Satellite M500 - Doesn't work properly and need general help

Hi, very new to wireless laptop usage. bought a m500. trying to go thru manual is very tiring as cannot distinguish areas. having constant problem with:
using sattelite. walk away for a moment and screen goes black. learnt this is hibernation. should come back by simply touching touch pad or moving mouse. this does not happen. all freezes and have to force shut down. have done this a million times in the past two weeks. contacted supplier as touch pad would not work at all, advise to download drivers but found out simply disabled touchpad in error with button below space bar and "fn and f9" together ables it again. please advise if you can.
toshiba was also contacted and they tried to tell me to do a back up and reset to factory settings as a software issue could be doing this. the only thing we have on this is itunes. all else is standard folders and applications.
also,have never done a back up b4. how long does this take and can you use sattelite whilst backing up.?

Hi chucky,
To be honest your posting is not easy to understand and one information I miss like your operating system.
Theoretically it could be a software problem, maybe a virus or something else so it doesnt make a difference how many programs you have installed.
Satellite M500 doesnt seems to be a European model so I dont know how HDD recovery works exactly but let me give you a word of advice: Just take your Toshiba recovery disk. This disk contains an image for factory settings and with these settings everything should work properly.
In my opinion if you get the advice for restoring factory settings from Toshiba ASP, you should do this! ;)

Similar Messages

  • TS3212 Hi my itunes has stopped working but every time i try to reinstall it it doesn't work properly and asks me if i want to totally remove itunes or replace/repair. I choose replace/repair but it just closes immediately and says it was interrupted...cl

    Hi my itune on my PC  has stopped working and every time i try to reinstall it it doesn't work properly and asks me if i want to totally remove itunes or replace/repair. I choose replace/repair but it just closes immediately and says it was interrupted...does anyone have any clues?

    Hi Shawn and Jason,
    I have the same problem. One workaround is to clean your disk before running LiveCycledesigner. After you have cleaned up your disk LiveCycleDesigner will start a few times and you can work with it.
    It is an Vista problem. LiveCycleDesigner 8.1 which is just released had fixed the problem so you can also download 8.1
    greetings Fons

  • VOD doesn't work properly and customer service sucks!!!

    I contacted Verizon on 5/2 about my problem. I was told there was an outage and it would be fixed within 24 hours. 36 hours have come and gone and still no resolution to my problem, so I call back and I am told it will be another 12 hours or so until the problem is fixed. They tell me there is an outage but when I looked up to see if there were any outages in my area, there were none. Now I feel I have been lied to. I pay good money for the extreme HD package that I cannot fully utilize and no mention of any compensation has been brought up. This is not the first time I have been lied to by customer service. I gave up my Verizon service once due to very poor customer service and went with Bright House whose customer service is far superior to that of Verizon but their product, unfortunately, is inferior. I guess if your product is "the best" around, who needs great customer service. I wonder if Direct TV is any good. Once they get ya into a contract customer service goes downhill.

    Hi chucky,
    To be honest your posting is not easy to understand and one information I miss like your operating system.
    Theoretically it could be a software problem, maybe a virus or something else so it doesnt make a difference how many programs you have installed.
    Satellite M500 doesnt seems to be a European model so I dont know how HDD recovery works exactly but let me give you a word of advice: Just take your Toshiba recovery disk. This disk contains an image for factory settings and with these settings everything should work properly.
    In my opinion if you get the advice for restoring factory settings from Toshiba ASP, you should do this! ;)

  • All of a sudden my track pad doesn't work properly and mouse pointer is jumping all over my screen

    Help, it feels like someone else is controlling my mouse.  This just started happening.  My trackpad doesn't work or works sporadically.  While typing the pointer is scrolling all over my screen.  This is really annoying.

    Great tip! Your suggestion to check for a swollen battery in my laptop is working for me. You should get credit for solving the problem.
    On my MacBook Pro (2008), my cursor was out-of-control for the past couple of days, like it was having a sissy-fit. In TextEdit, for example, I would enter text, but the text would no longer be entered smoothly, in sync with my typing. Nor would the text appear where I wanted it go. Sometimes, the text I was typing, say in the last line of the document, would jump and insert itself somewhere above in the document. Sometimes, entire lines of text, or entire paragraphs, would get highlighted and then immediately deleted upon my hitting the next keystroke. Not an acceptable way to work!
    I tested this odd behavior in Leopard and in Snow Leopard and in Lion, which are all partitioned on my laptop's hard drive. Since I could not isolate the problem to any one version of the Mac OS, I began to fear that my motherboard had gotten compromised and went defective on me.
    Your tip proved that it was merely a swollen battery that was the cause of my problems. I was able to confirm this by removing the original battery (now 4 years old) and placing it on a hard surface. It rocked like a see-saw, ever so slightly, about 1/8-inch to 1/4-inch at the far sides of the rocking motion. When I looked at that original, swollen battery from the side, I got further indication that your insight was likely correct, for I could spy the area where the swelling was occurring: it was at an edge in the middle of the battery, and it was separating from the base by about 1/16-inch, just enough to make me wonder why the "springiness" had suddenly disappeared from the central portion of my trackpad.
    That change in the touch and the lack of aural feedback (i.e. no "click" sound or feeling) when I depressed the trackpad in the central section, was my first clue that something was wrong. The crazy cursor behavior on-screen was further indication that something was amiss.
    I type this reply under A/C power, as the replacement battery, which I had purchased from Other World Computing back in September 2011 for just such an eventuality, is now charging. At first, I was worried that the replacement battery was a dud, for it was stuck on 0% for nearly 10-15 minutes before it began to take a charge. But, 30 minutes of paience has paid off: the replacement battery is now at 15% and getting more powerful by the minute.
    bowlerboy

