/2018 (latest) Have Windows 10 Pro installed On a 128 GB mSATA SSD in UEFI mode and that runs fine. TPM and Secure boot off. No fast boot option in this BIOS. Got a new Kingston 512 GB mSATA SSD to transfer my system to. Have...
  8. M

    Question Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5218 BIOS Password

    I have a Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5218 laptop. The BIOS supervisor password got set on it, and now I can not boot up the laptop. I've been to the Toshiba support site and a few others. I get a different answer as to how to clear the BIOS. I've looked for Jumper's, I've taken out the CMOS battery...
  9. F

    Question Toshiba L755D-128 and Connexant 20587 11-Z

    After 2 decades of reading the questions of others in the hopes of getting my answer this is my very first thread/post. I had a Toshiba L755D-128 Laptop from around 2012. I dug it out and I found it to be like Win98 type slow and the only media I tested was youtube which was constantly glitchy...
  10. D

    Question Toshiba dynadock PA3927U-1PRP Ethernet Performance

    I have the Toshiba dynadock U3.0 (PA3927U-1PRP) that is paired with a Toshiba Qosmio X70 AST3GX1 (ancient I know, but it still performs well), and it works fine, but the ethernet port is not producing gigabit speeds. According to the specification sheet (linked below), it does have gigabit...
  11. jzeds1491

    Question HDD lost file system, again! How to fix?

    Hi everyone. I have a 4TB Toshiba Sata internal HDD drive that im using as an external storage (with a sata to usb converter and a trusted power supply) to store my files locally. but yesterday my drive turned into an unallocated hard disk and is inaccessible . I'm sure my data is totally...
  12. D

    Question Only One USB port working on Win 10

    I installed Windows 10 Latest version(32bit) on my battery dead Toshiba Satellite pro L850 laptop yesterday..and install some updates also.. but after that only one of USB port work for mouse.. there are 3 ports.i think other 2 port are USB 3.0 (because of the inside color is blue) .one and...
  13. quirohn02

    Question Recover old Toshiba Satellite C50-B-14D

    Hi, I have this old Toshiba Satellite C50-B-14D that my family used years ago. Actual specs: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2830 2.16GHz 4 GB RAM 500 GB HHD (basic HHD of Thosiba) Windows 10 Currently the computer runs very slow (to open the file manager takes almost a minute), it is practically...
  14. H

    Question CPU t4400

    I have a Toshiba L510 PSLQ0K-02N005 laptop with a T4400 slow as molasses in winter. Upgraded ram from 2gb to 8 and clean install windows 10 working much better but wanted to upgrade my cpu. Just for hobby and to learn a bit about upgrading laptops with pga sockets. I have gaming laptops...
  15. eses125

    Question Error when Change Booting System to Uefi

    I have a laptop without a screen, I use it on an external monitor using a vga output, its boot system was csm and I modified the BIOS to use another hard that boots via uefi and when saving the setting, I rebooted and the screen became black and there is no response, I tried several ways such as...
  16. P

    [SOLVED] Laptop hdd change

    What needs to be checked for a hdd change on a laptop? Can an hdd from another laptop brand be used on the other, fpr example using a dell laptop hdd on a asus laptop, is there any universal size for the hdd or do each laptop have a specific size or fit ? In this case its for a Toshiba c45...
  17. P

    Question Toshiba Satellite laptop "no bootable device"

    Hello, wanted to write this to seek some possible help on a toshiba satellite c45, when turning on it didnt get past the loading toshiba screen it wouod just pop up the text with "no bootable device please insert..." i tried some toggling on the bios menu by pressing f12 but wasnt able to get...
  18. fitzy_rs

    [SOLVED] Trouble moving from PATA/IDE HDD to SATA HDD in PATA/IDE ODD port - old XP Laptop

    Hi all, first time poster here. I've been trying for a few days off and on to get my old Toshiba Satellite (M70) PSM73A-00F007 cloned and running off a new HDD. I'm really hoping I'm going to look like an idiot and there's a super simple answer...but I'm really struggling to find a reference...
  19. L

    [SOLVED] Seek Error Rate Warning - - - Is it time to RMA my Toshiba HDD ? .

