Satellite L650-10H - Multiple Win 7 entries in boot manager

I have Toshiba Satellite L650-10H and i recently reinstalled my Win 7 64-bit.
There is no problem at all except that at the notebook start i get this [http://tinypic.com/r/se7uja/6] .
3 Win 7 entries in the boot manager
I have to always choose the first one and everything is fine.
Its like the old copy of win didnt remove although a i have formated the discs...
Is there any option to get rid of it?
I dont mind reinstalling again if i know it will help .

> Just wonder if i remove the program after i made the changes, will it stay or it will pop up again at startup?
No, the changes will stay.
> And the second problem is that it solved my problem just partially.
>I would like to somehow remove the 2 copies of Win that i dont need if it is possible.
>This program just "hide" them.
I assume you installed both OS on different partitions right?
In such case just remove/delete the partition where the other Win 7 systems are installed.
You can do that in Disk Management (right click on My Computer -> Manage -> Disk Management)

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Satellite L650-10H - need Win 7 controller communications driver

hi!
i have SATELLITE L650-10H NOTEBOOK and i want to install windows 7 ultimate 64bit
so i downloaded the drivers from the site without any software that i don't need and i still have one driver that i don't know what is it his name:CONTROLLER I SIMPLE COMMUNICATIOS
i thought maby it's a modem but i don't have a modem in this notebook also i don't have bluethooth and i'm realy don't want to install all the software of toshiba to find out what is it
maby somebody can help me about this??
thank's
ofek

Hi,
> don't know what is it his name:CONTROLLER I SIMPLE COMMUNICATIOS
Try to download this driver:
http://www.drivercure.com/driver/driver_captcha.php?device_driver_id=5CFDA707-11B0-4FEC-8C89-65E3E4EA9AFD

Satellite L650-10h - New Win7 installation cannot see HDD

Hi!
i have Satellite L650-10H and i want to format him to install WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE.
So i tried to format and make new partition to my hard drive and i'm used acronis disk director 11 and he can't see the hard drive!
Even partition magic 8 or paragon server 10 and no one of this software can see the hard drive!!
In the same way i tried to make an image to my hard drive and acronis true image 2010 can't see it.
Only GHOST15 see the hard drive and make an image but he can change partitions.
In the bios i didn't see somthing that maby can make this problem and in the drivers i didn't find any bios update about this situation.
important to know that i used acronis disk director from a boot able disk and so paragon and others but even if some software have problem with some hard drive the other read him but here no budy can see him!
so i'm askink what is he problem?? something in this laptop is diffrent from others i'm know.what is the sulotion for this problem?
pls ur fast help
thank's
ofek

hi friends!
thank's for ur help.
first of all i know about sata mode and compatible and i check it in the begining the same result can't see the hdd.
second i know that i can use the windows tool but sometime u want to make things that he don't make so well i want the pro way
third,it's principle! why it's not working??? and if i want to make an image to the partition????? it's not work too! paragon and acronis i'm using the last version of them so that why i can't understand it.acronis disk director 11 it's somthing like few month only.
and remember that not all the 3rd party can import sata drivers...
i have another sulotion for now...to take out the hdd to another computer and there he work just fine and the 3rd party see him no problem but it's not so fun... :)
wait to ur answer
ofek

Cannot find the Satellite L650-10H in support database

Hi,
I bought Toshiba L650-10H (PSK1JE-00400MSK) two years ago and now i have problem find this model in support database.
This is my laptop: http://notebooky.heureka.sk/toshiba-satellite-l650-10h-psk1je-00400msk/

Hi
This notebook Satellite L650-10G is DISCONTINUED MODEL
You can find the specification sheet here:
[Satellite L650-10G|http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&toshibaShop= true&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=10 85933]
If you need drivers, you can download this from driver page

Do I have bluetooth at Satellite L650-10h?