  • Got my new 3 GS only two weeks go. My Home Button doesn't work properly. Any suggestions?

    malfunction of the home button right from the beginning, when I received it from apple service (Apple Store Covent Garden, London), two weeks ago. The button doesn't work smoothly and needs repeated hard pushes to show reaction

    If you use the search box at the top of this page, you'll find your question has been asked and answered multiple times.
    If after taking the steps mentioned in the numerous posts, bring your phone back to the Apple Store for evaluation.

  • Satellite Pro L20 doesn't work properly with USB Fast Track audio i.f.

    Hello!
    I have used my Fast Track USB on new Toshiba Satellite L40 and I never had problems with it. I could set low latency and I did few songs with it.
    Yesterday I bought another notebook, thinking of home recording studio. It's used Toshiba Satellite Pro L20. It doesn't work properly with my interface. When I listen music on Winamp or do anything on Fruity Loops I hear loud clicks, pops, noises. They introduce samples, or they appear during playback or after a sample is stopped.
    I noticed, drivers for Satellite Pro L20 are a problem. Its not supported by Toshiba anymore?! The only drivers for chipset are very old and you can download em only from Toshiba website. The chipset is ATI Xpress 200M. Its drivers are with graphic card. Recently I noticed you can download "ATI Catalyst Legacy Display Driver for Windows XP - Motherboard/IGP Drivers 9.11" and CRACK IT to make it possible to install on mobile unit such as L20. Yep its funny but its impossible to do otherwise!
    things I have tried and they still not help:
    # drivers replacement, original were released in 2004. I installed recent version.
    # driver settings, low latency, high latency
    # asio and different settings
    # pluging the interface to another usb socket.
    # trying what happens when I use battery and when I use adapter
    # updated bios
    # turned off onboard units such as wifi card, sound card
    # checked IRQ list
    pops still appear.
    my config:
    Toshiba Satellite Pro L20
    Win XP Home SP3
    Celeron M 1,5GHz
    896Mb ram
    M-Audio Fast Track USB, drivers: 6.0.2
    Kind regards

    Thanks for answer. I still have L40 but I try to run my homerecording on L20. The L40 is now used by whole my family. It's possible to swap them but there's a problem - L20 has Norway keyboard and I'm the only person at home who doesn't often look down while typing. In Poland, we use standard ms keyboard. I'd buy special stickers, it's about only to make special chars get back to their places.
    I installed Windows on this computer end set it to best performance possible.
    Since I created this thread, guys from M-Audio support tried to solve my problem - nothing helped. I think potential solutions are exhausted.
    Message was edited by: lidia.pochron

  • Since updating to Mavericks, Mail doesn't work properly.  It just stops working (no error messages--it just won't check for new mail) and I must shut it down and reopen it to get it working again.  Any suggestions?

    Since updating to Mavericks, Mail doesn't work properly.  It just stops working (no error messages--it just won't check for new mail) and I must shut it down and reopen it to get it working again.  Any suggestions?

    Try to force quit the mail app
    Double tap the home button. When you see the app previews on the screen scroll sideways if needed to get the preview in question on the screen. Flick that preview up and off the screen to close the app. Single tap the home button or home screen preview to exit the mode.
    Failing that, go into the settings, mail, contacts and calendars and remove your account info then put it back in and see if that works

  • Some of my application in macbook pro doesn't work properly with Os Yosemite, such as dictionary and  MplayerX and etc

    I face to this problem since new OS, Yosemite has installed on my mac book
    some of my application in macbook pro doesn't work properly with Os Yosemite, such as dictionary (mac dictionary) and  MplayerX and etc
    For example when I make MplayerX and such application fullscreen the screen become white and just voice of video can be heard  or when I use Mac Dictionary (look-up dictionary) in any pages the meaning of work is not appear ( look at the picture above), so i need to directly open dictionary to find the meaning.
    Please help me
    tq

    Same thing here with MPlayerX (annoying)

  • I have an iphone 3GS and I have upgraded it to iOS 6. Since then it doesn't work properly. Every now and then it has been restarting by itself and requiring restore. When I connect it to itunes it restarts again and again. Is there any solution?

    I have an iphone 3GS and I have upgraded it to iOS 6. Since then it doesn't work properly.
    Every now and then it has been restarting by itself and requiring restore. When I connect it to itunes it restarts again and again without letting me take any action. Is there any solution?

