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post #41 of 72
9/6/05 at 12:58am
yp5 is probably best to explain the warranty....

no lcd is assured of being perfect all the time 100% first time out. most companies require you to pay extra if you want to get an assurance of no dead pixels. the issue is that deal pixels can actually occur from shipping the machine, so it could leave the factory with a perfect screen and have a dead pixel when it reaches you....
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post #42 of 72
9/7/05 at 3:04pm
Hello all!

I'm in the position of buying this great lappy (specs: PM 1,73Ghz, 512mb DDR 80GB 5400rpm, Ati Mobility X700 128mb) for a mere 1550$ (+ 3 years warranty for a 100 $)at my local store.

I was just wondering if the laptop is safe to put on one's lap when downclocked to 800Mhz or whatever? And what is the status of the cooler then?

Thank you so very much
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post #43 of 72
9/9/05 at 3:00am
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Yep, going from full power to something like long life(800Mhz) will reduce the fan speed since the voltage is reduced.
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post #44 of 72
9/12/05 at 11:04am
hi,
maybe i overread it, but how hot does the palmrest of the m40 get?
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post #45 of 72
9/12/05 at 2:29pm
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The palm rest will get fairly warm after a while... could be one of those designers flaw with this notebook which is nothing to serious.
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post #46 of 72
9/13/05 at 6:13pm
hm, how warm does it get? does it bother you a lot? and is there anything else that bothers you?

thx for the reply
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post #47 of 72
9/13/05 at 6:30pm
Thread Starter 
from room tempertaure to maybe 5-10 minutes in normal operating conditions you will feel it slowly rise in temperature. When using graphic or cpu intensive programs the fan will kick in but the palm rest will remain fairly warm still. There has been issues with the 2915 wifi cards I used to have troubles with but intel already have relesed drivers fixing most of the issues.
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post #48 of 72
9/14/05 at 3:28pm
ok. hm have you played any games on it yet? whats the response time of the display, I couldn't find it on the toshiba website. or do you notice any ghosting?

thx
blueshirds
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post #49 of 72
9/14/05 at 3:56pm
Hey Everyone,

I bought the M40 JM3 with the 6600 about 2 weeks ago for $1399 CDN. It was the demo model on display so I guess I got lucky (although I was hesitant to purchase the demo model, FutureShop gave me a free inspection to see if everything was as it should be.)

So far im loving it. Great performance. Im definately going to upgrade to 1 gig of ram soon. Im just wondering - Is there any way I can upgrade the nvidia drivers for this card without going through toshiba? Toshibas driver versions are pretty out dated and I dont think im getting as good performance in games (specifically Dungeon Seige 2) as I should be. Its going 19 frames per second sometimes, which it shouldnt becaue A) its an old game engine and B) This is a good video card. Any advice would be helpful, thanks!
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post #50 of 72
9/25/05 at 11:17am
Sure you can, just go to http://www.laptopvideo2go.com

Has anyone noticed gosting while playing FPS games?
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post #51 of 72
9/25/05 at 2:25pm
No, I play CS Source and I dont notice ghosting. FPS is averaging 50-60 on populated servers. And on Dungeon Siege 2, i use the 77.72 drivers and I get 50 FPS average with everything on and at 1280x800 res.
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post #52 of 72
9/28/05 at 4:33am
Nvidia uses a unified drver architecture, so no matter which graphics chipset you have of theirs you can download and use the current Forceware driver on their site. No need to go to the manufacturer's site, and to tell you the truth, I've usually had better luck with Nvidia's reference driver than 3rd party drivers.

The NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) is the foundation for the company’s award-winning ForceWare drivers and delivers forward-and-backward compatibility across all implementations of NVIDIA desktop, workstation, mobile, platform, and multimedia processors. With a single driver, UDA delivers ongoing performance and feature improvements, reduced maintenance time, increased scalability, and a lower total cost of ownership.
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post #53 of 72
9/28/05 at 3:07pm
Has anyone heard about any major issues with the M40 series? Seems like that lemon post shows some major flaws in a few models.
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post #54 of 72
9/28/05 at 3:31pm
when playing games on heavy load it gets really hot on the left where the fan is. I mean hot, good thing im not left handed, but you cannot rest your hand on the left side. not on the palm rest just where the fan exhales. its burning hot air and around that area, but only noticed on heavy 3d gaming, i think this is a nvidia thing, i have a 6600 in mine.
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post #55 of 72
9/28/05 at 9:53pm
Thread Starter 
which major flaw might that be?...
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post #56 of 72
9/29/05 at 1:27am
just on the forums there are threads complaining about certain models, so I was wondering if there were any complaints about the m40. I'm pretty sure I'll be wiping mine clean as soon as I get it, which should fix any issues that most people tend to have with new manufactured PCs, but just wanted to see if any m40's have made their way to tech support frequently.
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post #57 of 72
11/9/05 at 6:28am

M40 problems???

Has anyone had any issues with the new v1.6 bios update? Ever since I updated. I have to manually cycle the wireless switch, when I boot. The funny thing is when I restart the light stays on untill the Toshiba screen is displayed. This is when the bios is read, right?
Ok thats prob one. HOW DO YOU GET THIS DARN EXPRESS MEDIA TO WORK... I installed the express media cd first as advised. I intstalled my own version of XP pro (Also tried the stock XP home, no diff...). And when I try to get a dvd to play, it just hangs. Just a blank screen, nada.
As for the laptop, I've had it for a couple weeks and love it. Jus tneed to figure out a couple issue's. Damn I should've never updated the damn bios...
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post #58 of 72
11/10/05 at 9:49am
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I went through 2 bios updates until it fixed my wireless problem. Could be a draw of luck. 1.20 > 1.30 > 1.60... Don't really know what causes the problem but sounds like its a random occurance between machines. Does your DVD drive happen to disappear from your machine? Sounds like those are the only 2 problems I can think if that I experienced.
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post #59 of 72
11/10/05 at 4:26pm
I had to go through 2 bios updates as well. but for 2 different issues.

the first one was to fix the buzzing sound coming from my left speaker, (dunno which bios update that was)

then it worked perfectly for a couple weeks. (wireless and all)

then i had to go to 1.60 to fix my wireless card (worked! =)

haven't tried playing a dvd on it yet... but i think alot of M40 users experience small issues that are getting fixed by various BIOS updates.
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post #60 of 72
11/11/05 at 2:38pm
No I did not have any troubles with the DVD drive.
Just the Wireless, my problem is I hav ethe latest bios update... Guess I'll have to wait till the next one AND NEVER UPDATE AGAIN...
Oh well... Do any of you know how to go back to a previous bios???

Thanks
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