Official x300/x305 Owner's Lounge

I feel with you. They can't still find a keyboard part number. How funny is that?

 

@tunay. All you are waiting for is a part number for the keyboard?? Hell I can get you that. I have the factory service manual for the X300/X305's and I also have the factory parts list.
You can find the manual for it here. Let me know if you need the parts list too.
http://tim.id.au/laptops/

 

He wants his country language keyboard! I don't believe its in the manual! I have the manual as well..

 

Hello guys! I think I figured out the problem. 9800m GTS had problems with their voltage.. I have read other laptops with the same gpu reporting same problem as mine. When running on battery it runs at 0.9v where as on ac at 1,1v. So I underclocked the core clock from 600 to 400 and voila! No problem.. This is not a solution but I believe it is my gpu that is faulty. I will RMA it when I go back home if they do not reply me (toshiba uk I mean).

PS I have overclocked to 605 from 600 and put the high performance mode in manage 3d. Everything seems to run fine under that! Although of overclock the voltage stays at 0.9 which gives less performance and thus the stable system.. Problem is the gpu..

 

I do need X500 turkish keyboard part number with backlit keyboard.

 

Dude, I do not know if this is a good or bad news

 

At least its something!

 

That's ture

BTW, you turned into an alien or what

 

I believe I found the problem but cannot figure out how to fix it. In device manager in system resources there is the nvidia nforce pci system management. When I go to the properties and see the resources I have 2 conflicts which are:
Input/Output Range 3040 - 307F used by:
Motherboard resources
Input/Output Range 2000 - 203F used by:
Motherboard resources

Any ideas?

 

I would take a screen shot of that and include it along with any other written information you may have for Toshiba to look at.
It may be a while before the laptop comes back though, as that would require it to then be sent to the engineering department to look at.

 

Well I am waiting for a reply by them. Windows 7 and Vista have the exact same error. I have not tried the 32bit though..

I got a reply from them asking me which drivers I use (which I only use their drivers from their own website still the problem exist!!) So I just replied to them. Lets see if they find me a solution.

 

Is there a way to change the resources used through windows? Since bios don't have the option!

 

I can post screenshot from my laptop, if that will help you at all. I did not understand a single word of what you try to say in that post

Dude, what about my keyboard?

 

If u go into the device manager then go to system devices and select the nvidia nforce pci system management and then select resources I have the following:
Input/Output Range 3040 - 307F used by:
Motherboard resources
Input/Output Range 2000 - 203F used by:
Motherboard resources
Where as all the other devices are working ok..

 

I have something diffrent, but I think it does not have anything to do with it actually.

 

For the keyboard, try contacting these people, even though their site does not list it yet, they may still have it, or be able to find the part number for you. They specialize in foreign language keyboards.

notebook ,laptop keyboard ,laptop parts ,Sunland electronic Inc.

I know, Turkish is not a foreign language to you.

 

it reports it as No drivers are installed for this device. PCI bus 0, device 3, function 2 . I believe its due to that my freezes but can't find out what driver is missing...

 

toshiba gave me the useless reply that I should install them with the recovery discs and that's y I get the conflict. And they do not support the clean install of windows. LOL! I am never getting near to a toshiba again!

 

I'll try that.

Hahahhahahahahahaha PRICELESS

 

I have found those motherboard resources that make the conflict and get:
on LPC Interface Controller

What is an lpc interface controller?

 

lpc is the Low Pin Count controller. this is where all older isa devices are located. lpt, com, thermal asic (application specific integrated circuits) for thermal monitoring, etc. lpc lowers the pin count of the integral devices and allows them to be able to use pci tranfers and sometimes isa for compatiblity.

Try changing your ACPI settings in the bios. Experiment with them and see how it does.
Use a program to back up your activation files first though, that can alter the hal settings and you will have to use the backed up activation to correct it.

Also, maybe if you uninstall the chipset driver and then install either one from Toshiba's site or the newest one, it may correct the conflict. I would try this first...

This may be why they do not recommend a clean install. It may be that the default drivers built into windows can cause problems with some of the hardware. That would be an issue that would have been corrected in the factory image of the original OS.

 

I installed chipset first and after gpu. Had the problem. Tried installing and reinstalling toshiba drivers and nvidias.. The problems are there.. I will be back home in 3 weeks and will try the toshiba recovery discs. The problem is that there disc is for windows vista. I have their upgrade disc to windows 7 but I believe u have to install it on top of the vista which is not the best solution. Anw I will post back in 3 weeks when I have tested the factory default drivers. If the problem continues then I will send it back for a repair to my country.. I am so not pleased with this. They should not have conflicts with the windows. They should fix their own bios. All other laptops accept any other windows with their own drivers. Why qosmio cannot? Moreover there are no ACPI setting in the bios so there is no go for that.

