Portege M200 Display questions

Hi. I've just received my new M200 tablet pc, but the display is sluggy compared to my Tecra S1 display. It seems like there is something on top of the whole display which makes the picture sluggy and the colours too. This can be seen especially on white background. Is there a plastic to be removed, because I looked and I think there is no such or is it normal for tablet pcs?

Hi
Jack is absolutely right. You can not compare displays used on usual notebooks and display construction used on tablet PC. I am not an expert but as far as I know tablet PC display is build on completely other way and contains more different levels. Top level is very sturdy and protects the display against scratch.
To be able and use tablet pen there is also a kind of contact lamination. I am pretty sure that all those levels build above the display makes the picture sludgy.
Bye

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I also believe this happen because of overheating. In such cases the notebook will simply switch off without any warning. Sorry buddy but I believe it is time for cleaning up. Now is the question how you want to do this. Alone or it should be done on professional way.
Your decision!

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If you want to boot from the CD or DVD you will need a compatible external CD/DVD drive!!! Without this drive you will be not able to reinstall the Windows XP from the CD!
But you boss has installed the Vista OS using the external drive. Why you dont use the same drive to reinstall the XP???
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I have my product recovery DVD-ROM but I am scared to use it as the warning coming with it says that reformatting will lose all of my work and I am not sure if it will automatically reformat my hard drive (as I have no back ups of my work) or will I be given a choice? Also, I see from your forums that it will not actually repair any corrupt OS files. I have also seen files about making a ghost image to a floppy drive but I do not have a floppy drive on my Portege M200.
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Moment. In my last posting I wrote about Microsoft WXP installation discs and not Toshiba recovery discs. There is a big difference.
Using Toshiba recovery disc you will not have repair option just option for clean OS installation (recovery image).
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Portege M200: How to rectify Bluetooth Stack upgrade failure

I was upgrading the Bluetooth stack of my portege M200 with the drivers posted on Toshiba's website. during the end my laptop hung up. Had no option but to resatart the same.
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Still dosent help, when I tried installing the old driver, I guess it looked at the current installation of the new driver and it needed to uninstall that first. I still got the same message 'The feature that you are trying to use is available on another network' and is looking for the file at the following address 'U:\nbtools\__XPT_Tools-CDs\PMR400288EU0 EN FR GR IT Firebolt10 SPM20 XPT CD1\Bluetooth Stack\UK\'.
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"M200 Recovery using Floppy or SD Card
Posted: 15-Aug-2005 10:36
I am posting this in the hope it will help others seeking to use the recovery CD/DVD but without a bootable CD drive. I would like to acknowledge the Toshiba forum of TabletPCBuzz.com
http://tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12414
for the inspiration of how it was done.
1. You will need a floppy drive or an SD card plus any type of CD drive. If your M200 is not working properly you will also need access to another computer to prepare the floppy disk.
2. You will need to download some software: IsoBuster
http://www.isobuster.com/
and WinImage
http://www.winimage.com/
or similar programs.
3. Put the Recovery CD into any computer and run IsoBuster. Click on Bootable CD on the left and then on the right you should see an .img file of size 1.41MB on the right. On my CD it's called Arnes Boot Record.img. Right click on it and extract the file. Close IsoBuster
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That's it! If don't have a floppy drive but have an SD card and a working M200 then Toshiba's SD card program will put the .img file onto the SD card and you can then boot from there.
There is a good chance this method will work for other Toshiba notebooks but I can't check this"
(author stephem)
This works!
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Hi there
I hope after long time you will end your problem. The compatible ODDs for your Portege M200 are:
1) Toshiba, PA3352E-SCD2, USB2.0 CD-RW/DVD-Rom Drive
2) Toshiba, PA3402E-1DV2, Rev.501, USB2.0 DVD Super Multi Drive,
3) Toshiba, PX1055E-1NST, (Freecom drive), with a PC Card (16bit), Cable II, PCMCIA,
4) Toshiba, PX1055E-1NST, (Freecom drive), with a CardBus, Cable II, CARD BUS
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I have also found info you can use:
a) Toshiba, PA3352E-SCD2, USB2.0 CD-RW/DVD-Rom Drive
b) Toshiba, PA3402E-1DV2, USB2.0 DVD Super Multi Drive
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> Where can I find drivers to my Portege M200? Because on the download-page there are none
What Toshiba driver page did you check????
I have visited the Toshiba European driver page and found all necessary drivers
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Maximum hard drive on Portege M200

I've recently bought a Portege M200 on ebay and I'm thinking of installing a new 250GB IDE hard drive.
Is there a maximum hard drive size for this model?

