20 Most Recent Toshiba QOSMIO E15-AV101 Notebook Questions & Answers

Okay in some case windows 7 does not pick up the network drivers so you will need to download and install the network drivers for your laptop from another computer and then copy those files to a pen drive and then connect it to your laptop and install it, however I do see that your laptop driver support page does not support other OS other than windows XP32. Please refer the link below and download both the drivers and install it, that is the driver for windows XP it should probably get installed and work for windows 7. http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome?freeText=804518&osId=50

Unless you have a installation, Win XP?, CD/CD's or Factory Recovery CD/CD's, it will not Restore on a blank HDD. If I understand your question correctly. You must do a FULL installation.

hard reset is done by shutting down the computer. Then remove the cables and battery to it, and then press and hold power button for 8 secs. Reinsert the cables and battery into it, then turn it back on..

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Here's the procedure:

1. Shutdown the laptop and remove the AC adapter. Disconnect any devices, such as a printer or external DVD-ROM or drive, that are attached to the laptop
2. Remove the laptop battery. Turn the laptop upside down, slide the battery release latch and then pull the battery out of the bay.
3. Unscrew the hard drive cover. Grab the hard drive tab and shift the hard drive to the left to unplug it. Lift the hard drive out of the bay.
4. Unscrew and remove the PCI memory cover, the optical drive cover, and switch cover.
5. Unscrew the two screws that hold the keyboard to the base, these are located in the middle of the rear panel. Flip the laptop over so it is right side up, open and remove the keyboard by using the keyboard release switches located above the keyboard. Next, unplug the Toshiba Qosmio E15-AV101 Fan cable.
6. Close the laptop and turn it over so it is bottom up. Unscrew the display assembly screws located under the laptop screen hinges. Turn the laptop over so it is right side up. Open the laptop and unplug the display assembly cable and disconnect the wireless antenna from the display assembly. Unscrew the display assembly from the laptop base and remove.
7. Unplug the mouse pad cable. Turn the laptop over so the bottom side is up and unscrew the base screws which are located along all four sides of the laptop base. Gently remove the base of the laptop.
8. Turn the laptop over so it is right side up. Unplug the fan cable from the circuit board. Unscrew the screws holding the Toshiba Qosmio E15-AV101 CPU fan assembly to the laptop. Lift the fan assembly out of the laptop.
9. Insert the new Toshiba Qosmio E15-AV101 CPU fan assembly into the lap top. Screw the assembly unit to the lap top and plug the Toshiba Qosmio E15-AV101 CPU cooling fan cable into the circuit board.
10. Reassemble the laptop by repeating the previous steps in reverse order.

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The blinking hyphen means it cant find an Operating System. If this unit were in warranty I would ask for a new one. If not then replace the motherboard.

Hello,

the problem is from your Ethernet controller, the drivers is not installed and that's why your computer cannot connect to the internet.

I am sure there are still some other components on your computer its drivers has not been installed.

Once you install any windows on your computer, you need to make sure you have the necessary driver, such as; Sound, VGA, Ethernet controller, etc.

To view and know the devices on your computer that needs drivers such as your Ethernet Controller, go to control panel, click system, look by the left of the window page and you will see device manager. Click the device manager and you will see the devices that their drivers need to be installed. The uninstalled devices will have a yellow exclamation mark in front them.

You can get the drivers from toshiba.com, look by the left side of the page and press U.S service & support, then under Customer support, press Laptop computers. Once the page opens, press Download, then select your laptop model and proceed for the download.

Make sure what ever you download is under win7 category.

Good luck.

See the below video for guidance on how to take apart your laptop.

Sound like you have a stuck key and the bip noise is the keyboard buffer pverloading.
If you can't unstick this key, you need a new keyboard.

thats weird. try restoring the computer, st the splash startup screen, press F11 then release it. follow onscreen instructions to restore the computer to factory setup

Go here: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT And download the drive fitness test, burn it to a .ISO bootable CD, and boot from the disc. Run a FULL SCAN and it will tell you if the HDD is bad, which is highly likely.

It means that you do not have a hard drive that can be booted to start the OS, or that your had drive is defective, or the boot sector of the hard drive is missing or corrupted.

You just got wireless turned on ? Does this mean you just added a wireless router to your existing wired network ? You may need to turn off the DCHP server in the wireless Router and give it a unique ip address eg if wired router is 192.168.0.1 then make wireless router 192.168.0.2 with gateway ip set as 192.168.0.1 then make wired dhcp router not lease out 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.20 make subnet mask the same also for each router.

pls remove the key board ribbon cable and re seat again

Did you solve the problem? I have the same here, in Brazil.