Official x300/x305 Owner's Lounge

Hi

I just upgrade my vista to ultimate and I noticed that non of my DVD/CD drives work (physical and virtual)

Does any one has any idea about this problem???

"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"

ThX

 

click on the vista orb, and type in device manager.
press enter or click on it.
under dvd/cd rom drives, make sure that there is nothing disabled, uninstalled, or corrupted. right click on the drive, and click properties. does it show the device working properly? if not you may need to enable it or reinstall the drivers.

 

Dude55,

Thanks for the info in this forum.

Trying to locate the jumpers on the mainboard of my x305-q701. Found the CMOS battery, but no jumpers anywhere to be found...that I am aware. I was trying to reset my cmos in order to reset/un-register the bios password that my computer has recently been asking for...???...I read the message from Toshiba, but I'd rather not drive 6 hours to the nearest ASP, (6hrs = round trip x2) and I want to learn about this awesome machine.

The CMOS battery seems to be "stamped" to the pos/neg clamps and will not budge, unless damage occurs, and no one wants to do that.

I have tried all "default/admin" passwords I could find, those did not work. I don't want to do the parallel serial port short, or whatever it's called. I'm not that savvy.

Anyways, your (or anyone with this sort of smarts) help is much appreciated.

bleednate

 

Hey guys, it's been a week or so and i'm still having issues with my games. tried a bunch of solutions but they didnt seem to work.

updated the sound drivers too and checked on my paged pool memory but apparently those are okay as well.

i thought it might have been the dx10 games that are having issues and at least for crysis warhead, adding -dx9 to the end of the shortcut seemed to have helped. did not help for the last remnant though.

neverwinter nights has also begun crashing, but only a few hours into the game. all i can deduce so far is that high end games seem to crash faster.

any ideas please? this problem is killing me.

 

have you tried reinstalling the OS?

do a full system recovery with format and everything. back up your files. if it doesnt work, its def a hardware issue.

 

Regedit->Local_Machine->System->CurrentControlSet->Control->Class->4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318

In this and all its subfolders delete all the keys named Upper/Lower filter, restart and you're done. Nothing more complicated required.

This happens after windows update sometimes too

 

1st, try to pull out your battery for at least 24 hours. If not, some Toshiba bios passwords can be reset using the Key Disk.exe utility, to do this you need a 1.44Mb floppy disk. Format the disk using Windows and then with a hex editor, change the first five bytes of the second sector to 4B 45 59 00 00.

Then put the floppy into your machine and boot it up, you'll be asked for a password, just press Enter. Then when you're asked to set the password, type Y then Enter, this will get you into the bios configuration where you can then type in a new password.

Aside from the KeyDisk, you can build a parallel Loopback plug, this is a simple device that plugs into the parallel port of the machine and removes the password when you boot it up.

To make it you will need a 25 pin DB25 plug, take the plug apart and join these pins using some old cable;
Pins: 1-5-10, 2-11, 3-17, 4-12, 6-16, 7-13, 8-14, 9-15, and 18-25

BD25 Loopback Configuration


Plug it into your parallel port and boot up your machine, the password should be removed as soon as it boots.

Note: This will work on majority of older Toshiba's (1995 – 2002) and obviously only ones that have a parallel port.

CG Security
CG Security have a utility available that claims to work for a range of Toshiba bios passwords as well as the following machines;

* ACER/IBM BIOS
* AMI BIOS
* AMI WinBIOS 2.5
* Award 4.5x/4.6x/6.0
* Compaq (1992)
* Compaq (New version)
* IBM (PS/2, Activa, Thinkpad)
* Packard Bell
* Phoenix 1.00.09.AC0 (1994), a486 1.03, 1.04, 1.10 A03, 4.05 rev 1.02.943, 4.06 rev 1.13.1107
* Phoenix 4 release 6 (User)
* Gateway Solo - Phoenix 4.0 release 6
* Toshiba
* Zenith AMI

The utility also has the ability to restore, backup and erase/kill cmos. There is also some info about generic passwords for Award motherboards.

Check it out at CGI Security

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd

 

1. Reinstall video drivers.
2. Do windows update and install all software, optional and urgent

if those steps dont work, then reinstall vista. you can use the backup utility to create a disc. if reinstalling vista doesnt solve the problem, as stated above, it is a hardware issue.