    I'm running a Toshiba 8TB X300 HDD (HDWR180XZSTA) that is 11 months old (with a 2 year warranty). Yesterday I received a warning under Windows of a SMART warning for the "Seek Error Rate" and that 'Drive Failure is Imminent' with an offer to back up my drive NOW. CrystalDiskInfo confirmed the...
  20. devjamesje

    [SOLVED] Add a M.1 drive to a laptop with an SSD already in it?

    Hi all! I was wondering if there was any way to install a M.1 Drive into a computer with a full sized SSD already installed into it (Computer is Toshiba Tecra z40a), and then use both as storage devices? I have recently been coming low to storage on my device with little applications installed...
  21. D

    [SOLVED] Unable to to install windows 10 from USB pen drive ?

    I recently upgraded my pc hardware (Toshiba Satellite c50 A) by adding SSD 256 gb and extra ram of 4 gb. Now my ram is 8 gb. Before upgrading hardware, I also had window 10, but old version (I had disabled updates). After the hardware upgrade, I installed the lattest version of window 10 by as...
  22. T

    BSOD Toshiba Satellite

    This laptop was shutting off randomly and it still does to this day, it cannot be used and this screen pops up, i dont have the battery in it btw. https://pasteboard.co/3ljrIjZsGWmz.jpg
  23. PiersJH

    [SOLVED] Toshiba Disk Shift values - are they accurate and do they matter?

    This is posted in reference to an older thread - link here - but tldr; I have two N300 8TB drives and the Disk Shift value seems to go from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions. Reading about these SMART value makes me concerned as none of my other drives have them, but the consensus seems...
  24. M

    Question Can't use dedicated graphics card (R5 m230)

    Please, help. I tried everything but I can't use R5 M230 as my graphics card, only the R3 Graphics (integrated). Uninstalled the most recent AMD Radeon Software and Drivers and installed the Adrenalin 19.12.1, still, I can't change to my dedicated graphics card, even though it's more like a...
  25. DarkLibra

    [SOLVED] Windows could not configure windows to run on this computer hardware.

    Hi, I would need a help on this. I tried to reinstall Windows 10 on my Toshiba C55-A5300 . After all the process it ended up here: "windows could not configure windows to run on this computer hardware". I am so confused because it is running Windows 10 like 15 minutes ago, I just needed a clear...
  26. GamesCell

    [SOLVED] Laptop not working after CPU upgrade

    Hello there. I have upgraded my old laptop today from Intel Core i5 2450m to Intel Core i7 3630qm, to give it a new life. Please note that the laptop model I am talking about is a Toshiba Satellite L855 S5240, a laptop that has the compatible socket and chipset(Mobile HM76 Express Chipset) for...
  27. GamesCell

    [SOLVED] Laptop not starting after CPU upgrade

    Hello there. I have upgraded my old laptop today from Intel Core i5 2450m to Intel Core i7 3630qm, to give it a new life. Please note that the laptop model I am talking about is a Toshiba Satellite L855 S5240, a laptop that has the compatible socket and chipset(Mobile HM76 Express Chipset) for...
  28. V

    Question Toshiba Satellite C55t-C5300 shutting off on its own after hardware upgrade.

    Hello! So I have had this Toshiba Satellite laptop for a while, and recently decided to upgrade the hardware inside. I had 6 GB of RAM in this laptop which I upgraded to 16 GB. I had a 2.5" 1 TB HDD (that was actually close to failure from being constantly floored) that I replaced with a 2.5" 1...
  29. H

    [SOLVED] How can I enter Bios mode on an external monitor?

