Official x300/x305 Owner's Lounge

On that link, you got the driver, and the inf file to download.

Download both, then unzip the drivers.

And replace the new inf file you downloaded with the one inside:

C:\Users\DC\Downloads\267.05_win7x64\Display.Driver

(depending were o unziped them)

try out.

Played Black Ops, so far, a bit worse, maybe its the game, no clue,
gona try on other games.

 

Get them while you can. Factory service manuals for a whole lot of different laptops.
Laptop Manuals Hub >> Free laptop Service Manuals.

Some companies do not allow the public to have their manuals, so make sure you save the ones you want before the site gets killed.

 

Theyr gone! Hehehe.

 

(Found the answer on previous quote! If I get a qx9300 I will open up my laptop and tell u the original part number that it came with. It should be the same as the quad since it has a 44w cpu.. )

 

Does anyone know if a 120hz 3d capable external 1080p screen can be connected to the qosmio x300 via display port or hdmi? (I read somewhere that it has hdmi 1.2a which is older than the 1.3 used for the 3d screens). Any comments would be nice!

 

If the monitor has dual DVI inputs you can get an hdmi to dual DVI connector and get 100 mhz out of it. I saw a post from a guy that did that so that he could use Nvidia 3D vision and he said it worked.

 

Hm! Thx a lot! I will see what the prices are and I will consider it!

 

Priest-King did you ever OC'd your cpu?

 

I never bothered trying to OC it, I've been happy with the performance of it as is.
Being a quad core, it runs circles around my 2.8 ghz dual core Toshiba G55, so I'm happy with it as is.

 

For me example i have to OC to 3.0ghz to get fluid frame rates on Black Ops.

Since its heavy cpu game... grr...

Before with shadows on, max details and 2x AA i had around 45 frames on
the most action parts.

Now i get over 60 frames on those, and 91 allways on rest.

 

I will install black ops soon and let u know of my fps.. I thought 1st person shooters where more gpu dependent..

 

This one is the oposite, it requires juiced CPU's,
check black ops forums.. hehe, people had issues playing and keep having
using Intel desktop extreme processors @ 4ghz or even i7's.

The game doenst use nearly 50% of the graphic card but uses 100% of the cpus.

 

Guess takovr forgot about the pictures hehe...

Ho well back to my old 1680x1050 for mor a week of work.

 

I would like to see pictures of ur screen laptop. (I mean we have seen how the back looks the fron around keyboard bt u haven't showed us the hinges around the display!)

 

I tried installing this and my qosmio kept bluescreening until I went into safemode and reinstalled the official toshiba ones. Kept coming up with "attempt to restart display driver and recover from timeout failed"

 

Any news about backlit keyboard?

 

You should try completely removing ur previous drivers! Try driversweeper. I personally cleaned the registry by myself bt it takes ages... The drivers are very good and stable after u install them! I am using those drivers right now. Have seen some minor increases in games (like 3-5fps).

 

I've just tried that and had the same issue.

Edit: Just used the nvidia scan tool and it says the latest for my card is actually version 266.58, as I have the 9700M GTS. Could that be the reason?

Edit 2: Installed this version without changing the inf, seems ok so far.

Edit 3: Ok testing with some games (Half Life 2), my temperatures are reaching 95 degrees (GPU, cpu is about 67) before I decide to quit the game before it overheats. My fan is only at a constant speed and will not speed up for extra cooling when it gets so hot? Is there a way of adjusting the fan speed? Surely this should be automatic anyway? However when it is cool enough (40) the fan cuts off automatically.

 

Firstly u are correct not changing the inf. Your gpu is supported by nvidia so u can use the nvidia drivers without any mods. (9800m GTS SLI is a different story). Secondly there is no software available to speed up the fans of toshiba qosmio x300. Toshiba locked them. They are incorporated in the bios so the bios choose when to speed the fan up. Mine has 3 speeds. When is idle the fan is nearly off. The when I start getting some movies on u can hear it and when I play a game (if the sound is muted) then u can hear it out loud. I believe ur responds the same way. If u dont have any warranty and if u have the knowledge open it up and clean the heatsink and add an arctic silver cooling paste. I did that and it lowered my temps. I tested the laptop in various games and the max temp I get is 85c. The highest I got was 104c when using furmark stress test with burning mode selected and 16x antialiasing. Can't really say if its very high since I don't know anyone with my specs who tested it so can't compare. Moreover u can install a 2nd fan in ur x300 if u haven't got one. U need to check if ur motherboard has the 2nd fan port though or else u will need to do some mods on ur own..

 

You probably have dust trapped between the CPU and GPU heatsinks on your laptop. It is a common problem with these laptops. Compressed air often does not remove it unless it is used fanatically on a nearly weekly basis to keep it clean.
Normally you have to open up the laptop to get the trapped dust out.

On most X300/X305's there is only one fan that cools both the CPU and the GPU, so the dust gets trapped between the heatsinks.
If you decide to open it up then you may want to consider adding the second fan yourself. The fans are about 25 bucks on ebay.
You can see if yours has one or two fans by turning it over, and carefully examining the vent openings to see if you can see two fans there.