I bought the laptop Satellite L650-10h
Do i have bluetooth?
How can i update my hd5650 card?
thank you very much,i am new here at the forum
have a good day
Lior

Yo see, a Toshiba display driver has a an overheating protection and it's modified. I mean, if you try to install from Ati driver page you will get a message like ,, no compatible hardware found in your laptop,,. So, you should try from toshiba driver page but the problem that it can be not up to date. Anyway, go to toshiba diver page and check what version is available for your model. If it's newer than installed onw, you can update it. But before, remove the previous one, reatrt the lap and install downloaded one. As I mentioned above, look here:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp

Satellite L650-10H PSK1JE - no external signal on TV using HDMI

I connected my Toshiba L650-10H PSK1JE with TV KDL-26BX320 using HDMI cable. Switched Win+P (Fn+F5) to expand the screen. TV has no signal (black screen) but computer recognize TV. All drivers are updated.
Settings screenshot:
[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29198343/Screenshot%202014-09-02%2015.53.56.png]

If it doesnt work and if you are sure you have used right HDMI port, then you should check if this issue appear using another monitor.
Try also do reinstall or update the graphic card driver Could be necessary in this case
I can recommend you just such few common ideas because there is no typical solution for such HDMI issues.
You should connect both devices with an HDMI cable but both devices should be powered OFF.
Then power up the TV, choose the right HDMI channel and then power up the notebook.
After the unit has been booted up, use the mentioned Fn F5 to enable the output on the TV

Satellite P70-A-120 - Win 8.1 booting problem

Hello.
I have a problem with the boot of my Satellite P70.
The first time that I push the power button, it appears the screen with the Toshiba logo but Windows 8.1 doesnt start.
If I power off the pc with the power button and push the power button another time, appears Windows without problems.
Someone could help me?
Thanks!

Hi
First of all try to set the BIOS to default settings.
Power up the unit and press F2, now you should be able to access the BIOS.
Within the BIOS press F9 to get default values and save the changes pressing F10
After that check if the notebook would boot properly.
In case the issue would still persist, disable the fast startup as described here:
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB2B03EY0002R01.htm
Feedback would be appreciated

5800 XM Multiple ringtone entries in profile manag...

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Re: Can't perform factory reset to Satellite L650

Hi support team,
Hope you are well :)
I have some troubles and hope you will help me to resolve them. Here is the description of my problem:
I have a Toshiba Satellite L650 - 17R laptop which I want to reset to factory defaults. I have used the following instructions to do that (http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD1303440001R01.htm), but when I'm pressing to the F8 upon notebook's startup there appears a list of choises on the display which doesn't contain "Repair Your Computer" or "?????????????? ???????" or something like that. The first entry in that list is "Safe Mode", second is "Safe Mode With Networking" and so on. Also I've tried the other method described in lots of places in the internet, that is to press 0 and power buttons together when turning on the laptop. In this case again it starts to do things as described in the instructions (for example here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5dEOm1EJBw): it beeps then, when I'm releasing the 0 button, it prints "starting Windows" and shows Windows logo, after that it turns on as always and no other dialog boxes are shown.
Questions:
Is there an alternative way to do the factory reset?
I have doubts that the "Toshiba HDD recovery" tool of my laptop is corrupted, so is it possible to download that tool from the internet, put it on dvd disk and install from there? If yes, then can you please give me a link of that tool for my model?
Best Regards,
Mihran Hovsepyan.

Hello Mihran and welcome in Toshiba forum
Lets see what is wrong there.
At first some general info. Every new Toshiba notebook is preinstalled with original recovery image. This image is also saved on HDD on separate partition. With original factory settings Repair my computer option will be listed in Advanced boot options (F8 at start-up) and HDD recovery option can be done as described in Toshiba document that you posted in your first posting. If nothing is changed this option will be there and you will be able to do HDD recovery installation again ad again.
> when I'm pressing to the F8 upon notebook's startup there appears a list of choises on the display which doesn't contain "Repair Your Computer"
This will happen if you have installed own OS version using Microsoft installation disc. After doing this option Repair my computer will disappear and you will not be able to start HDD recovery installation anymore.
> Is there an alternative way to do the factory reset?
Yes. You must use recovery DVD disc for OS installation. After doing this everything will be as before. Repair my computer option will be available again and you will havce original factory settings again.
If you have more questions you are welcome.

