Recent content by phil22

Toshiba, in common with most other laptop manufacturers, have different websites to serve different countries. Make sure you are looking for drivers on the appropriate website for your geographical location: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/worldwide/ Also make sure you specify the full model number...

Faulty motherboard in relation to the internal battery circuit & components.

You can only have it installed on one computer at any one time. If you want to have installed on both your home PC and on your Office PC, you must buy another licence from Microsoft which also gives you a different Product Key to use for the second installation. The only exception to the above...

Hold the start button for 5 seconds and the laptop will switch itself off. Now start it up again.

If you bought it new it's still covered by the Sony worldwide warranty and you shouldn't have to try fixing it yourself, in fact it would be unwise to do so while warranty is still valid. Contact Sony and & tell them it's not working.

The SMBus driver is included in the Chipset driver from Toshiba's website.

Toshiba - bad brand? No way. Their build-quality & reliability is very high, hence the relatively high price.

You can uninstall the Flash Player (Flash Player ActiveX) in Control Panel > Programs & Features (Windows Vista/7) without "breaking" Chrome's built-in version, but doing so will mean you won't be able to run Flash content in Internet Explorer (you'll be prompted to re-install it when you visit...

Lucid Virtu software can switch between GPUs in real time, it still doesn't allow you to run both GPUs at the same time. There's simply no way to do that -- it's one or the other.

For Europe, go here: https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/ America, here: https://support.toshiba.com/repair Cost is approximately £35 or equivalent in your local currency.

Smart Defrag is completely free - unlike PerfectDisk. I would never pay for a defrag tool whilst good, free ones exist.

This is probably what you need: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1281

Go here and select the Windows version currently installed on the laptop: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/uk/en/ukdhs1/Product/inspiron-1545 In the drivers list, expand the "Input" category. Click on "Creative Labs 1.3MP Camera" Click on "Download File". When the file has finished...

Strange as it may seem, a failed hard drive alone does not usually produce any abnormal beeps from the BIOS, all you get is a boot error message on the screen. I suspect it's faulty RAM or a faulty system board.