Hi,
It's hard to say if a 250gb HD will fit in your M200, but I think it's not impossible.
The limits of the (possibly) bios restrictions are not precisely given, but for example in my 3110 ( an oldie with a 6gb HD ) I installed a 40gb HD without any problems. ( despite pessimistic advices ! )
In case of bios-restrictions most HD-manufacturers have special advices and/or software programs to deal with such restrictions
If you have a 250gb HD at your disposal, there is nothing wrong just trying to install it ; in the first installation-screens of XP it will be clear if it' will be accepted at its full capacity or not
EDIT : if there will be a bios-limitation than is it will be most likely at 137gb ; you can use your 250gb by making 2 partitions of 125gb each
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I have a toshiba portege M200 notebook with Windows XP Professional and Service Pack 2.
If I activate the WLAN adapter the WLAN network is shown once and I can connect me and use it problem-free.
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Hi
How did you deactivate the WLan adapter?
Did you use the switch at the notebooks side?
Usually the WLan should be enabled using the FN+F8 option
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Portege M200 - hard drive failed

My 60GB Toshiba hard drive failed in my Portege M200.
I tried fitting a hard drive I had in my old laptop a 30GB Hitachi hard drive but the laptop doesnt seem to recognise it. Does it need a Toshiba hard drive or is the laptop dead, when I put the hard drive in I get invalid boot disk message.
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No it must not be Toshiba HDD only. I found the list of some compatible HDDs for this old Portege.
You can use follow HDDs:
- TOSHIBA HDD2193B
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Have you tried to install OS using old HDD?

Portege M200, Bluetooth headset

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I am trying to connect my Qware bluetooth headset. It is recognized, but it doesn't connect. A message as "could not connect device".
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bye

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CAN ANY ONE TELL ME HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 7 IN MY PROTEGE M200 I AM SO MUCH WORRIED ABOUT THAT
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PART NUMBER : PPM21U -1KCPK-4
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Portégé M200 (PPM21U-021YD4)
Toshiba does not support that model beyond Windows XP.
You can probably restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery discs obtained from a third party.
   Digitalmedia-labs.com
   Recovery-Disks.com
   MyRecoveryCDs.com
   Recovery-CD.com
   RestoreDisks.com
   RestoreCD4u
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Hi there,
I recently purchased a used Portege M200 and I'm having trouble installing an operating system.
The situation: I got the notebook with a basic trial version of win XP home which I couldn't use. It wouldn't boot from the external usb dvd drive which I bought so I installed a linux system by switching hd with a friend's laptop and installing it via this machine (this method doesn't work with windows though).
After reading many articles by people who encountered the same problem I decided to go and try to boot from an sd card, which would offer various possibilities to install windows.
I tried many things but yet couldnt boot from sd.
I use a 2GB Panasonic class4 SD card.
- The toshiba sd-utilities (afaik) only work on toshiba windows machines, so they're no use to me
- People said that placing an image of a boot floppy on the SD, naming it $tosfd000.vfd or $tosfd00.vfd (tried both) would do the trick, but no.
- When switching the boot order to FDD->HDD->... or using the third option in the toshiba boot screen the green led next to the card reader will flash once, but afterwards directly boot the linux from HDD.
Specifications: Toshiba Portege M200, 2ghz, the bios is ACPI v.3.01 (which is a little confusing since the most recent version i found for the portege is 1.8)
could it be that someone messed up the bios by installig a version that is not compatible with my laptop?
any help much appreciated!

I wouldn't worry about it saying acpi 3.01 - thats likely just the version of acpi the bios supports.
I have also had trouble booting off sd cards via the $TOSFD00.VFD method. My personal experience is that it does work but only seems to for certain images. At least one of the available m200 vfd images doesn't work for me (tho can't remember which one). You could try creating your own or alternatively look into booting via pxe. One way is to boot via pxe and use the original toshiba windows xp ghost install images from the included cd (if you have it.) Tutorials are easy to find - think I followed these instructions: http://home.allegiance.tv/~joem298/

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