 

this may help with improving 3dmork06 numbers

the short story a quick hack for amdfusion to work on itel comps

http://www.overclock.net/software-news/448384-toms-hack-run-amd-fusion-utility.html

pushed my score from 7603to 8208 thats an increase of 600 ..still working on getting the cpu overclock to work will post again with res

 

I can't speak for this model but for other models I have removed the CMOS battery, with system battery removed and not connected to A/C, and press and tap the power button several times every 10 seconds for up to 1 minute. Sometimes the motherboard will store energy in the caps for longer and it can take upto an hour and if so just tap power every 1 minute. This should in most cases clear CMOS and require new password and date/time setting from scratch. Leave A/C power and system battery out during this process.

Hope this helps!

 

I noticed Toshiba suggest not to use Blue Tooth and Wi-Fi at the same time. Does this count for two different devices such as Wi-Fi WIMAX for network but Blue-Tooth for wireless mouse? I was asuming they meant not to use both Blue-Tooth and Wi-Fi for the saem router. We have Blue tooth router but it is disabled to use Wi-Fi WIMAX.

 

Guys, btw is there any way to change CPU multiplier on x305 in BIOS preferences?

 

nope no possible way. atm i am trying to get pll support for the x305

 

This is my post from nVidia forum about X305-706:

Okay I installed Force ware 179.67 with modded inf from laptopvideo2go. 9400M wasn’t recognized right, but system working well… more of it: system no more crushes during Fluid Mark (PhysX test). But the result of this test kinda low, 2x9800M GTS showed result less than 1x9600 GT (2770 against 2909). By the way 9800M GTS is on the same chip with 9600 GT and still in SLI mode looses to single one. Complete sux…

Hey-ho Dude55,
Did you tried to use nTune utility? I heard it can clock CPU and RAM bus (don’t know how it sounds right on English ^_^). Btw, if we will buy an Extreme CPU which has opened multiplier we can’t do anything with it because of our BIOS, right?

 

nope, cant adjust anything in the bios even with an extreme cpu, which is a shame.

nvidia system tools can work for you for overclocking due to the nvidia chipset in your q706. for owners of the q705 and q701, that have an intel chipset, it wont work.

 

ok for those that want to know just installed a P9500 cpu took just 30 mins and was quite easy and it pushed my 3d mark 6 up to 8256 from 7603 cheap easy 600 + boost also moved my windows experiance from 5.0 to 5.4

 

lostandconfused how much you spend on the P9500

 

a little less then $200 us

ps when i did the cpu upgrade i used a the best thermal grease i could get and it has droped the cpu core temps by 10 deg

 

now my flash cards wont work. i think someone else had an issue like this. any ideas? i reinstalled the value package, but flash cards still dont work.

 

Dude55 you'll need the "TOSHIBA Flash Cards Support Utility for Windows Vista"! Try this link at Toshiba.

http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/util_flash_cards_28023A.exe

 

I need someone's help badly on reformating my x305 q701. The reason I want to reformat is because I think I have a virus or spyware that can't be detected by mcafee, avira, malwarebytes and superantispyware.

The reason I suspect this is because I visited a "shady" site and ever since, when I play Call of duty 4 or codw@w my pings are always at or above 200, when before it would consistently stay at 100 or below.

I went the antivirus programs route. malwarebytes detected a hijack in the registry data and superantispyware got 3 adware, it's all removed, but the pings are still at 200 and above in call of duty.

I cleaned with ccleaner, I even had a long tech chat with my isp to resolve the issue and my results on speedtest.net is very fast, so it can't be anything then a virus that can't be detected.

I read the manual and have the 4 burnt recovery discs that I made when I purchased my laptop. It's label recovery disc 1, recovery disc2, Toshiba apps & drivers 1/1, and Windows recovery environment (32bit).

I'm scared since I haven't done this before, and don't want to lose functions like wifi, or the flash card functions etc. So before I regret doing it can someone who had experience using the recovery discs and erasing the entire HDD and getting the x305 to function like out of the box but no bloatware walk me through this, and warn me off what I will be missing and how to get back the function. Thanks.

P.S. If there is any other suggestions for my pings other than reformating, I'm all open to options.

 

Hey Jacob,

Make sure you run all those programs in Safe-Mode as well.

You are probably right if you do have a virus or malware. The only real way to get rid of it is to reformat the drive. Anybody that tells you differently is just plain wrong or lying.

