Bluetooth and Satellite M40

I got a question:
Does my Satellite M40-265 has got the oppertunity for communicating with other Bluetooth-maschines?
If not, how can I do that? How much would it be to handle this?
Nick

Hi
Unfortunately, on this unit is no Bluetooth available.
In this case you can use a USB Bluetooth adapter or a Bluetooth PCMCIA Card.
For example:
http://www.everythingusb.com/hardware/index/Belkin_Bluetooth_USB_Adapter.htm
Bye

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Hello Iva
A friend of mine has Satellite M40 and I know that this unit is delivered without BT module. If the unit has BT module you will find BT label on the bottom side of your notebook.
To establish BT connection with his mobile phone he uses BT USB stick.
By the way: does Iva comes from Zagreb, Croatia?
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I've the new TOSHIBA Satellite M40 laptop, but I can't tell where the IR is although the softwar is already installed.
Also when I turn on to wireless mode, when I start the wireless file transfer USING Bluetooth a message appears saying:"blutooth is not ready" !!!
Can you help me please..?

Hello
Please check this topic http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=4873 .
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Hi,
I just installed Win7 on my Toshiba Satellite M40-129. This was a really tough one... Windows refused to finish installation until I deleted pcmcia.sys in the windows system folder.
Now I have the problem that neither my pcmcia cardbus is working nor my SD-card reader. As soon as I ask Win7 to update PCMCIA driver, the computer doesnt start anymore till I again delete pcmcia.sys.
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Hello,
I have windows 7 in my satellite m40-285 (PEntiun M 1.86GHz, 2GB RAM, Ati X300) and it runs smoothly.
The problem with pcmcia.sys is the same with vista you can find in google how to rename it.
The most difficoult was to make the graphic card work well with AERO, I had to install the diver for a Dell and update throw windows.
Good luck!
I don't think the M40 series are too old if you have enough memory and a good CPU and GPU

Satellite M40-256 - error while booting via CD

Hello,
a well-known friend owns Satellite M40-256 which has Windows problem (error while updating/handling by her children).
She doesn't own an external Toshiba FDD or ODD. Also this portable has no built-in FDD. Buying one only for this issue? NO
The boot priority has been changed to: CD-network-HDD.
I've tried another non Toshiba branded ODD (in BIOS not mentioned/found)
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Thanks for help.
I will look for an other ODD from Toshiba trying for boot.
Does the toshiba bios show messages about booting via cd or network? Even choosing network ends in a faulty Windows boot.
After choosing an item there's no message while booting
As I mentioned: the most interesting issue is ODD works/boots well via adapter in a normal pc and also after windows has been started (secured mode). But no boot possible.
I suspect meanwhile BIOS or Mainboard. But is there a chance for update in secured mode? (the only thing it starts is "secured with prompt"). Cats bites itself in tail.
BIOS also was saved with default setup. Nothing changed.
In event viewer I've found entry about probs with hard-drive and controller.
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Windows Vista Ultimate doesn't install on Satellite M40

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As far as I know older units are not Vista supported. I believe it is not necessary to say why. Satellite M40 is older notebook model and definitely not Vista supported. Many newer WXP preinstalled notebooks are Vista supported but Toshiba has for each model designed new BIOS version and before installing Vista the BIOS update must be done at first.
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I own a Satellite M40-145 purchased just over one year ago; the DVD driver worked perfectly until three days ago, but today I discovered something... peculiar. It still reads commercial DVDs and burned DVD+R, but apparently it doesn't read burned DVD-Rs anymore. I have tried with different DVD-Rs I burned through the same DVD player, with no success; trying to access the DVD yields a "insert disk in D: drive" message.
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I'd hate to think it broke down just days after the expiration date of the warranty.

