20 Most Recent Toshiba Satellite Pro M15-S405 Notebook - Page 4 Questions & Answers

Hi there.
The best thing to do is to uninstall the touchpad drivers, you can do this by going to the control panel look for add remove programs or programs and features, in that window look in the list for "synaptics" and uninstall it.
That should clear up the problem, if you cannot find synaptics in the add remove programs please post back.

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this could be one of a few things,

in my opinion it could be:
1)you need a registry cleaner
2)you may need to check for spyware (spybots good n free)
3)you may need to check for viruses (try avg free if u have none)

it usually boils down to one of those in a windows world.

Go to www.modemsite.com and look under "troubleshooting" for answers and to get drivers.

It should mean about the Video Card, for many games (and of course the good ones) you need a good video (graphic) card to run them, because a normal computer has not enough capasity to run them.
You can buy a video graphics card, but as far as I know there is no such thing for laptops, only for desktop
That means you won't be able to play the hottest games.
sorry

This most likely means that your lcd doesn't support the resolution that your laptop is displaying.

The cd-rom drive on most toshiba laptops has one screw on the bottom or on the top under the keyboard that you simply remove and you can just pull the cd-rom drive out and put another one in. Below is a website that has dismantling instructions.

http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Toshiba-Satellite-Pro-M10/replace-laptop-motherboard.htm

First thing make sure you check the manual volume control just on the inboard side of the shell. It's sort of buried below the surface of the shell.
Drivers should be pretty well the same for xp home or pro I think.

Press the Fn and F9 keys, that should turn it back on. Let us know if that solve your issue and please dont' forget to rate this posting.

Here the Driver Download page for Satellite Pro L20.

I believe this driver should work. It's for a Packard Bell laptop, but it has the same sound card.

http://support.packardbell.com/uk/item/index.php?i=7045150000&ppn=PB32S00101

if you power up the computer and get no video remove the memory and reinstall making sure you have it seated right. if still not working then you have a bad motherboard this is fairly common problem with toshiba laptops they have problems with the ram sockets going bad and it means replacing the motherboard.I hate to tell you this but the two brand of laptop i stay away from as much as possible is toshiba and sony.
sony being the worst of the dead motherboards and toshiba coming in pretty close behind.
wish i could tell you something better but i see alot of this.look on ebay you may be able to find a replacment board there cheaper then at toshiba.
I may have something around the shop to i have a couple of toshiba with busted screens,i check model number to see what they are tomorrow

Hi there
It depends on the TV really, if the TV has a VGA port on the back then what you will need is a male to male VGA cable, you will not get any audio however so you will need R/L phone to mini stereo jack lead also.

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I saw this on another post, so is it replacable or not? Below is the other post. What effort is it to make a toshiba satellite pro m15 s405 video card replacement? Thanks // '); }// ]]> I Can Solve This! I have the same problem Post a new problem
I know someone who can solve this problem X This Problem has been added to the Share Your Expertise Page under "My Work Queue". OK 1 Other User Has The Same Problem Posted by Guest on Dec 18, 2008 strange, but this is a card - not just integrated into the mb. I have it in my hand. i doubt I'll be able to find a replacement however. Best Solution posted on Jun 01, 2008
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The video card is replaceable and is relatively simple for those comfortable with laptop disassembly.
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Solution #2 posted on May 22, 2008
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Probably impossible. Most laptop graphics chips are soldered directly to the motherboard requiring a new motherboard if one dies, and very few are actual "cards." That being said, it looks like your's is a nVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go which might be a card. I'll do some research and find out.
Comment posted on May 22, 2008 Well if you look at picture for Step 25 here:
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Toshiba-Satellite-Pro-M10/replace-laptop-motherboard-3.htm

It does say that it's the "video board." It looks like it's replaceable, so if you can find a replacement card then it should be possible. Unless you are very comfortable following the guide starting at:
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Toshiba-Satellite-Pro-M10/replace-laptop-motherboard.htm

I wouldn't recommend it.

please note that the link i gave you is for XP..

if you need for other OS...please refer here

select your prefered OS then in Category choose NETWORK and select Dell Driver - True Mobile Mini - PCI CARD driver.

let us know.

restart and get into bios setup
then on bios page set to default press f10 save and exit
then with recovery in drive restart press f7 and choose option boot from cd
are you sure you are using a recovery cd that came with your system and not a driver cd for the mother board
if you are still having a problem let me know and let me know any error messages
don;t forget to rate me
thanx

This usually happens when the laptop is not able to take more then a certain amount of memory, as the system BIOS does not support higher. By saying ACPI as the blue screen, that tells me that the power subsystem does not 'like' having more then 512MB of RAM. I am 95% sure this is your BIOS because of that information. Check and see if you can find a BIOS upgrade for your computer model, and that might fix the issue, if an update is available.

Have you tried starting in safe mode
Continuosly pressing the f8 key while restarting.
If you get into safe mode you should be able to uninstall your antivirus.
Let me know if this helps

Plug cable between TV and Laptop video output and press Fn+F5 to swap display to TV;
If it is not working, check if the TV setting on from BIOS.
If it still no luck you better change another cable to try.

good luck.

Probably impossible. Most laptop graphics chips are soldered directly to the motherboard requiring a new motherboard if one dies, and very few are actual "cards." That being said, it looks like your's is a nVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go which might be a card. I'll do some research and find out.

If you find out can you email me as well? [email protected]

i took my laptop to circuit city for some issues and it was returned with no sound working. They, of course, said they didn't do anything. Works great other than no sound.