Sorry, but is such of today's technology.

Sorry I can't help w/ the specifics of the machine and drivers you are working on.

 

Not necessary wrong or lying RAGEMAN just everything else then reformatting might be longer and harder! But thats what i'll do too if i had a virus like that! Sorry i can't help with the dvd's I have the same machine but i'm not using recovery disk but a recovery partition!

Don't worry about loosing any function i'm sure you have all the drivers and utilities on the recovery disks and if not the support site of toshiba is great and has all the stuff needed!

And jacob808 try to install an antivirus program before connecting to internet!! Good luck!

 

thanks for the response guys. Rage man I do run those antivirus in safemode. Bulgar if I reformatted with the recovery partition on the HDD, would that get rid of the virus? I'm thinking I'd have to use the delete and overwrite HDD option in order to get rid of any trace of a virus, since the partition might also be infected. Am I wrong?

P.S. I've had Mcafee on here since the get go, and now I see why people on forums bash Mcafee seeing that it didn't detect what malwarebytes caught and superantispyware, but I just renewed my subscription in January. Oh well.

 

http://os-fun.blogspot.com/2006/05/modifying-laptop-bios-for-fun-and.html

check that out, perhaps will allow users to change settings in BIOS. if you do try, i am not responsible.

and when i was taking the x305 apart, I noticed that right above the cd/dvd drive, there is a thin strip of plastic in which the top frame is connected to. i unscrewed every screw there is on the bottom and for the keyboard, etc. but it wouldnt come off, i didnt seen any screws blocking it, and in that little area right above the cd drive, it just wouldnt come off. i tried with a little force, but it lead to a slight miniscule crack. so from there i was like forget it. any ideas?

 

also, can everyone try to contact silego until we get an answer about the pll?

http://silego.com/contact.shtml

Request the DataSheet for the SLG8SP556V

 

jacob808 i would say you can try to format only the partitions you were able to use not the hole HDD since the recovery partition is hidden and not accessible from windows this is how I've menage to restore after viruses but it depends how sophisticated is the virus! so hit "F8" when restarting choose "restore your system" and then "Toshiba recovery wizard" no need for the administrative privilege!

 

Does any fellow owner have a clue what the "increased functionality to your system" refers to for the latest bios update 1.9 ? Im unable to find any precise info on the web.

EDIT: Although strangely enough after an hour with the new bios I have noticed that my x64 vista now only uses 30% of the total ram, in comparison to ~45% before and thats definately a good thing Actually the entire OS feels much faster, but I might be imagining stuff xD

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114633

seems like toshiba nailed it. 2.53ghz qx9300 dual 9800gts's.

the only hardware problem is the measly, yes, measly 1680x1050 display.
but with a beast like this, and no overclocking options? tisc tisc toshiba.

 

This is all i could really find I hope this 1.90 bios supports a QX9300 cause i'm thinking of updating my CPU just to have a Quad from T9550 As the T9550 came around when the QX9300 was released I'm really hoping it will be a clean swap with bios support.

Description
Change History

Version 1.90 - 2009-01-26
Added: NB9E-GT1 VBIOS (Video BIOS).
Version 1.80 - 2009-01-07
Modified: CPU type command to EC for Tj105.
Updated the JMB380 BIOS porting guide to V1.9 for 1394 FIFO.
Modified: Touchpad HWID issue - Synaptics touchpad driver can be installed by Windows Update.
Version 1.70 - 2008-11-11
Updated the nVIDIA NB9E-GS Video BIOS (VBIOS).
Modified CPU thermal selection.
Fixed: Can not set the user password with the HW Utility.
Updated the nVIDIA NB9P-GS VBIOS.
Made a modification to clear CMOS data when CMOS data is lost, as a workaround for a BIOS password auto set issue.
Implemented Tj100 fan parameters.
Fixed: System will be woken up by an air conditioner remote controller.
Version 1.40 - 2008-10-10
Corrected: In the following situation, the Wireless Antenna LED was OFF when it should have been ON: Wireless Antenna ON/OFF switch is ON, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are OFF (i.e. disabled in Windows Device Manager).
Version 1.30 - 2008-08-18
Added an HDMI/DP option item in the BIOS setup menu.
Added an EEPROM solution for CIR detection.
Updated the NVIDIA VBIOS.
Updated the Merom CPU uCode to A3.
Modified an LED setting after the BIOS is flashed.
Made a change so the UWB GPIO pin is always enabled and can only be controlled by the Wireless LAN On/Off switch.
Implemented an EEPROM read function to detect UWB hardware.
Made a change so the WLAN LED can be turned on if UWB hardware is detected.
Version 1.20 - 2008-07-11
Added a Winphlash64 feature for BIOS updates.
Disabled JMB38x ASPM to improve 1394 performance.
Added a BIOS function to support CIR device detection.
Reduced ACPI command response time to fix an ACPI event error.
Added a sensor button workaround to prevent MCE from launching intermittently when the on/off button is pressed.
Version 1.00 - 2008-07-07
First production BIOS for this model.

