Posts by stardotstar

Do you guys have the lock switch on the battery set to locked? Well what I noticed with my laptop is that when that switch is on (in locked position) the sound does not come back with I open the lid from hibernation. Maybe try...

hmm odd, I have an A70-TS1, I installed xp pro as soon as I got and updated every driver and the bios from the toshiba website. I am also not using their ati drivers except for the ATI SMBUS driver from their website. I'm using the...

weird I'm not sure what's wrong, my a70 is about 5 months old now. I did however install xp pro as soon as I opened the box

ushapanda that's great! It works perfectly for me, now I don't have to restart the computer after hibernation. I hope everyone will have the same luck

I haven't been able to do this, probably just where I live, well I've started to feel the static charges, but it has to be very dry for me

that's great to hear, I have a toshiba a70-ts1 and I've been happy with it, runs halflife 2 just great. I just have to add another 512mb stick and a 5400rpm drive now and it'll be great

yeah I sometimes get the loud click, didn't realize it until I read this thread. Time to bring it in. My A70 is the p3.0ghz version with 60gb Actually now that I think about this drive is from ibm/hitachi so it might be from their...

I believe you can get this machine in futureshop now

Quote: Originally Posted by mojoRT That might work... it also involves closing and opening the lid several times... which is not the ideal way a laptop monitor should turn itself back on. yeah it isn't ideal,...

I believe there's a way to avoid rebooting or hibernate. What I did was set turnoff monitor to 2mins and everything else to on, and close lid action to none. I waited 2 mins for the screen to turn off, then closed the lid. Wait couple of...