Toshiba Portege M205-S810 Tablet PC - Answered Questions & Fixed issues
Tshiba Portage Crash
that sounds like a power problem to the mainbaord. I hope you backed up recently. See if you have any clogged fans with dust or bloated capacitors. You may need a new Power supply and mainboard. I would put the hard drive as a secondary in a new machine.
We bought the portege tablet version used and
If the hard drive is still intact, press F8 at boot up and run the restore programme. That will reformat the drive and put it back as it was when shipped. If that is not available, place an OS disc in the DVD drive and boot from there choosing "fresh install" to format the drive and start again.
Hope that helps.
Hi,
1. How to transfer/copy bootable XP files
Requirements
- PC running Windows XP/2000 with a CD/DVD burner.
- USB Flashdrive (Or some way to transfer files to the 3epc once Windows is installed)
- SD Card, a fast SDHC is recommended of at least 2GB.
- XP3eSD Utility
- Hitachi Microdrive Filter Drivers
- Partedmagic (or another bootable CD with disk cloning software)
- Windows XP CD (SP2 Only Tested, may work with others)
- Asus Eee PC (Of course!!)
Instructions:
- Copy all files from your XP Install CD to a folder on your Hard Drive
- Download the XP3eSD utility and run it to create a new install CD capable of installing Windows to boot off the SD card reader
- Boot your 3epc from the CD made in step 2
- Install Windows onto a FAT partition, deleting all the existing partitions
- When windows boots for the first time turn off the swap file, system restore, and the screensaver.
- Then stick your USB thumb drive into the EEE with the Hitachi Microdrive Filter.
- Next copy the files from your thumb drive to the desktop and then properly remove the thumb drive.
- Unzip the microdrive files to a folder on the desktop. And Insert your SDHC Card into the EEE.
- You need to then Hit Start go to run, and type regedit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USBSTOR\
Inside that you should find a directory called something like Disk&Ven_USB2.0&Prod_CardReader_SD0&Rev_0100. Open it. Inside that you should find another directory wich is just a bunch of numbers. Open it. In the right pane you should see a key called "Hardware ID" Right click on it, and select modify. It should list about 7 lines of text. Copy ONLY the first line to the clipboard. Hit cancel, close regedit.
- Open cfadisk.inf in the directory you unzipped the microdrive filter to. Edit the section called [cfadisk_device] so that rather than containing 11 lines, just have one line. The line begins with: %MicroDrive_devdesc% = cfadisk_install,
After the comma, hit ctrl V to paste what you coppied from the registry into the file then save the file.
- Go to Device manager. Under disk drives, you should see SiliconMotion and USB2.0 Card Reader. Right click on the card reader and click update driver. Direct the driver updater window to the Hitachi driver you just edited. It won't detect the driver automatically, you have to specifty that your supplying the disk for the hardware and force it to use the driver.
- Reboot using the Partedmagic CD or USB Flashdrive, Download it here
- Create a FAT32 partition on the SD card, same size as the one on the SSD in your 3epc
- Use 'fdisk -l' to find out the partition names of your SSD and SD.
- Type this command into a prompt: 'dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1' When it finishes (it will take some time) type this command: 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1' (Note: If fdisk reported your SSD and SD as different than sda and sdb respectively, you must change that in the dd commands, if unsure ask in the support forums)
- When it finishes the task is complete, reboot and select to boot from the card reader
- Re-image the SSD of your 3epc with your restore DVD or USB.
When turning it on it goes to toshiba page then
Toshiba page is the BIOS first boot page and should boot from either the DVD ROM or the CD ROM then the hard drive. I would go into the BIOS and set it to boot from the hard drive first it is seeking the ROM drive and stopping. If it does not boot to Windows from the hard drive then you have lost the initial boot file.
Or they are corrupted and you will need to restore the computer back to factory settings. You should have the software that came with your lap top it is not really a problem if you follow these instructions. If you have never done a reboot it is strongly advisable to get someone who has done this before to do it for you. I hope that you saved your important documents and files pictures etc to an external source first.