 

Thanks for that bar-code, i guess the addition of another video bios hints at new nvidia cards which will be available for the laptop.

What I really wanted to see though is added bios support for the extreme processors, its a shame they cannot be utilised to the fullest when there is suficient thermal budget.

 

Hi x300/5 users!
I have a problem with my qosmio, the last bios update created a bios password on my comupter... Toshiba says my computer must to service! But I don't want to send it inn becouse I use it very much...
What is this? A mony-trap or something ??? They said this not was "in" Warranty range!

I can boot from system and enter OS, but I want to enter my bios too
Is it easy to remove the battery ???
I have seen under my leptop there is only ram and harddisk "covers" must I open hole thing ???
Thanks....

 

This Toshiba bios password removal process is meant for use on Toshiba laptops that you own or have had permission from the rightful owner to remove the password. If any of these processes are done incorrectly it may result in complete system failure or permanent system damage (you've been warned!).


Some Toshiba bios passwords can be reset using the Key Disk.exe utility, to do this you need a 1.44Mb floppy disk. Format the disk using Windows and then with a hex editor, change the first five bytes of the second sector to 4B 45 59 00 00.

Then put the floppy into your machine and boot it up, you'll be asked for a password, just press Enter. Then when you're asked to set the password, type Y then Enter, this will get you into the bios configuration where you can then type in a new password.

Aside from the KeyDisk, you can build a parallel Loopback plug, this is a simple device that plugs into the parallel port of the machine and removes the password when you boot it up.

To make it you will need a 25 pin DB25 plug, take the plug apart and join these pins using some old cable;
Pins: 1-5-10, 2-11, 3-17, 4-12, 6-16, 7-13, 8-14, 9-15, and 18-25

BD25 Loopback Configuration


Plug it into your parallel port and boot up your machine, the password should be removed as soon as it boots.

Note: This will work on majority of older Toshiba's (1995 – 2002) and obviously only ones that have a parallel port.

CG Security
CG Security have a utility available that claims to work for a range of Toshiba bios passwords as well as the following machines;

* ACER/IBM BIOS
* AMI BIOS
* AMI WinBIOS 2.5
* Award 4.5x/4.6x/6.0
* Compaq (1992)
* Compaq (New version)
* IBM (PS/2, Activa, Thinkpad)
* Packard Bell
* Phoenix 1.00.09.AC0 (1994), a486 1.03, 1.04, 1.10 A03, 4.05 rev 1.02.943, 4.06 rev 1.13.1107
* Phoenix 4 release 6 (User)
* Gateway Solo - Phoenix 4.0 release 6
* Toshiba
* Zenith AMI

The utility also has the ability to restore, backup and erase/kill cmos. There is also some info about generic passwords for Award motherboards.

Check it out at CGI Security

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd

otherwise, remove the battery, and keep it out for 24 hours and press the power button with the battery still out for a couple times.

 

Anybody running a T9800 over the T9600 to know if much of an improvement? is the T9600 energy usae musch difference from the P9500 battery wise, I could care less bout on wall unless heat is a big issue too?

 

If people here would request the PLL Datasheet from silego, then we could get setfsb to add pll support and overclocking, which would make the x9100 a better candidate over the t9800.

 

OK, so I must remove the battery then

EDIT:
Dude I found this album
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v720/christopherquinalty/Qosmio X305-Q701 disassembly/

Do we see battery here ???

[Don't know who's album this is )

 

If for quick clearing of CMOS to try to reset , YES, removing both system battery and internal CMOS batter button cell battery, you shold be good to go.

