Equium A100-338: Whilst using program screen minimizes

Whilst using programmes or internet or emails, even games the screen keeps minimising. Anyone got the answer?
Thanks

Could you please be more precise?
What notebook do you use? What happen exactly?
Does it happen using the battery or main power?
Please post more details!

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My daughter has a Equium A100-338 bought in the UK 15 months ago, running Vista Home Premium. It has recently developed a problem with the battery life, which in theory should mean replacing the battery, but I'm not so sure!
The battery runs down quickly to say 80% 6 mins remaining, about 20 minutes after a full charge. Then putting it on charge it recovers to 100% in about 20 minutes. The laptop does get rather warm underneath, but I think that's probably normal, my other daughter's older Equium gets warm just the same.
Has anyone come across this issue, or is it just that it needs a new battery? I would have thought it should have lasted longer, as the other Equium's battery is still going strong and is a year older!
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Hi
Hmm I think you battery is not dead and can be used much longer as you think.
I see youve got Vista on your notebook. This OS needs more notebook resources as the Win XP for example. This would also mean that the Vista preinstalled notebooks would run shorter on battery power as the notebook with Windows XP.
Last but not least the battery working time depends strongly on the notebook usage.
If you would play some games or would watch DVD movies then the battery would discharge faster.
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Equium A100-338 - Do I have to buy a recovery disk?

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If you want the factory settings back as the first time you started the notebook you have to buy a Toshiba recovery disk. This disk contains an image of the factory settings and so you can install the notebook in few minutes with all Toshiba drivers and tools.
But I dont understand why this is ridiculous for you. I mean normally you get on Toshiba notebook with Vista after the first start a message that you should burn the recovery disk yourself. This takes only 10 minutes and you need only one or two DVD disks. I did this on my Toshiba notebook and I think you should take 10 minutes from your free time to do this too.
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a solution can be disabling the flash card service if you dont need your flash drive.
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I think the E partition is used for Recover image. The Toshiba notebooks are preinstalled with an Toshiba recover disk creator. This tool allows you to create a own disk. And the image is placed on the additional partition

Equium A100-338: Vista explorer not working properly

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May I ask what wireless configuration tool do you use???
Did you try to refresh or to reconfigure the WLan profile on the router and on the notebook?
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Driver Downloading for Equium A100 338

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Equium A100-338 BIOS Password

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At first I want to tell, that my problem is fixed. I have A100 model and I was very happy since Feb 2007 when I bought it. I'm security maniac, so I putted passwords for everything: BIOS user, BIOS administrator, HDD, and few others :) Anyway, everything was OK until... my password wasn't working any more. I'm 100% sure about user, and admin password. So I tried reset BIOS and I took of battery for two days. Of course for nothing ;)
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I searched in the Toshiba knwowledg base mentioned in your message above but I didnt find any articles about the BIOS password issue on A100 notebook.
I found some articles about Tecra A3 or Satellite A80 and this should be fixed by BIOS update.
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Equium A100 black screen on startup

Toshiba Equium A100 laptop
Completely black screen on startup so please don't say go into safe mode etc, because I can't.
I can't see a thing.
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Video showing what's happening - BTW the buttons you see me pressing are Fn+F5 I've heard that that sometimes works, but yeah, it didn't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7KcROckVI
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Hi
Look not good dude I think its an serious hardware issue
I checked the movie and cannot hear a beep when the notebook passes the POST (power on self-test). So for me it looks like something wrong with the hardware
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Such issues are always strange and I think we can only suggest what could be wrong or what could help.
Hmm you said there is a messages saying the network cables are not connected.
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Black screen on Equium A100-306 after watching movie on external projector

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I've got Equium A100-306 Laptop and it was working fine. Yesterday I plugged in a projector and watched the movie.
Once i finished the movie i switch it off and disconnected the projector.
After few hours later i tried to switch my laptop and found that the inital screen loads up after that there's nothing in the screen.
I could go in the BIOS but couldn't go the Safe mode. I still remember i did use Fn and F5 key but nothing comes up so any help could be much appreciated.
As the initial screen loads up i don't think there's a problem on screen neither on graphic card as the toshiba logo shows up at the starting.
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Hmm for me it looks like the display was set ONLY to an external display device (projector, external monitor, etc) and therefore you are not able to see anything on the notebooks internal screen.
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