    Hey, There are afew things you can try.
    - Simply turn your phone off and back on again
    - Hold down your home button and your lock button and let goes as soon as the screen goes black (Phone will power down) - Then turn on your phone and hey presto!
    - Back up your iPhone to your PC, then restore it..
    this ones last cause I think you may have tried it already..
    - Close all open applications
    Hope this helps!
       Kieran.

  • HT1923 The sync function on my iPod Touch 3rd generation doesn't work properly.  My OS is up to date, but some of my podcasts won't transfer onto the iPod, and it won't delete ones I've already listened to.

    The sync function on my 3rd gen iPod Touch doesn't work properly.  It won't sync all the podcasts I've downloaded, and it won't delete ones I've listened to and deleted on iTunes.

    Close your iTunes,
    Go to command Prompt -
    (Win 7/Vista) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES, right mouse click "Command Prompt", choose "Run as Administrator".
    (Win XP SP2 & above) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/Command Prompt
    In the "Command Prompt" screen, type in
    netsh winsock reset
    Hit "ENTER" key
    Restart your computer.
    If you do get a prompt after restart windows to remap LSP, just click NO.
    Now launch your iTunes and see if it is working now.
    If you are still having these type of problems after trying the winsock reset, refer to this article to identify which software in your system is inserting LSP:
    iTunes 10.5 for Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4123?viewlocale=en_US

  • I am trying to sign in to attend a session and it says 'Invalid user or password. Please try again.' I have reset my password and it still doesn't work. I created a new AdobeID and it still doesn't work. I need to attend this training. How can I get in?

    I am trying to sign in to attend a session and it says 'Invalid user or password. Please try again.' I have reset my password and it still doesn't work. I created a new AdobeID and it still doesn't work. I need to attend this training. How can I get in?

    Sorry to hear about this problem. What site are you trying to log in on? Is it a Mozilla site? Usually you don't need to register or sign in to a Mozilla site to use Firefox. Usually you can just go straight to where you want to go.

  • I imported videos from photo into iMovie when I set up iMovie (obvious mistake) and now iMovie doesn't work properly, nor can I move specific videos into a folder where I want them. How do I fix this?

    I imported videos from photo into iMovie when I set up iMovie (obvious mistake) and now iMovie doesn't work properly, nor can I move specific videos into a folder where I want them. How do I fix this? I even tried deleting iMovie, bought a new copy and installed it, but the folder "iPhoto Videos" is still there and I can't get new clips loaded to iMovie, especially where I want them. Please help.

    The iPhoto Videos do occasionally have problems. I've seen a lot of people write messages to this Discussion group describing similar problems. The only thing that seems to get around this problem is to pull the video clips out of iPhoto then import them directly into iMovie. Once the troubles with iPhoto Videos starts, I haven't yet seen anyone write back with something that they did to fix it.
    The most difficult part of doing this is the movies in iPhoto might be a little difficult to track down. But you can create a smart alum that does that for you. Go to iPhoto > File Menu > New Smart Album:
    Set the first pulldown menu to keyword, second to contains, then in the last box type Movie with a capital 'M'. Then click OK. This smart album more or less does as search of the whole iPhoto Library and only displays items that match your search tearm of "Movie" exactly. In that smart album then you can find the original Movies you want to move out of iPhoto and into iMovie, <CTRL> click on the Movie clip, then choose Reveal in Finder. That will jump you out of iPhoto temporarily and into the iPhoto Library folder. From there you can move that movie file to the desktop. Move all the clips you want, once they're all collected up go to iMovie and go to the File Menu > Import Files. Then point it to the desktop where you moved your video clips.
    This will put all those videos into an Event folder in iMovie and bypass iPhoto Videos altogether.

  • I m using apple mac pc, when we start windows 7 , apple mouse doesn't work properly it take to much time to gain signals from the pc and many times it not work but when we use mac it moves fastly and works properly. please suggest me. thanks ravi

    i m using apple mac pc, when we start windows 7 , apple mouse doesn't work properly it take to much time to gain signals from the pc and many times it not work but when we use mac it moves fastly and works properly. please suggest me.
    thanks
    ravi
    <Email removed by Host>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

    sounds more like Bluetooth rather than moue, but w/o knowing w/o posting mac model type/year we... will... not... know... what you have
    All computers are personal computers, a PC though is also "non-Apple" in common usage.
    Mac also is platform and OS.
    Very confused reading what you are trying to tell us.

  • I am running Windows XP, SP3. I have tried to run Firefox 4 several times but it doesn't work properly. The main page comes up showing the logo, below that is the search box, and below that is another box with nothing in it.

    I am running Windows XP, SP3. I have tried to run Firefox 4 several times but it doesn't work properly. The main page comes up showing the logo, below that is the search box, and below that is another box with nothing in it.

    The external DVD/CD Writer will Not appear on your desktop when you attach it to your iMac.  It will appear in "Finder", which is in your Dock.
    Hope this helps

  • I bought a new macbook pro 13inch retina and sometimes the charger doesn't work properly, I dont know if its the charger or my laptop?

    I bought a new macbook pro 13inch retina and sometimes the charger doesn't work properly, I dont know if its the charger or my laptop? i always have to take the charger in or out for it to work ... -.-

    Apple Portables: Troubleshooting MagSafe adapters
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1713

Maybe you are looking for