 

Thanks for the responses guys. When I took it apart to repair it the first time (fan was stuck) I cleaned it down then, but have never actually fully strained the laptop with a game or something. I've been searching for some hacks that some people so (editing registry and acpi and such) and was hoping that maybe there was something available that someone here might no of, but what I'll probably do is try some better paste and if that doesn't work I'm gonna make a small pwm circuit and put it in place of the modem so I can manually adjust the fan speed from the under the sd card flap.

So is the x300 set up so the fan never actually reaches max rpm when in use? (like when it boots up) Otherwise it just doesn't make sense for the fan to stay at the same speed even though the temperatures are reaching 100.

 

Get the good arctic silver thermal compound and apply it as directed, that should drop the temps a few degrees.

 

I know ur using the single 9800m GTX but can u use furmark stress test with burning mode and 16x antialiasing and tell me ur max temp after 1hour? Its a free program and I would like to know if I am the only one getting so high temps in that stress test..

 

Brought my laptop to uni and the elec eng lab technician had a tube of Dow Corning thermal paste so I took the thing apart in the labs (nice large open desk and well lit, complete opposite to my room lol)

Found and removed a layer of dust clogging a section of the fins and removed the old grease, and temperatures are much better. I'll try some proper games later and see how it goes.

Also, stupidly forgot to put the screw in that goes under the lcd hinge, if you open the screen at 90 degrees and look down from a light angle from the top its in line with the gap between F4 and F5. Its all held in place anyway so just gonna leave that until next time.

 

It's been a good day for me Qosmio wise! Not only have I sorted out my X300, I also got my G40 back! New screen, bezel, motherboard, keyboard, keyboard surround. Feels fresh and new and clean again Also reminds me of how much better a full 1080p WUXGA+ dual backlight screen is. A nice firm keyboard and screen hinge feels so good! No dust in between keys, speaker vents, fingerprint sensor ahhhhhhhh. I do miss the full size keyboard though, but the non gloss keys feel so much nicer.
Now the question is, do I sell one? Which one? Should I not sell either of them? OR sell them both and get an X500?!

Does anyone know if the screen in the X300 can be upgraded to a 1080 WUXGA screen? Possibly use a G40 lcd ribbon/cable? Also, the volume on the G40 is so much louder than the X300, it drowns it out.

 

Don't know about the 1080 but u can get up to 1050. My screen has dual backlight and is 1050. I don't see much difference on the 1080 screen... I can't believe that the g40 has better sound than the x300... There must be something wrong!!

 

Get an LED 1440x800 or 1680x1050 like i did, at the moment i cant show you pics, but will do in a day.

Its awasome!

 

Sorry I meant 1080 as in 1080i or 1080p HD. The actual res is 1920 x 1200.
About the volume I thought the exact same thing when I got the X300, but at the time I didn't have the G40 to compare as it was still being repaired. They both have 5 speakers. I think the X300 has slightly more "depth" to the bass but nothing major apart from the obvious max volume difference. Also on the G40 I keep reaching for a num pad and its not there

dseriewow, do you need the cable from the model with the 1680x1050 screen, or can you use the 1440 one and tape the pins? I'm guessing it works the other way round but not sure (as obviously 1680 > 1440)

 

I can't at the moment, my 9800M GTX was dying, so I had to rma it back to the guy I got it off of, and it won't be back till the end of the week at the earliest.
Thank god for warranties.

 

cheesyzombie, check your control panel for sound issue. There is a mode which turns down volume badly, mainly to not damage the speakers I think. But you should be able to figure it out If not let me know.

 

I noticed that u have the 9800m gts sli config. Can you please test the furmark stress test in 1680x1050 16x antialiasing and xtreme burning mode for 30-60min and tell me what is ur max temp so that I know if my gpus are ok? If not I might send them for RMA...

 

I've searched everywhere in the sound setting for that, can't find anything for it! Also, when I use win - x to adjust brightness, when I put the slider at max, its says it at 70%. Why are there so many limits on this laptop?! Fan, volume, brightness. Soon I'm going to find that my timings and clocks speed are also not what they should be.

 

Will the high voltage given by the inverter not damage the LED backlight? Or did the screen come with an LED driver that goes in between inverted and screen?

 

Dude, you did buy a Toshiba, what do you expect? However, I'll boot-up my Qosmio later today and find that setting for you

 

Haha my previous Qosmio's had none of these issues! I prefer them for the sound but they're all ridiculously overweight! Next time I might go for a Vaio and ignore sound quality....

 

Actually the problem with Vaio are their gpus. U can nearly play no games on them! 435 as their best gpu? Come on! How can that be a gaming laptop!!

 

I was having a look at one over the weekend with a quad core i7, 6 gigs of ram, nice widescreen LED, blu ray drive and graphics card with 1gb dedicated (can't remember the exact model, the machine was from their s-line of prodcuts). And to be honest I don't do a lot of PC gaming anymore, so that would be more than enough for me. Plus it cost like £1200. I'll try and find out what gpu it uses (it's my friend's new machine, I was a bit jealous)

 

So I'm thinking about updating my q725 from vista ultimate to windows 7 (probably pro).