 

How many batters is that on this thing

 

I have filled in the request form - hopefully they will release the info, although to be fair the only reason you'd want to overclock your x9100 is for bragging rights.

In terms of gaming, which i consider much more important, its actually better to undervolt that bad boy and use the saved C-s to overclock the gpu.

 

thanks dozzen. i have done it several times but to no avail.

 

so i opened up my ram slot and look what i found!!!!!

 

trying to upload

 

i cant upload for some reason
ohwell ....

 

ok so now im all like What did u find in there beasties, extra ram, a gloden ticket plz dont leave me hanging here ...

 

i have an update for disassembling the x305. here are the following bits of info:

1. the chassis is very delicate and prone to cracking. I already had 2 cracks, one by the cd drive area, the other under the screen.
2. the heatsink doesnt appear to be able to be removed from the 9700m gts. it has thermal pads on everything, and just cannot be removed even if you unscrew the 3 suspension screws.
3. the cpu is on the underside of the board, right by the ram. it is very difficult to unscrew the board and take it out to replace anything.
4. the dc in jack doesnt want to come out on mine.

overall i can say this thing is nothing like a clevo d901c, where it is extremely easy to upgrade and clean dust off, and apply paste, etc.

the x305 has serious heating issues under heavy load. without the nzxt cryo, on a flat hard, and cold granite table with ambient temp of 70 farenheit, the gpu managed to get to 190 farenheit and the cpu 155 farenheit.

toshiba is ridiculous for this being so difficult to upgrade, and not supplying any upgrade parts, or any overclocking support. this may be the first and the LAST toshiba i ever buy.

 

yep, i agree with you dude55 , and also the -toshiba-type mxm3 -module-

why would they do that,if only i knew then,what i know now ....

anyways, i checked my ram modules a few days ago,and its 1 x samsung 2gig hcf7 module ( 1.85 ns , good for a 1333mhz overclock) and a hynix module 1 x 1gig
3 gigs total

so i upgraded my ram , i purchased a 2nd 2 gig module and i was luky enough to get micron d9 IC's

i was shocked to say the least, never thought to ever find micron d9 on a sodimm . so now im gna get another 2gig module of the micron d9 stuff.

since upgrading to 4 gigs ram: still using vista 32 bit:
no noticable performance gains in any apps im using,no gains in games,boot up time definately a little faster though for some reason.

so, it mite not be a performance boost,but atleast im running micron d9 jnm ...(you guys can just google it)

wish i could get hold of a mobile cpu with a 1333/1600 fsb now

 

Uhhmm .. The Maximum RAM Qosmio can manage is 4 Giga ? So i cant upgrade it to 6 or even eight gigabyte ?

 

for now its 4gb, but perhaps 8gb can be supported. however since there are only 2 dimms, you would need 2 4gb dimms or for 6gb 2 3gb dimms, which can be hard to find and expensive.

and lampredi, a 1333mhz fsb cpu may not be supported on the toshiba if it is released.

but go to tweakers.fr and download memset.

see how low your timings can go, for me 7-6-6-15 is the lowest, but 7-6-6-16 is more stable.

 

Read:
- Stay with the P series, ex. P8600, P9500 because of the 25W Power Consumption compared to 35W, or go for an X9100 or the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000, Q9200, or QX9300. However, there may be problems with the 2 chips at the top of CPU and the heatsink fitting. Regardless, there are X300s/x305's that have these chips.

I have the X300-126 (gamer)
http://www.materiel.net/ctl/PC_Portables/47357-Qosmio_X300_126_DESTOCKAGE.html

Would like todo a CPU upgrade, QX9300 would be my first choise, but as discussed in an other forum ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4734625#post4734625)their might be a problem upgrading it;
Can anyone answer it? can it be done?

Read around 25 pages but couldn't find it..

 

Will let you know in about a week or so just ordered a qx9300 to replace my t9550. After reading Dude55 reply im really scared now to do the upgrade.
BTW here in OZ we only have 2 models released called x300's ones with the qx9300 and sli cards the other is the lower spec t9550 with 9800m gtx , so im just hoping it's the same as the disessemble guide from here for the x305.

Strange thing is tho Oz x300 models have two different bios's the upper spec is using a 1.50bios while the lower spec is up to 1.90 bios not sure if this will effect anything.

P.S screen attached hoping to improve my 3dmark06 score with a qx9300
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/812/capturewiz011.jpg