Hi
Well, you can try to remove the drive form the device manger.
After new reboot the drive should be recognized again. Check then if its possible to read the DVD-R CD.
But the issue sounds as a lens calibration error. If you use different media the lens must be calibrated again. But if this procedure fails, the drive is not able to read or write the DVD for example.
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Satellite M40 does not read from product Recovery DVD

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I have a bit of a problem that I hope someone can help me.
My Satellite M40 notebook fell while it was in the bag and the dvd drive stopped working .
I had it repaired and it plays cds but I can't get the recovery disk to work.
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I just checked my dvd recording device Sonic and it is not there. The read me file and all are there but the actual program I cannot find. So do I need to download that?
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>How do I know which firmware is compatible or goes with my dvd drive? How can I check?
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Unseen ESSId with special character - Satellite M40

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I have a Satellite M40 with an atheros AR5005g wireless card.
I have a wireless network with WPA2-PSK encryption. The ssid looks like that : g4s8j6b-special character-o7v35s7gt3q1c6b8
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For me it is a driver 's problem. How can i solve this problem ? This "special character " is not recognising from the drivers isn't it ? is it possible to convert the ssid in HEX code and to insert the ssid in HEX code and the key in HEX code in a data, to force the connection ? (manual connection like Linux)
yours faithfully
Oh this forum does not support the character ... it looks like this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F
(Unicode U+00DF)

Hi,
The ssid works with my other laptop (intel Wireless pro 3945 a/b/g) on Vista and Ubuntu (manual configuration).
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> {quote:title=[email protected] wrote:}{quote}
> That SSID is very long. Have you tried using a shorter SSID?
For me that not the problem. On my other Laptop, before it works with my ubuntu system i had to make clean my driver's installation. Then I have converted the ssid and the wpa2-psk key in HEX code. That's why for me, it seems to be a driver's problem but it is not to find a solution anywhere.
How can i try to set up the ssid in HEX code and not ASCII with a win XP system ?
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New DVD writer on Satellite M40-193 uses 100% CPU

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recently I have replaced my DVD-writer with a new one. My laptop is a Satellite M40-193 (PSM40E-06M026IT) and the original drive is a Mat****a UJ-831B. I have replaced it with a Sony-Nec Optiarc AD-7633A because I like the slot-in feature and the Labelflash feature.
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Satellite M40: Graphic Errors when changing screen resolution

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I have a Satellite M40 and a big problem.
in windows xp pro sp2:
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[edit]
I plugged an external monitor to the laptop and it works,
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http://www.ronnylindner.de/extern/images/toshiba/screen1.jpg
http://www.ronnylindner.de/extern/images/toshiba/screen2.jpg
http://www.ronnylindner.de/extern/images/toshiba/screen3.jpg
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Bye and thanks in advance, Ronny
Message was edited by: [email protected]_DE

I will try it with the Toshiba graphics driver, at the moment I use the newest Omega driver
I use 1280x800 as normal resolution
programs giving this error:
world of warcraft (1024x768) -> working with 1280x800
age of empires 2 (800x600)
as I said before, I get this problem also using Suse Linux when I switch from KDE to tty
thanks you too, hope we can get it working together :-)
[edit]
strange, using the Toshiba display driver I got the problem at the first try (aoe2), but now it is not reproducable :-(
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Satellite M40-307: Accessibility utility doesn't work with limited user account

Hello everybody,
I have got a Satellite M40-307 (PSM44E), and I have got a problem with the "accessibility" utility, that displays an icon in the Windows XP notification bar, to let the user know whether the "Fn" key is active or not.
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Hello Markus,
Did you read ?
I executed TACSPROP with the admin rights, and it does not run.
So, to follow you, I had a look, on TACSPROP.EXE and TACSPROP.DLL, the users had "read/execute" and "read" rights. I provided "full rights", and it solved nothing.
Obviously another program must be launched before, that is by default launched only by the administrator, and I am searching what program it is.
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Satellite M40 - SD card stuck in SD Card Reader

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Hello
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Bad thing is that there is no secret button. :(

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