I'm just wondering what I will need, to ensure that I will still have all the needed drivers and programs for it. (fn key, touch sensitive buttons, mouse, webcam, etc.)

I am going to want to fully reformat C:\, because the toshiba OS recovery partition really takes up a huge chunk of my 64gb SSD.

You probably get similar questions a lot on this board, but I'm kinda too lazy to look through 374 pages to see

Thanks.

 

It's not that difficult. I did the same with this system. To make it a bit quicker I installed 7 from a pen drive and did a USB boot clean install. From the boot setup you can also delete all the partitions and merge them. All the drivers are available on the Toshiba site. Laptop Driver Downloads:

Also, you could try installing just the OS to the SSD with everything else on a standard drive. Keeping the programs and the OS separate would also reduce the writing operations to the SSD so it lasts longer!

For the fn keys to work you need to make sure you install Toshiba Value Added Package. The IR receiver driver you may have to use a vista one (still x64)

You'll also need Flash Cards Support, which is not in the list for 7 x64, just select a different laptop (like a G50) and download the one for that instead. If you can't find it I can upload for you.

7 is soooo much better than vista on these machines

Edit: Just had a look back through the posts, the flash card utility I used was this one: http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/support/notebooks/nbseries/nb200/pll23a-00c01g/download
For the satellite models but it works fine.

Can also try here for drivers all in one place (don't have to go through the drop down menus)
http://support.toshiba-tie.co.jp/windows7/download/Qosmio_X300_64_au.htm
http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/support/notebooks/qosmio/x300/pqx32a-02w00j/download?os=16 (vista drivers, useful for the IR sensor)

 

Yes, you're right. You have nice sound quality, but that's it right? No support, no quality etc. it is really not worth it.

 

Actually toshiba support is very good! I had an accidental damage with my laptop and it was fixed no questions asked. I had driver issues when windows 7 where released and I had ordered their upgrade kit and they directed me to the exact driver site. Only problem I have with toshiba is that it cannot sell an SLI GAMING computer when it doesn't provide new drivers for it or allow you to install nvidia's drivers. Its like paying all these money for a gaming laptop instead of a less priced thinner vaio laptop and still not be able to game on it due to display drivers being to old and having bugs with games. When I was buying the qosmio x300 I had the chance to buy the alienware m17 which had dual ati gpus. I went with the toshiba because of the good brand name (have a pentium 1 laptop and works perfectly till now, even the screen works!) and because of using dual nvidia gpus. I didn't notice at the time that it offered the 9800m GTS sli instead of the GTX but I don't believe there is much advantage in that. At the time it was the best laptop money could buy. After this I will never go SLI on any laptop not even alienware (although they seem to support their gpu builds).
PS my laptop was never overheating from day 1. So I don't know if it was just luck or if my model never had any overheating problems!

 

Yeah when its still under warranty or toshiba care you get great support. My G40's gpu failed but luckily I had the extended warranty, they picked it up from my house, gave me complete online tracking of incoming parts and sent it back repaired in just over a week. The poor support is when they discontinue the product and then stop updating the drivers for them. But go to the vaio page and you'll find their drivers are a lot more up to date. I pretty much go with toshiba from habit now. But I see any other model range than qosmio as inferior hahaha.

 

Well qosmio is camparable to alienware. At least the x300 was. It had better specs and price than the alienware m17 and even the m17x r1(first versions).Now the x500 is lacking behind. No 480m gtx no sli, 18 inch is way too big. The qosmio has now become an entertainment laptop where u can do some gaming. They should keep the sattellite as their entertainment and qosmio gaming or have 2 models of qosmio 1 gaming 1 entertainment. If I was going to buy a laptop now though I would go with asus or with sager/clevo.

 

I think this is diffrent from country to country, but here in Norway they even don't speak norwegian. However, I still do not like Toshiba, this was my first, and going to be my last Toshiba laptop. I just ask, how many times did we get a BIOS update? I'm running on same version which I did 3 years ago.

 

Well for my version I got an update last year. The thing is why update the bios if there is no problem with it? I was just waiting for them to add overclocking abilities to the extreme processors...

 

Well, you said it, why do not add overclocking to BIOS? Qosmios are sold as gaming laptop.. Qosmios are extremely locked/limited, they can do something with that..

 

Haha maybe someone up there is like Steve Jobs with an excuse like "It will use the battery too quickly and damage the machine"

ITS MY BLOODY MACHINE I DON'T CARE!!!

 

Haha! That's a good one!

 

More likely they blocked the capability so that people won't fry the CPU and then scream it should be covered under warranty since Toshiba gave them the ability to overclock.

 

Hello x300/x305 owners:

I'm browsing your lounge I Must say that judging from some of your sigs this machince was a best in its day!! SLI, 9800GTX.

Can someone explain why Toshiba didn't continue (SLI), top tier GPU in the next verison, X500/x505 series?



SLI (DROOL)