20 Most Recent Toshiba Satellite 1005-S157 Notebook Questions & Answers

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If you are talking about wireless networking, all I did was buy a wireless PCMCIA card and install the drivers on the CD or buy a usb network adapter and do the same. I am still running Windows XP Home on my system and with bringing the ram up to 512 MB which is the maximum, it still does what I need it to do.

Down by the clock, there should be an icon for the touch pad. Right click and disable.You will need to have a mouse attached as disabling the touch pad disables *all* parts of it, including the touch buttons down there.If you no longer have the icon for the touchpad down by your clock, there should be an icon for it in Control Panel, OR you go to Mouse in the control panel, and one of the tabs in the mouse control applet will have an option to check or remove the check from, for using the touch pad.If the issue is that it still senses your hands when typing .. you might be able to decrease the sensitivity, and there are apps you can buy (inexpensive and some may be free if supported by the manufacturer or by the touch pad maker) apps that will also disable the touch pad while you are typing, and that re-enable after you stop typing for X seconds. etc..

remove the batteries for 2-3minuty, check if it works,
Enter the BIOS, set the boot order of devices on the 1-HDD, 2-CDROM

You can adjust the the screen brightness by hold down the FN key and hitting F6 or F7. F6 will decrease the brightness and F7 will increase the brightness.

Go here, click on the tab that says "detailed specs" it will prompt you to save the PDF, open the pdf and on the last page you'll see a picture of where the hard drive is.

It's just two screws, unscrew them and slide it out.

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Just boot from the recovery disk and reinstall. If you have files that you must keep then before reinstalling boot normally and copy them on a memory stick.

go to start/all programs/accessories/systems tools / system restore and restore to an earlier date.........go back 2 months at least (when your laptop was working fine) ....the system will shut down & reboot up and prompt you with are sure this okay to do click ok.........

You can download any/all the Windows XP or Vista device drivers for your model laptop from the Toshiba WEB site from their download page. Make sure you enter the model of your laptop so you can get the correct drivers. Please click on this link: -
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp
http://blitware.com/adpages/driverfetch/manufacturer/?manufacturer=Toshiba&gclid=CMOVxNCBx6ACFSgnawodoHNGbA

Does not have ethernet. Need to buy ethernet card and put in the right side of computer.

revome by using screwdriver....relase all screw...do not push with magnet screwdriver,it makes trouble at ur board tomorrow

you need to check a few things... when the fan/heatsink assembly were replaced, did you make sure that the thermal pads on the CPU and GPU are NEW/Good.... Make sure that the Heatsink GPU pad Firmly sits in the chip....

You can test the thermal controller by using a hair dryer or heat gun.... Point it onto the heatsink pipes and see if your fan spins when the pipes get hot, then remove and see if the fans slow after a minute...

You might have faulty RAM or Misseated RAM... Pull The RAM chips and reseat them...
Also Make Sure Your CPU Is Locked Down....

Periodic Shut Downs Can Be Caused By Quite A Few Different Things...

Typically it's due to Thermal Damage
Though Failing RAM or A Failing Hard Drive, Overheated Video/GPU Chip, Or Even Failing CPU can as Well Cause This Issue...

Ram memory is on the underside behide a small opening requiring you to remove 2 screws. You remove the door and they are laying under that.