20 Most Recent Toshiba Satellite A105 Notebook - Page 9 Questions & Answers

Most likely the CMOS (Bios battery), which is a small silver coin shaped battery on the motherboard needs changing. This maintains the correct time when the laptop is switched off. They last for up to 3 years then need replacing. (example in picture)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CMOS-RTC-Battery-Toshiba-Satellite-A105-Series-/270751984156?pt=US_Batteries&hash=item3f0a136a1c

Be careful in changing the battery, If you have not done this before, refer to a computer repair shop.

One option available to you is to reinstall the drivers for the track pad, another option is to get a technician to look at the actual buttons on this notebook as the buttons may have failed.
First try the drivers though, they can be found on the CD disk that came with your notebook or on the manufactures website, Toshiba in your case.

Take care!
damnor01

Hello,
it happens sometimes you can either try to:

• Press a key and wait for a response
• Look and see if your laptop has like a hibernation or standby key on the keyboard
• Have a look and see if you have a fn key and look to see if there is a power management button
• remove the batterys and the mains hold down the power button for 30 seconds and wait a couple of minutes and connect everything back up again

However it could be something to do with your BIOS, go into your BIOS and see if there is a power management option in BIOS andplay about in power management sometimes there is a option to enable APM advanced power management if that is enabled disable it.

Base from the description of your problem this is a issue with the lens of your drive that it wont be able to start reading DVD.

What you can try here is a simple remedy for this problem is to run a lens cleaner to your drive, but this is most likely that your drive needs a hardware repair already due this this lens problem.

Please try this. Download and install the following drivers.

http://download2us.softpedia.com/dl/5cbb29218f942d5ebc317caad0c7df45/4e16cbff/300017954/drivers/others/bt_40036t.exe

Does an external keyboard work? If so, then most likely the keyboard is broken and needs to be replaced.

try "System restored computer", sometimes its
Go to safe mode-and System restored computer.Thx

First, press and hold on/off button for about 30 seconds. If the on/off button fails, there is usually a reset switch. You can access it with a tip of the pen or a paperclip, through a little hole marked RESET. Alternatively, take the batteries out for several seconds.

If you have tested with another adapter with the same results, flashing the BIOS can resolve a power issue.

From the Toshiba website:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/outFrm.jsp?ofId=AskIris&searchString=a105+bios&x=11&y=8

Be sure to look at the ReadMe file.

Hope this helps.

here you go
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buttom Fn + nume pad or lock

With strong antivirus scan your laptop

Hi
When you start the computer, frequently press F8, you get a list of options like: safe mode, and others.
Choose Safe mode, wait until the desktop appears, it will ask you ( yes or no, choose: no ) ,
Then go to control panel, and uninstall Avast.
Restart, and try to install it again.

Please, Tell us your results.
Good Luck

The LCS is damaged. Send it of to get reparied

try using system restore and go back to a restore point before your grand child got to the computer. i am guessing that you have XP for an operating system.
go to start..... all programs ..........accessories ........... system tools ............ system restore......... click and follow the directions to take it back to an earlier date.

try this and let us know if it works or not.

It would seem to me that you should select (highlight by left click on) the pictures you want to burn to the CD and then right click on the pictures. When the right click menu pops up, left click on Copy. Then, right click on the icon for the CD drive and click Paste, which would transfer the picture to the CD.

Regards,

Selk

Hello

Disable firewall settings to check if it doesn't block connection.

1) Update the WLan driver. In most cases this solves connections issues.
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/wlan/

2) Go to device manger -> WLan card -> Properties -> Advanced tab and check if the WLan modus 802.11 B/G or N has been set to the same Wlan modules supported by router!

3) Disable the WLan encryption and password on the router and check if you could connect to the router without any security settings. Do this only for testing purposes. If it connects properly, enable the encryption password and try again.

4) Disable WLan power saving! This can be done in Win Power Management. If that doesn't work, perform a system restore, set your computer to how it was the last time you were on the internet.

Press alt ctl delte twice. Try logging in as administrator with no password.

That is the bios password. You should ask the owner of the laptop what the password is.