Toshiba Satellite L650 - 14F : Experiences?

Hi, I just bought new laptop recently. Because of my job I had to make a quick start so I installed win 7 on it etc... Now I have a little bit of time to fiddle around with linux, so I thought of installing Arch distro. Did it a few times on a virtual box, but from my experience virtual box is just too idyllic environment to actually simulate real problems one can encounter during installation e.g. internet access.
Satellite L650 really have great performances, and I'm really satisfied with how it works, but I had problems connecting to internet when I fresh installed win7. Usually windows handle this automatically when I connect with cable, and then wireless drivers are downloaded etc... but I had install drivers to be able to connect over cable at first place.
So, because of that, I'm wondering if anyone had any experience with Satellite L650, and connecting him to internet or any other problems while installing arch? Also, I'd like to keep windows on my pc. I currently have one and only partition of ~500 gigs with windows on it, so Is it advisable to prepare partitions with windows partitioner in advance to prevent any "whoops, I accidentally erased my windows partition" problems?
(Yes, yes, I saw wiki on how to configure network, etc.. but I'd like to skip that step if possible )

ewaller wrote:
whell, I would like to, but, is there any other way to copy outpout, except retipeing it,
Okay, fair enough. What I really need is the 32 bit number that identifies the manufacturer and product of the wired Ethernet control. Here is how I did it on my system:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
04:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
04:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
04:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
04:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller
ewaller@odin:~ 1006 %lspci -n | grep 03:00
03:00.0 0200: 10ec:8136 (rev 02)
It is the 10ec:8136 that identifies my card.
It is good that your system identifies the NIC in lspci. That ifconfig -a does not show it says that the kernel could not find a module to support your interface. You will need to find the correct driver for the NIC (based upon that 32 bit signature), and install it such that the kernel can find it.
Once we find it, getting it into your system is another matter. You said USB is not working. Can you boot from the hard disk or must you boot from CD? If you can boot from Disk, can you mount the CD? That might be a way to import the needed driver.
ok, so if I'm correct, this is it:
for 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) after running lspci -n | grep 02:00 I got this:
02:00.0 0200: 1969:2060 (rev c1)
and for 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01)
03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4727 (rev 01)
hope you can make something out of this, btw, wired connection is my priority now so I hope you can help. thanks!

Can't restore HDD on my Satellite L650-18M

Satellite L650 frozen at boot up. despite mc fee, a virus has stopped boot up. Stops at flashing cursor top left. can boot from recovery cd. BUT restore / recovery wont complete to any selected restore point though it goes through all the motions and then says at end, cant complete with error.
No toshiba hdd recovery option (ie to factory settings) is available in recovery console, or with recovery disk.
D Drive has all the recovery data ok as I can move aroud from c> prompt in dos to alldrives/ areas. Dont have own burned recovery disks. This happened quick .
NOW installed win 7 (64bit) in frustration from 'a' disk, works but all installed s/wareand toshiba drivers now useless . Bottom line, is there a patch to install or a work around that will allow access to reset to the factory settings with the data stored on disk/drive D. Normal methods of starting this process are not available

Can you please tell us which error was shown at the end of recovery installation?
Anyway, now after OS installation with non-Toshiba disc there is no way to start HDD recovery installation again and recovery image can be installed with Toshiba recovery DVD only.
> NOW installed win 7 (64bit) in frustration from 'a' disk, works but all installed s/wareand toshiba drivers now useless
To be honest your posting is a little bit confusing and I dont understand what you want to say with this sentence. If you have installed clean OS you must install all drivers and Toshiba stuff additionally. All of them are available on Toshiba download page.
If you have more questions please be clear and ask one by one so it will be easier to give answer to each of them.

