Satellite P200 Display is really dim

My P200 is having display problems (very dim screen). It is just over 1 year old (4 days past 1 year) and I am really not impressed. It works fine with an external monitor. I'm hoping this is not an ongoing problem, as I just recently bought a second Toshiba laptop.
From what I have been reading, it seems there may be some problem with the inverter needing to be re-seated or replaced?? Please respond as I am considering getting rid of both laptops now and trying another brand!

I think the sensor is part of the motherboard but cannot say exactly where it could be located.
But as far as I know the JP9 connector (40pin) is used to connect the display.
However, in my personal opinion its not a sensor issue
If something is wrong with display, you might need to replace either, LCD panel, FL inverter or should check the connection from display to motherboard

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I have a problem with installing Display Drivers on Setellite P200-10C.
I install OS Windows XP and can't find drivers for NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600.
On this site there is only windows vista driver. On nVidia official site I have'n found any drivers for this device.
Can you help me?

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-020683.htm has working xp video drivers, Intel 945 express chip set family is the video processor in the Satellite P200. Just for reference the intel video driver worked on my Satellite P200-RT5 part number pspboc-rt508c
The drivers you downloaded from nvidia are likely not working for you because instead of a nvidia or ati, you have an Intel graphics card. You have to try drivers for all three till one of them works.

Satellite P200-RT1 - FN keys don't work after downgrade to XP

Hi
I have a Satellite P200-RT1, PSPBOC.
I have downgraded my operating system from Vista to XP.
Now I am having a driver issue, I have installed all of the drivers for my computer. I have installed all of the HotKey utilities for my computer as well and I still have an issue. Some of my FN Key functions don't work. The ESC to F5 Functions work but all of the functions above there do not.
I am really looking for the Display Brightness and Dimmer keys F6&F7 to work, if possible I would also like the F9 key touch pad enable/disable key to work as well, which as of right now they don't.
I was wondering if there is a driver that I am missing and if so which driver is it. I have taken my computer into three computer shops now and no one can figure this out. Please Help ME!
Thanks Ken.

Hello
It seems that your notebook is a Canadian model and therefore you can download the drivers on the Toshiba Canada website:
http://www.toshiba.ca
The problem is that I cant find Windows XP drivers on this website. :(
The only way I know is that you try the drivers and utilities from the European website. Normally the models are very similar and maybe it works. Its worth a try.
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com => Support & Downloads => Download Drivers
Try to download and install Toshiba Accessibility and Controls (Driver).
Greets

Satellite P200-123 No Post, but still boots

Hi
Have a strange one, my 2 year old Satellite P200-123 was running extremely hot (70 idle over 100 on load) so stripped it down and replaced the thermal grease, fans and cleaned it up. The standard maintenance went fine, (apart from the Microphone plug disintegrating on removal, but I use a headset so not really an issue).
On first boot after the maintenance I noticed the screen does not display anything until the windows log in screen, no toshiba screen, no post messages etc. At first I thought it may have defaulted to an external port (VGA or HDMI) however I have tried connecting it up to an external device and it still refuses to show anything before the windows log on screen.
I have stripped and repaired hundreds of laptops (it's my job) but never encountered this in 15 years of PC and Laptop repairs and maintenance. The system is running Windows 7 (not like that should make any difference) and the thermal grease used was the new Artic MX-3 and was used on the GPU, CPU and Northbridge (and before anyone says you need to use the toshiba ceramic non pressure based compound, the stuff I have used here is better for this then the toshiba recommended stuff, trust me). The system runs fine (now idling at 39 and 65 on full load), I suppose its not much of a problem, unless I need to reinstall or roll back my machine for any reason, anyone got any idea's on how to rectify this?

For some reason it wouldn't allow me to use the HDMI for checking the output. Plugged it in to an old CRT at work and changed the default view to LCD and hey presto. Not sure why it had defaulted to CRT. Strange. Ah well, will leave this up if anyone ever encounters this again.

