Qosmio x305 and FN key trouble

I recently bought this awesome machine for gaming! Well while cleaning up unused apps i can't disable my touchpad anymore. I can do just about every FN action except the wireless and disable touchpad.
I don't even have the display come down from the top of the screen anymore. I made sure I have cfFncEnabler running in msconfig as well as kenotify.
Any help would be very much appreciated thank you.
-Andrew

I had exactly the same problem. Unfortunately there is no driver for that on Toshiba website.
All you can do to fix it is reinstall windows from recovery disc.
Everything should be fine.
Good luck
Ghostwell

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My Qosmio X305-Q701 has recently started crashing while playing any games. Never had a problem out of it until the past month. All games now from WoW and F.E.A.R. to solitare. It will just randomly go to a black screen and the last sound byte while loop over and over requiring a hard reboot.
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Voice-over and weird key combinations trouble.

hello,
I have a macbook of the previous gen. with OSX leopard. Last night a voice-over turned on which talks to everything I do even telling me on what internet site I am, everything that I was using was outlined. And the keys had an other order. So for example: F11 was not for turning down volume but became the expose button.
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I have Toshiba Qosmio F50-12J and have trouble with Value Added Package v 1.2.28.
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Your posting is a little bit confusing and in my opinion you make something wrong. My Qosmio F50 runs pretty good on Windows 7 and I dont have any problems with the FN keys, illumination buttons or other function.
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Install Flash Cards Support Utility for Vista. Restart again.
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Hi buddy,
It seems that this is a typical example, that only pretested display drivers from Toshiba should be used. Why?
The nVidia drivers are not pretested and they dont have an overheat protection. So for me it sounds like that the nVidia driver has destroyed your graphic card. That means no driver will help you and reinstallation of the whole system too.
I think the only option is replacing the graphic card. Therefore you should contact an authorized service provider in your country. Here you can search:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com
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I recently bought one new Toshiba Qosmio X770, but unfortunately it came with this new Windows 7.
I have 2 other toshiba notebooks, one is a NB200 Netbook with WinXP32bits running nicely about 1 year or more, and another big one Satellite P300 also with XP32bits.
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Windows 7 => Windows XP 64bits with some fancy and diferent colors. Look at the Control Panel on the classic view, its the same as Windows XP! The main difference is that there are some few new items.
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