Good morning all,
I’m hoping someone can assist in a frustrating problem i’ve been trying to solve.
First the Laptop with the issues.
Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300
Memory 192MB
P3
600 or 700 MHZ (can’t remember)
Ok, i received this with windows 98 on it and decided to upgrade the hard drive to a 30gig and install windows XP.
Since the install i have had the following issues.
1)
USB Hub refuses to react with almost everything with one exception that it recognised my USB modem stick
I have tried
usb mouse
usb cd player
usb external hard drive.
I thought this may just be the age of the computer and it having only USB1 meant that any USB device would have to have independent power but that was scuppered when the normal mouse refused to work.
2)
When i slide a pcmcia card into the slot the computer fails to react in anyway.
3)
Floppy drive is refusing to work.
The light comes on but any attemp to access a disk returns the “no identification address found on disk”
Here are the efforts i have tried.
Flashed bios using a CD (a job in itself)
checked Bios settings but there are no references to APCI settings to alter as suggested by a few people.
BIOS
I have tried all sorts of combinations within the bios but nothing seems to make a difference,
I have tried with usb keyboard enabled and disabled
select by OS/autoselect/
Device Manager
There are no visible errors in Device manager and i have used Driver Genuis to check for any new drivers needed all seems fine.
Floppy disk verify file used from Toshiba which i have no idea what it does but i have used it as advised from the Toshiba web site, where they advise using it for xp upgrades. (problems were all there before this so this had no effect.)
Tried formatting floppies slowly as opposed to quick format (no effect) also tried numerous other floppies which work fine on other laptop.
Used USBready file to check USB, everything comes back clean.
PCMCIA card works fine in other computers but not on the Tosh. Tried other modem cards and lan cards, nothing reacts.
Finally, i have reinstalled xp and tried installing it as “Standard PC”
I am going to try to reinstall xp yet again this weekend and will try another option as opposed to “Standard PC”
I am not sure what the first xp install set it up as but i’ll try the APCI enabled one this time but i read somewhere that ths could be risky.
I’m starting to lose confidence with this one and would appreciate anyones advice on things i could try to resolve any of these.
Many thanks and Happy Chrsitmas