    Hi, I have a Toshiba satellite laptop p55w-b5220 that had it's screen broken. I can't see absolutely anything and used to use my T.V as an alternative display. Laptop was accidentally shutdown while in a Windows update so I'm trying to recover it but can't access the Bios mode since the screen...
  30. Didou21

    Question toshiba usb3 hdd does not work with my motherboard

    i search a lot in the internet and tried many things but nothing worked for me, My 1tb toshiba hdd is not working in my pc only ,i tried with windows 7,8,10 but get the same result in disk manager it said "Disk is not ready" when trying to initialize it. it works with other PC an even with my...
  31. M

    Question Mastercode for toshiba

    Hello everybody i need mastercode for Toshiba hdd MQ01ABF050 2.5" 500gb. Had to do plate swap (everything on old hdd died and client had some data on it so i swaped plates and got Enter user code and than master code.... -.-' As with all big company's didnt get respons.
  32. G

    [SOLVED] No UEFI on Qosmio x875-Q7280. Neccesary?

    Hello to all! I own a Toshiba Qosmio x875-Q7280 that I purchased new in 2011. During these years there have been many BIOS versions have been released but I haven't installed any because I was afraid to ruin it as once I upgraded the BIOS and my laptop started to overheat. Hopefully I was able...
  33. vkatsarelias

    Question Toshiba laptop suddenly turned off and really unstable after restart

    My relative has a Toshiba Satellite C50-A-19T laptop with an Intel Celeron 1005M. She left it for a bit, just sitting there with Chrome open. Then it decided to lock on its own and restart abruptly. 5 seconds after the restart it completely shut down and did not start again. I checked the...
  34. N

    Question New 2.5-inch SSD not recognised on Toshiba Satellite C45 ?

    Hello, hope whoever finds this thread is having a nice day. I have a Toshiba Satellite C45 ASP43010FL from a client that needed a few repairs and upgrades after a long time of not using the laptop, so i upgraded the RAM and SSD (laptop didn't have storage in the first place was scrapped and left...
  35. M

    [SOLVED] Valuable parts of old IDE drives

    Which valuable parts can a used functioning IDE/PATA drive have? I discovered a working Toshiba MK2018GAP HDD2164 drive (similar to http://hood.de/auktionsdetails.cfm?auctionID=91399293 , probably the same) at home, and some folks (who disappeared from my view and whom I cannot ask any longer...
  36. Dan_replcntC

    [SOLVED] Entering BIOS in Toshiba Satellite C665-P5010

    I've an old Toshiba Satellite C665-P5010. I don't know its password, so I can't log into it. To recover my system, I've a bootable USB with a software in it. But, I don't know how to enter the BIOS set up of my lap. I want to enter its BIOS set up and change the boot from option to USB. I...
  37. Vickydcl

    [SOLVED] SanDisk Ultra 512gb & Toshiba Satellite

    Hi! I wanted to know if my Toshiba Satellite s855d-s5120 is compatible with a SSD SanDisk Ultra 512gb. I bought this computer in 2013 so its a little bit old. My second question is, in case if it's compatible, what things should I keep in mind when installing it. Thank u.
  38. elric91

    Question Stuttering after change to ssd and clean windows 10 install on a toshiba laptop(from 100 fps to 60 fps)still stuttering

    i have a toshiba laptop with a gt740 m nvidia card and a hd graphics 4600( i now they are old) ,i change the hhd hardrive for a crucial bx 240 gb ssd.before the change i was playing games normally smooth on 80-120 fps,on 1280x720 ,on low textures and everything,Now with the change i am playing...
  39. mijwalsh

    [SOLVED] Will an led screen for a different laptop model work on mine?

    hi i have a Toshiba Portege z30-A-1D6 with a broken screen, and i just ordered a new one off ebay. i just realised that in the description it says its made for a portege z30-C-112, but they both have the same resolution, size and aspect ratio(13,3", 1366x768, 16:9), and im pretty sure the same...
  40. R

    Question Signs of laptop will broke soon

    My 6 yrs toshiba satellite(turning 7 this january) is too old now? What signs and symptoms will happen since my laptop still fast(but im in power saver plan so the cpu is slow to dave battery but balanced is running well) also i still received windows update(until i turned off).