Satellite L650-01H - BIOS can't update

Hello
I have Satellite L650-01H with windows 7 and I have black screen when I try to format the NB with my recovery disks.
I have a bios 1.4 and I am try to ubdate my BIOS to the new one from the site of Toshiba its give me a .exe file and I cant run it from my usb memory with dos it give me "erro running file".
I try to install ubuntu and i get it.
First of all what is the problem o black screen and i can make a recovery??
Second if is bios problem how to install new bios from dos (i dont have .rom file where to find it).??
Thank you in advanced
ChaiKiou

At first i must say that you cannot update BIOS in DOS. Toshiba offers nur WIN BIOS updates. That means BIOS update can be started in Windows only.
I dont know why do you have black screen but before you try to use recovery discs enter BIOS and set it to default settings.
Restart notebook and press F12 several times to enter Boot menu. When the boot meny is shown on the screen put disc 1 into optical disc drive. After doing this set CD/DVD drive in boot menu and press ENTER. Your optical disc drive will be forced to be first bootable device and it will start to read recovery image.
When you do all this can you see anything on the screen?

Toshiba Satellite L650-07U, Hard disk failure and replacement

Hi all,
I have Toshiba Satellite L650-07U Laptop, Model: PSK1EC-0700Q with 4GB RAM, 650GB HD, Windows 7 Home Premium installed. At the time of first use, i made Recovery DVDs which took 4 blank DVDs using Recovery media creator.
From 2 weeks it is giving problem, at start its slowdown with every application, then suddenly it started Hard disk failure error and ask to backup important files. From that instant i did all my backup save in another portable Hard drive.
I had hiren boot CD, and ran RAM test and found it OK, and then run Hard Disk test and found few bad sectors at few certain point, As 650GB Hard disk was taking alot time of time for checking bad sectors, so i stopped that application.
First I tried Recovery DVDs to restore Windows, but it failed as Laptop DVD-Writer was unable to boot from those created DVDs (DVDs are OK as had checked it on Desktop computer DVD-ROM), Laptop DVD-Writer is also working as I test few more bootable CDs and it booted perfectly, but it is not booting from Recovery DVDs.
Than i tried to restore from Recovery partition using Factory restore settings, it erases all data and reinstall new and fresh copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. It works fine for few hours than again pops up Hard Disk Failure message again and again. I searched here in Toshiba Forum and have found similar problem with other members and finally decided that it need to replace Hard Disk with new one. As It is now two and a half month old, thats why i need to buy new Hard Disk for my Laptop.
I checked all partitions of drive using Hiren Boot CD, and had found that there are four default partitions in Toshiba original laptop drive,
One hidden partition of 1.5 GB
One hidden partition of almost 21 GB
One hidden partition of almost 12 GB
One partition of 561 GB, which was the original partition where windows 7 was installed along with all of my Data.
Now I want to replace faulty drive with a new one and have a lot of question in my mind which I need to share with you guys.
At the time of first use I installed Windows 7 64 bit edition, and made Recovery DVDs, and at second time of restore to factory setting I had installed Windows 7 32 bit. I have confusion about recovery DVDs (which is not booting from default DVD-Writer of Laptop), either it has 64 Bit recovery data or 32 bit? Or have both 64 and 32 bit Data.
Toshiba restore to factory setting without using any recovery DVD/USB is the best possible way to restore Windows 7, How can I make same recover hidden partitions from original/faulty hard drives to new hard drive partitions? Is this possible and how?
On Default hard drive there was one partition of 561GB instead of two or more partitions. Is this possible to split partitions in new hard drives instead of one big partition?
As Recovery DVDs are not able to boot from laptop default DVD-Writer, is it possible to open those DVDs on another System and copy tem in USB drive and use it for booting? If it is possible than please show me the steps for making bootable USB from these Recovery DVDs.
Thanks,
masterleous
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Satellite L650-07U (PSK1EC-07U00Q)
This site is for US computers. I doubt you'll get your questions for that Canadian model answered here.
There appear to be two recovery partitions. Maybe one for 32- and one for 64-bit Windows. Or maybe one is for English and the other for French.
Your User's Manual isn't much help either. You probably need to ask Toshiba tech support in Canada.
About all I have to offer is this: Be wary of drives with advanced-format technology. See my message about that.
-Jerry

