20 Most Recent Toshiba Satellite A215-S7422 Notebook - Page 6 Questions & Answers

If no one else has this issue with your in-home wifi connection, then you should consider trying to reinstall the drivers for your wifi adapter.

You can do this by clicking on:
- Start > Control Panel > Hardware Manager

Find your wifi adapter and right-click on it from the list
Select Uninstall
Reboot your computer (Start > Shut down, restart)

Once your computer finds the adapter again and reinstalls the drivers for you, attempt to connect to your wifi again. If this problem re-occurs and no one else has this issue with other computers, consider purchasing a PMCIA or USB wifi adapter.

If others have the same issue, consider purchasing a new wifi access point.

No, Please press the CTRL+ALT+delete key and when you get the new password prompt " type over there "Admininstrator" and click on ok which is hidden accont in your computer after that you can change the password.

try going into the bios screen and turn off password protection.

is it under the enter key?

Hello

Well, that spesific error mesage is because of a hard drive failure. I notice that this same problem occurs more in portable devices, such as laptops. The thing is, that if the laptop was droped during the days previous of this error, the mechanism will still run but the disc will have so many bad sectors that you will not be abvle to use it anymore.

I would suggest that you try formatting the drive first and see if it works, otherwise get a new drive. Hope this can help you.

Best regards
Andrea

You need to remove the CMOS battery from the motherboard to reset the password.

there is no fix for a hard drive password

Ensure that the proper output (VGA or HDMI) is selected as the source, via the "Settings" tab in Display Properties. Read the projector manual for acceptable resolutions.

You may have a defective CCFL backlight, it may have the following symptom: Screen flashes on and off or displays reddish pink hue. Picture stays on in red and slowly be come normal. Picture flickering with dim display or appear black. Picture flickers on and off. All these symptoms indicate that the LCD backlight lamp (CCFL Lamp) has reached the end of the life and all you need to do is replace the CCFL lamp.
To determine if the video card or the LCD is faulty, connect an external monitor to your laptop and power the monitor up first then the laptop, if you see the normal Windows images then the video card and laptop is OK and the problem is definitely the backlight. Dim image and/or dark display on the laptop's LCD screen indicates a faulty LCD backlight. It could be a faulty inverter that supplies high voltage to the CCFL lamp or it is the CCLF lamp is nearly burnt out, usually the CCFL lamp fails before the inverter.
The inverter can be replaced easily but the CCLF lamp is more time consuming and requires soldering skills.
Check out LCD Parts for service, parts, and DIY info Use this link to their WEB site: -
www.lcdparts.net

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp40501-41000/sp40762.exe

Description: This package contains the driver for the Conexant High-Definition Audio or HD-Audio SmartAudio 221 Chip in the supported notebook models and operating systems. Enhancements: Fixes an issue that may occur with notebooks that shipped in India with FreeDOS installed and later installed a Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System, where the notebook may return a "blue screen" error or stop working when performing audio playback and hard drive data transfer simultaneously.
Please delete the sound card thru the device manager first, then install the driver

To make things much much easier and if you are somewhat computer literate. Download this- http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd It includes many many programs/tools for fixing, recovering and running diagnostics on a hard disk or finding the problem. It also has a small live boot version of Windows XP to make things much easier so that you do not have to use bios to navigate. Feel free to inquire back for more information. Good luck.

Try running the computer on the Battery power and check if the power sustains. If not, then disconnect the power cord and remove the battery and leave it for a few hours then try turning it on.

If the problem exists then the power supply unit is required to be replaced. You may contact service center to get the power supply unit replaced.

Look for the program on your all programs menu and run it

Create an account with yahoo or MSN messenger and its easy to turn it on , just read and follow the instructions

Hi,

To erase CD, you can follow 2 guides :-

http://www.ehow.com/how_4885160_format-cd-rw.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2052281_format-cd-windows-xp-copying.html

Thanks.

pull the battery and let it sit for 10 mins

Reboot the laptop, go to control panel > power options > go through the settings, especially what does the computer do when lid is closed and change the setting to "do nothing", turn off hibernation if it is on. Change other settings to now allow the computer to go to sleep, just let it run until you decide to turn it all the way off. Sleep mode and Hibernation cause more problems than do good.

You will have to go into Windows firewall or your anti-virus firewall settings and open the port for the program. You can assign a port number for a specific program. You may also need to open the port on your router settings if it is blocking the port needed for the software.

Check the power adapter with a multi-meter, the voltage of the power plug that plugs into the power socket on the laptop should be slight higher than the voltage that is printed on the label on the adapter.
If it is faulty, there are replacement power supplies available on the Internet or at your friendly computer shop.
If the adapter is OK then the power socket on the laptop is faulty or this socket has a dry solder joint connection on the motherboard.
You can test this by wriggling the power plug when it is connected to the laptop, if the charge LED flickers and if you hold this plug in a certain position the charge LED stays on without flickering, then the power socket is faulty.
This can be repaired, but requires the laptop to be completely
disassembled. I suggest you get a quote first.

This sounds like the drive has failed. If a dvd rom will not read media (or if dvd-rw it will not write media) this is a clear indication that the drive has failed. You can determine your warranty status and start the process here: https://www.csdsupport.toshiba.com/tais/csd/support/acclaim/acclaim_index.cgi