 

look at this: http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/PQX31U-Win7UpgradeInstructions.pdf

Haha! Its a big problem to upgrade to windows 7.. I will do that in 3 weeks when back home and see if it works.. Windows 7 are worth it. Will test it 1st with vista to see if the problem is resolved with the freezes...

 

I have set affinity to one core and voila no freezes. Same things happends with sc2. Anyone know why would this happen?

 

The freeze reappeared! Btw toshiba does not know that qosmio x300 with sli has an nvidia chipset. They think that it has an intel chipset! And they try to convince me.. Thats very very funny! I did save their e-mail!

 

lol I do hope you understand be better now

 

Well I definitely do! They have my serial number and they cannot figure out what machine I have! It is like they do not know about the nvidia chipset made qosmio x300. Anw we will see if at the end they can fix it...

 

Hi! I'm new here. I would like to ask all you guys that what should i upgrade with my laptop?

Toshiba Qusmio X305-q720 (Original)
Intel Core2 Quad CPU 2.0Ghz 6mb L2 cache
4gb DDR3 PC8500 ram
Hard drive 320 7200Rpm
1 GB Nvidia 9800M GTS
Win Vista Home Premium 64bit

I used it for a year but i think it is slow.
I wonder that Is it worthy if i upgrade my cpu to qx9300 and ram to 8gb?
How much dose it cost?
Please give me your opinion. Thank you.

 

Hey Guys, I recently upgraded my CPU from a P8400 to a X9100.
I'm having problem with the 9400m and nVidia MCP idling at 70C degrees and 91 load!! (and this is with a notebook cooler)

So far it hasnt crashed but im not suprised if it will soon, the problem happed after i removed the stock thermal paste and applied Arctic Silver Caramique to the nVida chip, prior to that it was idling at around 45ish degrees.

I reapplied it 5 times and made sure theres contact, but it seems like theres quite a gap between the heatsink and the nvidia chip since theres no direct screws on it like the cpu.

Any tips to make the heatsink closer to the nvidia die would be great. thanks.

My specs are:
Toshiba Qosmio X300-Q701
Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme (X9100) CPU 3.06Ghz 6mb L2 cache
4gb DDR3 PC8500 ram
2 x 320GB HDD (7200 RPM)
Dual Nvidia 9800M-GTS in SLI
Nforce 730i
1680x1050 Internal Screen Resolution
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Cooler Master Notebook Cooler

 

That is good, I never blame people for nothing. But Toshiba has gone too far now...

Hello and welcome to NBR!
I would be glad to help you out of this. But there is a few things we should talk about first. What are you using your laptop for? If want a real boost, I would go for a SSD drive. That will make your laptop MUCH MUCH more responsive. But, it will not give you more FPS in any games, but maybe shorter loading times. I would then upgrade to 8GB RAM, and turn pagefile and that kind off trash off. I can help you also out with this if you want me to.
Let me know what you deside to do, I'll help you futher.

You know that, Toshiba uses Thermal PADS on their laptops. Did you replace this with Thermal PASTE? That can be a bit of problem. When I reapplied my thermal paste, I did not touch thermalpads which were laying on the GPU.
Give me a bit more information and I'll be happy to help out as well.

But your model has SLI, but as far as I know it is dual GPUs in one board, right? Then it will look almost same as mine.

I've just found this therad, it might be intresting for you, take a look;
http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...ket-upgrades/564730-m17x-r3-thermal-pads.html

 

Thanks Tunaj yes I replaced it with thermal paste, I will get some thermal pads and try it. Thanks!!

 

Give it a try, I've also struggled over that, here is my therad about that;
http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...ket-upgrades/527769-help-should-i-remove.html

I'm glad to help you out, just let me know

 

FYI I didnt touch the video card GPU, I'm referring to the 9400m integrated GPU/chipset die. The CPU heatsink is shared with the chipset die and I did notice the paste on the chipset was rather thick, but thought a thicker paste could replace it

 

However, try a thermal pad and see if that fix your problem

 

!—TUNAY—!
Thank you for your kindness.I use my laptop for playing games so I bought Qusmiox305-q720 because I thought that it's powerful laptop. I would get more FPS in any games. What should i upgrade?