After some upgrades on my Satellite P200 cannot use HD-DVD Player

Since I upgraded my PC Satellite P200 (BIOS, Driver ATI HD2600, Package VAP and HD-DVD Player), I can no longer read my HD-DVDs
Error message is: "Unable to send the video to an external device. Please turn off the display device."
I had no problem before the upgrades.
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What happens?
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I installed on my PC (P200-1DE / PSPB6E / OS Vista) proposed TEMPO software.
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- HD DVD Player
- VAP Package
At this time, I try to find the references on the site, but I am surprised ; they are no longer in the "Downloads & Drivers BIOS site TOSHIBA
I downloaded the drivers on my PC.
I can give you the exact references tonight (I write on another PC).
Were there any problems in the proposed updates on the period of November 2007 to the end of February 2008 ...
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Satellite P200-1B6: Sound Driver update fails and HD-DVD Player doesn't work

I have just bought a Satellite P200-1B6 laptop and spent the day installing the updates recommended by the TEMPO program. One of these was a Sound Driver update from RealTek but on running this it fails about 80% of the way through with an error: 'Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !!'.
Now the Toshiba HD DVD player fails to start with an error 'Unable to output the video to an external device.
Please switch your display device by pressing the Fn + F5 keys after ending the application'. I've tried this but it seems to have no effect.
I'm now regretting starting to update the installed drivers. Should I try to rebuild the machine using the recovery discs or is there another solution that someone has found? Or have others found the upgrade works?
Any advice welcome

Last month I upgraded my PC Satellite P200 (BIOS, Driver ATI HD2600, Package VAP and HD-DVD Player).
But after this update, I was no longer be able to read my HD-DVDs
Error message was: "Unable to send the video to an external device. Please turn off the display device."
The problem was much of the update Realtek R1.76 (Realtek Sound Driver - 6.0.1.547 - 20/11/07) currently proposed on the site toshiba.
Indeed, the P200-1DE is equipped with Realtek ALC268 Audio Codec.
The latest update of this codec is R1.89. I downloaded from the site Realtek and it has allowed me to solve the problem.
[http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level= 4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false]
I have no problem since that last update

Satellite P200-1FT: 1680x1050 @ 60Hz not available on external 22" TFT

Hi,
I bought a Toshiba Satellite P200-1FT some months ago (Graphic card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600). I wanted to use a 22" Hanns G HG216DP with its native resolution of *1680x1050px @ 60Hz* as a primary external monitor.
I connected my notebook to the TFT over HDMI. Unfortunately I cannot select this display setting in the Catalyst Control Panel. There is only 1680x1050 @ 30Hz available :(
Has anybody got the same problem? How can I fix it?
Thank you very much,
XeroX

Jayjay is right. Sometimes these issues can be caused by a bad cable, but I doubt this in your case.
Maybe you could try a HDMI 1.3 cable. You can get this in nearly every well sorted electronics store.
I remember that there was an option in the Catalyst control panel. Make sure the "Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolution displays" is unchecked. Helps for high resolutions.

Intel VT in the Bios of Satellite P200-13F disabled?

Hi,
I just bought a toshiba Satellite P200-13F and now I am finding out that the Vitrualization cannot be switched on in the BIOS.
Can anyone tell me if Toshiba is planning to release a BIOS with this feature supported? I want to use the machine for virtualization with XEN.
Thanks in advance,
Michael

Hi people,
I think then toshiba hasnt implented it in the bios yet. Maybe the option is available because the bios images are maybe from a chipset manufacturer but they just didnt enabled it cause they had not implemented all VT routines in the bios to handle the VT-stuff of the Chipset/CPU.
This is just an really wild theory about VT in toshiba laptops and I dont know when they will do it and release a bios where you can enable it.
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Satellite P200 - Microphone has stopped working after Windows 7 install

My Satellite P200 came with Vista Ultimate, the mic worked for a few months suddenly it stopped. I decided to install Windows 7, but mic still does not work.
Any ideas anyone?
I use this laptop to skpe my folks a lot. I can use an external mic fine, but really want my inbuilt one working again.

Hi buddy,
Sounds like its something wrong with your Windows 7 installation if the microphone doesnt work anymore...
I would recommend updating the webcam driver because the microphone is a part of it. You can find driver updates here:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com
I dont know what Satellite P200 you have exactly but if you cant find a Windows 7 driver for webcam, choose another model that is fully Windows 7 supported, e. g. Satellite P300.

Display no longer dims after 3.6.4???

Kind of noticed this throughout the course of the day so I just tested it to be sure and after testing I'm positive that ever since around the time of the update today my display no longer dims.
Screensaver still works fine though. Guess if you're using a desktop this doesn't really matter
but on a laptop you need every ounce of juice out of the battery you can muster.
My overall experience of this update has not been a good one. Not that anything really negative has happened. I haven't encountered the problems other people are but I have found three things in less than 24 hours that indicate to me that this update is vastly different than 3.6.3, which happened to work quite well for me.
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This wasn't so with prior versions of Firefox. At least as of yesterday it wasn't.
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Now that I have time I tested it, and sure enough it is not dimming. The fact is it is no longer dimming but this may not be a Firefox issue at all, but I do know for a fact it was fine yesterday.
I did uninstall a program first thing yesterday before I connected to the internet and Firefox updated so I realize that could very well be the culprit. Either way this is a support forum so I thought I would ask if anyone else has experienced this. If not I can take a likely guess that it's my computer and not the Firefox browser.
Despite these small complaints, at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. I have windows 7 that I have already integrated with the drivers I need that I haven't gotten around to installing yet, but when I do I will happily download Firefox 3.6.3.
In reality I'm glad that Mozilla created an alternative to IE for us. I may not be thrilled with this latest version but I do know there are others that work very well for me. The Linux version on Ubuntu works like a charm too.
In a strange convoluted way I think I may be saying "thanks Mozilla".
== This happened ==
Not sure how often

