Satellite L550 - System specifications

Have looked through searches but no luck - just need to find out whether my satellite L550 with i5 4GR running Windows 7 Pro has the capability of supporting an eSATA external drive that I want to build as the usb ready mades take forever to backup etc.
It has been suggested to me to find out if my machine's mobo is able to "hot swap" and is in AHCI mode - but how do i find out this info from the machine? Am fairly new to this sort of stuff and any help would be really appreciated.
Just as a matter of interest too - if I can use such a device is it "removed" in the same way as a USB device?

Hiyya Xardas my L550 is marked as PSLWSA-01000Q - is this what you mean?
I was just after something on the machine that willl tell me whether or not I can use an external eSATA HDD for backup and Scott Muellers site states that these come as 1.5 or 3 Gb transfer rates and to check to see what one's machine is capable of before setting the drive to one of those settings.
For example the drives come usually as 3Gb but have a lead that halves those different rates for compatability reasons for the machine one is using it on. In my case it is this Satellite.
Sorry to be a nuisance but I find the backups using USB externals take so long.
Regards
J

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Hi,
Can anybody please help with the performance of the Video ?
According to the specification of Toshiba the Video card has a shared memory option until 1.759Mb with a w7 64bit system.
When playing WoW I am experiancing massive video performance issues even when my video options are on the lowest settings. In multi-player environment my average fps is 6.
According to Tempro the system is fully up to date.
Considering the options, I am questioning whether the shared memory option works. During the game the 4Gb internal memory is used for only 42%. This would theoretically exclude and lack of internal memory. In the past you could allocate memory in BIOS, but that seems to have been automated. Also the video driver does not seem to give any options, except for the 3d options where I have set the usage of driver memory to high.
How to determine whether this option actually works ? and where can it be configured in order to force it.
Thanks for your help in advance. H
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name xxxxxxx
System Manufacturer TOSHIBA
System Model Satellite L550
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz, 2100 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date TOSHIBA V1.90, 18-12-2009
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
Time Zone W. Europe Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4,00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3,84 GB
Available Physical Memory 2,58 GB
Total Virtual Memory 7,68 GB
Available Virtual Memory 6,28 GB
Page File Space 3,84 GB
[Memory]
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0xF4400000-0xF44FFFFF Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family OK
0xD0000-0xD3FFF PCI bus OK
0xD4000-0xD7FFF PCI bus OK
0xE0000-0xE3FFF PCI bus OK
0xC0000000-0xDFFFFFFF PCI bus OK
0xF0000000-0xFEBFFFFF PCI bus OK
0xF0000000-0xFEBFFFFF Intel(R) ICH9 Family PCI Express Root Port 1 - 2940 OK
0xFED1C000-0xFED1FFFF Motherboard resources OK
0xFED10000-0xFED13FFF Motherboard resources OK
0xFED18000-0xFED18FFF Motherboard resources OK
0xFED19000-0xFED19FFF Motherboard resources OK
0xE0000000-0xEFFFFFFF Motherboard resources OK
0xFED20000-0xFED3FFFF Motherboard resources OK
0xFED45000-0xFED8FFFF Motherboard resources OK
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Hi buddy,
Quad is right, there is nothing what you can do to improve the shared memory for graphic card. Everything will be controlled automatically. Just make sure you have the maximum RAM capacity installed, then you will have the highest video memory.
Satellite L series is not designed for gaming. Its great for office, Internet, videos, photos, etc. but not the best notebook for gaming. Therefore the graphic card is not powerful enough.
Satellite A series is better but Qosmio series is great for games. :)

Cannot install Windows 7 on Satellite L550

I have a notebook Toshiba Satellite L550-13C.
I had problems with my laptop i couldn't start it i managed to boot my pc to windows xp with no drivers.
I have downloaded most of the drivers now I and to go back to windows 7 but it doest recognize the setip file when i click on it it says infalid win32 something like that whatwhat sould do??
And no i cant do it when i boot the pc it makes another problem
So how can i fix this not recognize thing do i need too download a driver or something like that
Need heeeelp :(

Hello
Your posting is pretty confusing and it is not easy to understand you.
I dont understand which setup file you want to use but you cannot install operating system with click on some setup file.
You can install Windows 7 using Toshiba recovery image (if you got one) or using original Microsoft Windows 7 installation disc.
So please be nice and explain to me which disc do you have and how do you try to install Windows 7.

Satellite L550-11k - HDMI + VGA at the same time?

Hi there,
I have Satellite L550-11k laptop, and i was wondering if i can have external monitor working hooked up on VGA port and HDMI monitor working ( or just audio from hdmi ) at the same time.
I tried and have no luck making it work together.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 as OS, and i think it's not problem related to operating system.
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Kind Regards

I was able to select HDMI and VGA,( my built in monitor turned off ) but as i don't have a third monitor ( only laptop one and one external ) i could not test is there a picture on HDMI output but i can say there is no sound so i assume there is no picture also. I just needed sound from HDMI. Maybe i will be able to test it on summer. Thanks on your quick reply. I was wondering is this is a limitation of the graphics adapter ? By the way, it seems Dynadock is not compatible with Linux operating systems.