There is another option to watch the screen when it boots see if you can use F10 or F8 or F1 or F2 to get into safe mode during the boot process. It should tell you which key you can use to get to setup from there you can change the boot device process under boot options to hard drive first boot or it may tell you boot order key information. Whatever it is get there and change it to hard drive first boot. I would highly recommend a repair shop or a friend who knows what they are doing if you do not to handle this problem. John
I am having a toshiba
Hello
you can do one thing
with that your data will be saved.
try a bootable cd of win XP & install os again without formating C: Drive, just overwrite the os instalation in same drive.
maybe after that your problem will be solved
Thanks
Installing Windows XP OS from CD
I have been installing XP on Portege M200 laptops.
I use a usb floppy to install the latest bios update from Toshiba's support site.
After the update the laptop will boot from a USB Cd/DVD drive.
be patient the first part of the up date goes extreamly slowly but it seems to keep working and the install will work.
My Toshiba Satellite Pro A300-GR laptop wont type
You have Number Lock set on your PC - Have a look for a key top right hand side, it will have something like NumLck written on the KEY - you may need to use that Key in combination with the FN key - bottom left of keyboard - there should be a light somewhere on the keyboard which goes on/off as you toggle the NumLck key.
You should see different coloured numbers on the key s*()UIOPJKLM
These are the numbers and symbols that will be displayed when the NumLock is used
Cannot Start
Different PC manufacturers have different BIOS Boot codes.
Read first
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/nonworkingcomponent/ht/beepcodestb.htm
Then read:
http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml
http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/PC/beep.php
Apple:
https://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/wiki/LIS/Apple_Computer_Beep_Codes
http://www.techbase.iofm.net/tips/applemac/tip1.htm
http://www.user-guides.co.uk/download/apple/applebeep/apple-beep-code.html
How do I open up a Toshiba Portege M205-S809?
You can do it in the following methodology
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/ToshibaM205/Portege_M205_disassemble_1.htm
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/ToshibaM205/Portege_M205_disassemble_2.htm
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/ToshibaM205/Portege_M205_disassemble_3.htm
Cannot find drivers for m205-810
in the same place where you download the drivers and chose the model you will see in blue letters "show all models" click that and you will find the model that you need exactly
Random Fatal Stop Error
The
driver irql_not_less_or_equal error can have multiple causes, but most of the time it is a hardware/driver issue.
Check if there are any new drivers available for you computer's hardware devices and update them if so.
Running a memory test also does not harm, could be faulty RAM.
Toshiba laptop - Tablet with Windows XP
Greetings,
If we had a clarity on the OS you are using it would have been easy. Do not try to change the mode. Shut down the comp and then try to restart, as it starts then tap the F8 key on the keyboard. We'll get the option for Safe mode. If still you do not get through.
Not being sure why you want to goto safe mode you can always use a plug an play external CD ROM. In case the issue is not resolved for safe mode you'll need to repair the Windows.
Regards,
TechSup1
Installing windows without DVD
The hard disk is not recognized from USB because of SATA drivers not present on XP setup disk.
That happens because the BIOS uses a SATA controller that is not included in Windows XP install disk.
Usually you can solve the problem going to BIOS settings and changing SATA/RAID settings.
Check your BIOS settings, and disable SATA RAID mode.This is done in different ways depending on the BIOS.
On HP/Compaq computers for example you press F2 on startup to enter BIOS, then disable SATA mode on bios settings.
On other makes the procedure can be slightly different.
Another way to fix the problem, is by creating your own XP setup disk with SATA drivers included, see: Resolving "Setup did not find any hard disk drives" during Windows .
Toshiba Portege Video problem
I found the same problem on one that I bought from a guy for $100. He had been picking it up by the screen and every connector in the screen and the pivot came loose. I was able to tighten every thing back up and now I have a real nice laptop.
Wont sign on to unternet
Call your internet service provider and give them your information. They will walk you through some of it and you can give them control of your computer, if necessary, to complete the connection. You can see every thing they do. If you have personal files somewhere and you see them getting into them, unplug from the internet. I've done this before and NEVER had a problem with snoops.
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