Mathias,
Thank you for helping me (any so many others) back up and running :)
PS - Allowed my desktop (old pentium 4 running winxp) to update to FF3.6.4 and it worked just fine without the updated iMacros. Not sure what is different between the 2 machines, but figured you might like to have the info.
Tommy

Satellite P200 - HD-DVD on TV

Hello,
I have a Satellite P200 (PSPB6) since 2 months and I do not arrive to read HD-DVD on my TV (Philips 9632D/10 full HD). On the screen of my TV, in French "format video non support".
Do it parameterize the display of the ATI card, and if so, how?
Thank you very much for your help.
Polo

Hello,
I hope I can help with your problem.
I have the same laptop and it did require me to go through the ATI display setup,to get started first plug in your TV via the HDMI cable,double click on the ATI icon in the taskbar.Click on the advanced settings and click on display manager(check to see if your tv shows up in the info box)if it is not detected the click on Display options and tick the button Force TV detection.
Go back to the display manager and see if your tv shows up?If it does then set up the resolution for your television and click apply.I then used the FN keys while pressing F5 to switch the display options to LCD TV only.Hope this is of help to you
D3Xt3R

Satellite P200 (PSPBGA) - Fingerprint and webcam don't work on Windows 7

I am using a Satellite P200 (PSPBGA) and have upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit.
However the Toshiba Fingerprint Utility and Chicony Web Camera Assistant Software both don't work. I have checked and there are no new updates on the Australian website.
Can you please help me out with these two issues?

Hi Boarder
Thanks for your suggestions. I have tried the Vista drivers and the US Toshiba page, unfortunatley neither work.
I went to the Upek website for the bio finger print software which is two fold over the latest version supported by Toshiba for Vista. I'll wait to see if Toshiba bring out a version for Win7 as the one I downloaded is limited, otherwise I am happy to pay approx $15 for the full version.
I really need the webcam to function though. I think the driver is ok, just need the sofware to run the inbuilt camera.
Cheers

Satellite P200: Vista doesn't make a bakup

Hello,
From time to time my Satellite P200 will not make a backup. It gives an error message after almoust 10 seconds.
But when I'm not realy using my notebook it seems that he takes an automatic backup.
To be sure I would like to use Thrue image again with a Sata HD
Anybody having experiance with this???
Thanks
Luc

Hi
I dont use the True image software and therefore I cannot provide any 100% solution for you problem
But Ive goggled a little bit and it looks like an new patch and update is available for Vista support possibly its a software bug and therefore the image creation doesnt work always.
PS; I use the ghost and this software is really a good solution if you want to create the own images.

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This is going to sound like a really stupid question ( coming from someone who used to work in the I.T. industry ) ....
I have seen a lot of mention about '*Bluetooth*' functionality, but *how do i know for certain if my 'lappy' has it*, _*or*_ better still *if it has ever been setup* for it
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im in I.T is well. unfortunately on the box it shows the blutooth sign... it doesnt have bluetooth capabilities. if you need bluetooth you can get attachable usb sticks which come with the software required to make your computer bluetooth accessable. good luck.

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Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite P200-P100 running Windows 7.
A few weeks ago, after a Windows 7 Update, my monitor would not show any image, it would light up, but still no image. Not even the BIOS it would load.
I fixed it by using System Restore using another monitor. The same happened again today, I must have ran the same update, but this time a system restore did not solve it, neither did reinstalling Win 7.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Spre3

Hi
You mean you cannot see anything on the internal nor the external monitor even switching the display output pressing the FN + F5 buttons???
Hmm. in my personal opinion this has nothing to do with the Win 7 update
I mean the Win 7 OS update/installation should not affect the BIOS and you should be able to access the BIOS even if no operating system would be installed on the HDD!!!
So I assume the whole issue could be related to the motherboard issue or some parts placed on motherboard
Did you try this?
Remove the battery and disconnect the AC adaptor
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Then try to power up the unit
If this will not help then the RAM modules should be checked.

Satellite P200 Display is really dim

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