Posts by geocritter

Hey guys, I updated my M55-S3314 bios to the latest offered by Toshiba, the 2.10 version from June. I've noticed something; ever since I did the upgrade, one of my USB ports stays powered as long as the battery is charging (although...

Good morning, everybody, I'm not sure if this is the right place or not, but does anyone have any experience putting FreeBSD on a Toshiba Satellite M55? If so, please pm me...I just need to pick somebody's brain on a couple of...

Correct...well, it pulls thru the bottom and out the side, but same difference. If I could mod my Antec to reverse the fans, I would, but they are an impeller type that won't work that way :-(

Hey folks, Are there any notebook coolers that work well with the Toshibas (i.e., with reversed or reversible fans)? My Antec works ok, but I don't want to do damage to my built-in fan by having it "fight" with the cooler...

Thanks for the info. There might be a way to do an iso bust off of it and slipstream, but we'll see.

Hi ya'll, Got a quick question. Is there any way that anybody knows of to build a windows XP install CD or DVD off of the system restore disk that came with my M55? I realize it's only an image of the factory preinstall, but it...

Hi everybody, I have two questions. I just bought the M55-3314 about 3 wks ago. 1. I'm running Ubuntu on it (dual-booted); I can't figure out all of this ACPI stuff, what should be set to do what, what works, what doesn't. ...