5.1 Sound for Satellite L550

Hello!
I bought a new 5.1 sound system but unfortunately my onboard sound card doesn't support it.
Is it possible to install another onboard sound card and - if yes - which ones can i use?
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Hello - and sorry that i did not reply earlier.
I have a satellite l550-11j.
To be honest, I don't really know the difference of sound between the onboard sound card and ones that support 5.1.
As far as I know it should be able to decode the sound as well so that it works just like that, right?
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Another problem is, that I don't use windows but ubuntu, but well, I guess I can find a way to solve that issue as well.
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Satellite L550-32bit vs 64 bit...

hi folks,
I just purchased a Satellite-L550 on labor day. Received it today. In playing around with it, I noticed that it has vista home premium x64 on it...I didnt notice this when I purchased it (I chose the ST5702 option instead of the ST5701 option).
Turns out, I need this computer to be able to work from home when necessary...this requires use of a Cisco Systems VPN Client...My understanding is that none of these are supported in x64 (vista, xp, etc) yet, and my company only has support for 32 bit windows...
So I would like to reformat my computer and install Vista Ultimate (32 bit) on my machine so that I can run the vpn client...I have Vista Ultimate already, and I have generated the applications and drivers dvd. I am concerned (since I dont know much about 32 vs 64) that some of the hardware in this st5702 (L550) will not be compatible and I will have problems getting everything working again...
Does anyone know if this will be possible or not? Or have any other ideas about what I should do? Is contacting Toshiba even remotely worth my time?
thanks for any assistance you can provide...

Any hardware that supports Vista 64bit will be fully supported under Vista 32bit so you are good to go there. The opposite is not true though. Not all hardware that is supported by 32bit is supported by 64bit. You should have no problems performing this with the understanding that you will need to wipe the hard drive first then do a clean install of Vista 32 (you can't do an in place upgrade). The only hardware change that you will notice is that you will only see and be able to use between 3.0 and 3.5gb of the 4 gig of ram that is installed under Vista 32 (it's a limitation of a 32bit Operating System).
From what I can tell from looking at the two systems specs the main difference between the two hardware wise is the 5702 has 4gig of ram vs 3gig on the 5701 and the 5702 has a Higher End ATI Graphics Chipset vs the 5701's middle of the road at best Intel Graphics Chipset so you actually have a better laptop hardware wise.
If you wanted to do so and have enough hard disk space to spare you could install Vista Ultimate 32 to a different partition and have both your existing Vista 64 and the new Vista Ult 32 available to use. See this guide but substitute Vista 64 for Vista already installed and Vista 32 for Windows 7.
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

Satellite L550-18M - Cannot find any Touchpad Drivers

Hello.
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I tried installing some synaptics from the our sugestions official website and some synaptics drivers from a Toshiba Satellite L500D, but it didn`t help.
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Hi mate
I dont know what Windows OS you have but I assume you are using Win 7 64bit. Right?
The L550-18M belongs to PSLNEE series.
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Satellite L550 - SMART Reports HDD Failure Soon - What To Do?

Toshiba Satellite L550-113
On startup, I get a SMART message reporting HDD failure soon, and I'm requested to hit F1 before it will continue to boot to Windows (Vista 32 Bit).
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Disk0
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The laptop belonged to a family member who passed away last year, so I've no idea if the warranty still existed. I needed to get the laptop up and running as soon as possible, so going through the RMA process with Toshiba was always going to take too long.
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Satellite L550 - Touchpad stops scrolling sometimes

Hello,
since I bought my Satellite L550 I have problems with the touchpad.
From time to time it stops the scolling funktionality. I tried different things. I deinstalled the drivers reinstalled them, tried older drivers and so on.
Then I decided to wait until I get my Windows 7. Two days ago I received my package and after the successful upgrade to Windows 7 the problem occured again. Suddenly the scolling-functionality didn't work.
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he current installed driververison is 7.102.302.104.
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P.S. sorry for my bad english. I'm from Germany.

Hello
Have you also tried to reinstall the Touchpad driver? You can find the newest version on the Toshiba website.
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com => Support & Downloads => Donwload Drivers
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Im not sure if this will solve your problem but its worth a try. ;)
Greets

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Satellite L550-1CC starts with Consistancy disks check

Hi all
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Recently on start up I have been receiving the message " one of your disks needs to be checked for consistency " and then it runs a scan, and after 2 0r 3 minutes boots up to windows as normal.
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I have noticed no noise from the HDD.
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ODD on my Satellite L550-11J is damaged - looking for new suitable device

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System Specifications for HR/Payroll

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Satellite L550: some CDs does not play correctly - scratching noise

I have a Satellite L550 and I was happy with it so far, as long as I didn't use CD listening.
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Hi
Scratching noice??? Did you try different software?
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