I just took Performance test in DevilMayCry4
Solution 1280*720*32 bit
Directx10

I got only an A.

I used to take performance test on Gateway P7811fx
Core2duo p8400
512 Nvidea 9800mgts at the same solution
and I got an S. (the Best result)

I wonder why Gateway P7811fx did more score on performance test than my laptop x305-q720. That is the reason why would get more FPS.

 

I don't know anything about DevilMayCry4, but a reason can be that, you have a lower clocked CPU. Which will give worse result in this kind of cases, but perform better with better coded application. Go ahead and do a vantage test, I bet you'll be able to get the picture in your head after that.

You got the GDDR3 version of the 9800M GTS, right? As it is 1GB.. That should be better then 512MB version.

If you want to get more FPS, Upgrade to a QX9300. That is the best mobile processor for our laptops, and to be clear it was the best mobile CPU before i's born. I would do a CPU upgrade before GPU because, you do have a good GPU. A good CPU too, but, of course QX9300 would perform better. But if you really want that your laptop should feel more snappier, a SSD is the only way around. My laptop (in signature) bootup, included BIOS post, in 6 seconds. Now, that is a good combination of a Clean OS, good CPU, and good SSD drive.

Feel free to ask if there is anything...

 

In 2 weeks I will be formating the laptop with the recovery discs so that I can know if it will resolve the problem. Moreover for now can anyone tell me what these devices are? ACPI\PNP0C02 (it is installed as motherboard resources and that is what causes my conflicts in the device manager). Although there are conflicts there is no exclamation mark. Can anyone advice? I am out of options..

 

Sorry my friend, I have no clue on this... I'm out of options and ideas as well

 

Thank you •—TUNAY—•
Your answer is cool! You gave me useful information.My laptop (in signature) bootup in 1mins and 10 seconds. It is very slow as compare with you laptop. You laptop is amazing me. My laptop CPU is Q9000. I wander is that Will the performance increase slightly , gradually, or sharply after I go for QX9300?
I'll upgrade to QX9300 for sure, if the performance increase steeply.

Infact, I used to install win7 Ultumate. Honestly, I don't know what driver I should install first and some driver is missing. The graphic card is not smooth as Vista. (Usually, when I install my OS, I always install from recovery disc so it's easy because I don't need to install any drivers. The driver install automatically by using recovery discs.) That maybe a big problem for me. I'll be very happy if you guild me. Thank you again

 

Now, you did touched into a important therad.

A QX9300 will give you a greate speed incrase.
For drivers, You have to install the chipset first, Intel storage driver, and grapich driver after that. Rest isin't that important, but always chipset first! I can find more detalied guide for you, if you are intrested to do a clean install

 

@BrandonPeet, don't waste your money on a GPU upgrade, the performance difference between the 9800M GTS and the 9800M GTX is so small as to not even be close to being worth the price of even a used GTX card off of ebay.

I have what used to be the exact same model as you before I gutted it and upgraded the internal components.

 

That was why I said he (or she) should go for a CPU upgrade first

 

I figured that. I just thought I would warn him away from trying it later. Seriously not worth the $350.00 for a card off of ebay. Nice card to have though if it came with the system.

 

Get an OCZ Vertex2 SSD, I believe that they are currently the fastest SSD drive available.

 

Yep.

There is much 'bad' going on with OCZ. Take a look at the SSD section, I actually at this point don't know if I should go for a OCZ or not...

 

Ofcourse yes! I'm interested in clean install. My laptop I mean our laptop model is like a Ferrari car as compare with other models so I do my best for my laptop. I would like to make it work perfectly. Thank you if you find more detailed to guild me about clean install for our model.

 

+ Priest~King +
Thank you to gave me your opinion. I see you Laptop spec (signature). It's perfect in my opinion. What about the result, Is it extreamly fast? How long does it bootup with win7? I mean are you satisfied with upgrading your laptop? Please, give me infomation about it.

 

!~TUNAY~!

Can you tell me that what is different between

1.Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)... and

2.Intel X25-M SSDSA2MH120G2K5 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD).

I mean I don't know what differ between sata II and sata III. I just saw them on Newegg.com. Can I replace sata III on my laptop? Thank you.

 

Make a therad over here;
Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Flash Storage

Tell your usage, budget and ask which SSD that 'mach' you

I think you'll get more usefull and good answers

 

If u have the intel based chipset I can post u the e-mail that toshiba support send me for insalling drivers. You see I am still trying to make them understand that I have the nvidia chipset which they say that no qosmio x300 has! LOL!