Efibootmgr & gummiboot replaced UEFI entry for Windows Boot Manager

TLDR
I am now in Windows 7 and dual boot with Arch is working fine.
But before I update Arch, I would like to understand what happened, as in why adding an efibootmgr entry for Arch replaced/deleted the Windows Boot Manager entry although I followed the BG.
The status of my UEFI boot menu was, before the installation of Arch:
Windows Boot Manager
AHCI HDJ... (hard drive 1)
AHCI ST... (hard drive 2)
While working through the BG, I decided to use gummiboot=> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … #Gummiboot. So:
pacman -S gummiboot
gummiboot install
pacman -S efibootmgr
gummiboot install
[some error ocurred, as mentioned in red box]
efibootmgr -c -L "Gummiboot" -l /EFI/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi
nano /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=/dev/sdb3 ro
[CTRL + X, Y, Enter]
exit
umount /mnt/{boot,home,}
reboot
I then saw a new list of the UEFI boot order:
Gummiboot
AHCI HDJ... (hard drive 1)
AHCI ST... (hard drive 2)
Chose Gummiboot and it brought up a gummiboot menu with entries
Arch Linux
Windows Boot Manager
EFI Shell something
Selected Arch Linux and it went to a message something along "boot device ' ' not found" and I was in a shell which was, I think, rootfs.
I rebooted via the button on my desktop and out the Arch Linux USB drive back. After mounting the partitions:
gummiboot remove
efibootmgr
[0000: Windows Boot Manager
[0001: Arch Linux
[0002: AHCI HDJ...
[0003: AHCI ST...
exit
umount /mnt/{boot,home,}
reboot
Now I booted into a black screen with white text which said something "Reboot and select proper Boot device"
=> Inserted Win 7 64-bit DVD, repaired the boot sector. Rebooted, saw I had these entries again:
Windows Boot Manager
AHCI HDJ... (hard drive 1)
AHCI ST... (hard drive 2)
The boot into Windows worked fine. Rebooted, chrooted into my install again and:
efibootmgr
[0000: Arch Linux
[0001: Windows Boot Manager
[0003: AHCI HDJ...
[0003: AHCI ST...
efibootmogr -b 0 -B
Then I used the EFISTUB method:
efibootmgr -c -L "Arch Linux" -l /vmlinuz-linux -u "root=/dev/sdb3 ro initrd=/initramfs-linux.img"
efibootmgr
[0000: Windows Boot Manager
[0001: Arch Linux
[0002: AHCI HDJ...
[0003: AHCI ST...
exit
umount /mnt/{boot,home,}
reboot
On reboot, 'Windows Boot Manager' was again replaced by 'Arch Linux'.
=> Inserted Win 7 64-bit DVD, repaired the boot sector.
Rebooted, I have now Windows Boot Manager + Arch Linux and dual boot works now.
My questions:
What is going on with efibootmgr replacing/deleting the Windows entry? Is there something wrong with my UEFI menu?
In connection with 1., I would like to sync the EFISTUB Kernel (wiki entry) before I run pacman -Syu. Can I do that now?
Can I uninstall gummiboot now?
Last edited by jones (2013-07-11 12:30:55)

