Thread: toshiba laptop HELP

Just a though, in your BIOS does it allow you to change the fsb/clock multiplier, if so just change the setting till it reflects the actual mhz of your machine.

See this wiki for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_multiplier

WARNING: IF MULTIPLIER PLACED HIGHER THAN THE FACTORY SETTINGS, IT IS THEN CLASSED AS OVERCLOCKING AND VOIDS MOST WARRANTIES, THERE IS ALSO A DANGER OF DESTROYING PROCESSOR AND POSSIBLE FIRE HAZARD TOO AS LAPTOPS DON'T HAVE THE COOLING CAPABILITY TO OVERCLOCK NORMALLY!!!

You have been warned....but good luck

Cheers

Johnno

i owe you a beer, you twigged my mates memory to go back into BIOS and have another look, the battery settings had the cpu running at low or slow, changed it back to high and all good

you would not beleive the grief this has given me....now i can play dvd's for the kids again

Originally Posted by weeds

i owe you a beer, you twigged my mates memory to go back into BIOS and have another look, the battery settings had the cpu running at low or slow, changed it back to high and all good

you would not beleive the grief this has given me....now i can play dvd's for the kids again

LOL, the things you have to do to keep the kids happy !

Toshiba, never ever again. Nothing but problems, on 3rd hard drive, battery has not held charge since 12 months old, screen has gone blank ($1200 to replace), invertor replaced twice. Biggest POS out Satellite A10.

The second-last word is the key. Toshiba have business (good) and consumer (very ordinary) lines. Toshiba Tecra or Portege are good quality as are IBM (now Lenovo). Second hand info - from my computer tech brother. I have a Tecra - had a mainboard go bung and the battery is cactus after 2 years (but no battery survives being left in a laptop). Mainboard replaced under warranty. I've got a ten year old Toshiba still with original hard drive, runs fine - pity it's just B&W!