Posts by Crazy Horse

Thanks for the tips. I haven't had to replace the Optical Drive but I have noticed, when I remove a disk, it is extremely warm. I do think the heat played a part in the demise of my original HDD. Thanks for the program link. Also,...

Well wadda ya know. I took her apart and blew out out the dust. Gave her a good wipedown and reassembled her and she is running as cool as when I first bought her. I would still like to know about the possible damage a processer can...

One trick is to go to hardware manager and uninstall both the wireless and the wired NICs. Shutdown and restart with out the wired connection plugged in. Let the 'puter find both NICs. The wirless should work when configured, after that...

I was having problems with the 2GB card on my 5205. I upgraded the BIOS and renistalled the SD software (from Toshiba's website) and it still wouldn't work. I took the card out and cold booted and once everything was up and working I...

Hey folks, I have a Stallite 5205-s703, 2.4GHz, 1GB ram, 80GB HDD and it is realitivly clean. When I turn it on, I can run a 1 hour video with either MediaPlayer or InterVideo DVD before a problem occures. Toward the end of that...

True words on the SD card speed and performance I, naturally, have to prove everything others tell me. I must have learned that from my kids..

Ah ha! I got it to work. After looking for drivers and notes and all kinds of crap I decided it was useless. I uninstalled the drivers but mistakenly left the card in the slot. When it rebooted it found the card and loaded it. Sees all...

It don't work. I know the slot is good because it will read a 16MB card and it will see the 2GB card but can't read it. Does anyone know any tricks that might work? (ie format as 2 - 4 smaller sizes) or if any newer driver would be...

On IDE drives there is an instruction partition that reserves some disk space for drive instructions. That partition is accessabe through the controller card on the drive rather than on the system like in the MFM/RLL days. If you do a...

A boost in RAM from 512 to 1024 is an absolute. Thanks for the info on the R/W access. I will have to look at that more closely. I did find on the Toshiba website some files for the SD card and some obscure comments about booting...