henrik wrote:So in light of your post, I decided to ditch EFISTUB + gummiboot and try out GRUB. Thanks for clearing it up a bit. Which is what confuses me a great deal more, as GRUB/gummiboot obviously do not meddle with Microsoft's EFI files. Right?
EFI relies on two things to boot:
Boot loader program files on the ESP (or occasionally elsewhere).
NVRAM entries pointing to the boot loader files.
Your own problems seem to be with the NVRAM entries, not with the boot loader files themselves. Unfortunately, managing those NVRAM entries has proven to be problematic because of bugs in specific EFI implementations, bugs in efibootmgr and other tools that manipulate the NVRAM entries, poor documentation, and other factors.
To answer your question, though, no boot loader should mess with another's files. Such things can happen, though. The number of bugs that cause Microsoft's boot loader (EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi) to be treated deferentially have provoked some tools to use it as a target location for other boot loaders. (Ubuntu's Boot Repair tool does this in a rather overzealous way. So does my own rEFInd installer script, but only under certain narrow circumstances.) Also, the EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi file is a special case; it's the fallback bootloader that's used when NVRAM entries are missing or don't work, and various boot loader installation procedures place copies in that location, so it can be overwritten and could contain just about anything.
However, the whole thing happened again with GRUB. So I did the whole "repairing Boot problems" with the Windows DVD rescue thingy again and deleted all non-Microsoft files from the EFI partition, /dev/sda1.
Then I formatted / (root) and installed arch again and followed the Beginners' Guide which suggest mounting /dev/sda1/ to /mnt/boot (in contrast to the GRUB entry where the ESP should be mounted to /mnt/boot/efi).
I strongly advise against doing a complete re-installation just to overcome a boot loader problem. Instead, figure out what the problem is and fix it. Doing a complete re-installation is not likely to fix anything, and depending on precisely how you do it, you could end up with a more complex problem. The reason is that the re-installation is not likely to erase the NVRAM entries from the old installation, so you could find that you've got additional stray NVRAM entries. If you do happen to fix the problem by re-installing (say, because you selected a different installation option), you're not likely to know what changed to fix the problem, so you could end up in the same boat should you need to re-install again in the future.
But it did not show this line
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
... how come??
I've given up trying to understand GRUB's configuration scripts. You could try creating an entry manually by editing /etc/grub.d/40_custom; or you could forget about using the GRUB scripts and create a hand-crafted grub.cfg; or you could forget about using GRUB at all. I'm not a fan of GRUB, so my personal choice is the final one.
So for all the headache and time ... should I delete the EFI partition and recreate it maybe? I think it's possible using the Windows 7 DVD.
But somehow using efibootmgr on my UEFI list somehow invalidated the Windows entry.
Reviewing your posts, it seems that you want to use the EFI stub loader directly, but you're having problems with that because when you add it to the NVRAM entries, Windows drops off your boot manager's boot options. The obvious solution to this problem is to forget about adding the EFI stub loader directly to the NVRAM entries, and instead add a boot manager that can handle either a Linux kernel or the Windows boot loader. (IMHO, this is the superior solution anyhow; I disagree with the Arch wiki's emphasis on using the EFI stub loader "raw.") It seems you were trying to do this with GRUB but had problems booting Windows. Earlier you tried gummiboot but had problems booting Linux. My suggestion is to either go back to gummiboot and fix its problem or try rEFInd. The "device not found" error you reported with gummiboot is usually caused by either a missing (or incorrectly-specified) initrd file or by an incorrectly-specified "root=" option passed to the kernel. Check those possitilities, and if you need help, report what happens in more detail. If necessary, take a digital photo of the screen and post it here. (Make sure it's legible, though!)
You can try rEFInd with minimal disk by using a CD-R or USB flash drive image. Boot with that and your NVRAM and ESP won't be affected at all. If you can get rEFInd working from the flash drive, you can then install it to your hard disk and it should continue working. Note that you probably won't be able to boot Linux directly from rEFInd with your current configuration without adding a "root=" specification to the kernel command line. You can do this by hitting F2 or Insert twice rather than launching Linux by pressing Enter. Alternatively, you can create a refind_linux.conf file in the directory that holds your kernel. That file's contents are described in the rEFInd documentation.

Satellite L650-19W - No Internet connectivity

I've read through several of the posts on here and it would seem there is a basic problem with Toshiba laptops and WiFi adapters. I have a Satellite L650-19W Part Number : PSK1EE-02C00REN
Last night I finally accepted the BIOS update to 2.10 and WiFi driver update. After rebooting, you guessed, it no internet connectivity. Adapter connects to the wireless network but no DHCP information is retained. I've been to 2 different hot spots now where it used to work and the same happens. So I rolled back the driver. No joy. I uninstalled the adapter. Nope. I ran a registry cleaner and reinstalled (several times, several old versions). Nope.
I booted into safe mode and well, well, the wifi works and connects. So it sounds like a driver problem with some files left hanging around but how I get it working from here I don't know.
Can anyone help?
TIA
Derek

Hello
Why you have updated the BIOS and WLAN driver? Did you have any problems in the past?
I would recommend loading the default settings in BIOS and test it again.
Its strange that it works in safe mode Have you checked the TCP/IP configuration if DHCP is set for WLAN card?

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