Comments on: Toshiba Satellite 5105. Removing and replacing video board.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:29:02 +0000

Hi, I have a set of recovery disks for the 5105-s607 series. I could make you a copy of them if you are still looking for a set. You can email me at ziven85 AT gmail DOT com, if you’d like.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:43:38 +0000

I have a Toshiba 5105-S607 .. Anyone have the Recovery and Applications/Drivers CD’s That I can either buy them off of you or you can copy them for me? I tried ordering them from Toshiba but they dont have them anymore..

Thanks

By: owen

owen — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:42:04 +0000

Good Day!!
I have a problem with my Toshiba Satellite M50-231,, whenever i turn it on, there a lots of pixels. I tried to connect it to external monitor and the problem still the same,, and the problem is i dont know if My VGA is onboard. or if not how can I replace it!!

Thanks in advance!!

By: Ioccy

Ioccy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:53:54 +0000

I confirm 5105 doesn’t boot XP with 2GB RAM installed (S501 BIOS v1.30), although Memtest+ goes smoothly. The workaround might be installing Windows with no ACPI support, but who needs a notebook without ACPI?

By: lesboucholeurs

lesboucholeurs — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:00:54 +0000

hello..
thanks for your answer.
both video card 5005 and 5105 look the same. and vendor sold me 5005 vid advertising that this videocard can match for both..so i am surprised now.
However, I can not update driver for my tosh 5105.
When I try to start it, there is no boot at all..only few light saying that there is a boot error.
So I guess this is due to wrong video board, but I am not sure.
anyway, I will try boot from CD..and any other advise would be greatly appreciated

By: Weasel

Weasel — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:40:16 +0000

I don’t beleive the video cards on the 5005 & 5105 are interchangable, as they are totally different screens.

There are no new drivers for the gforce 440go. Many other nvidia drivers will work; I’ve tried them all, the one that I found works best is 7.1.8.9. Setup.exe will not work, drivers must be installed manually. Use the one for GeForce4 MX440. However there will be a 3/8″ blank vertical line on the right of the screen. Only the toshiba drivers fill the whole screen. With these driver, I found 3d performance to be better.

By: lesboucholeurs

lesboucholeurs — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:09:10 +0000

short question :
I bought video board for toshiba 5005 thinking this video board can replace defective one of my 5105.
when I placed new video board, my tosh 5105 did not boot at all. so I guess that this is due to new video board. How can i make accept video board of tosh 5005 to my laptop 5105 ? Shall I have to update bios ? if yes, how can I do it ?
thanks in advance for your reply

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:15:45 +0000

I have one toshiba 5105-S901, I cannot get no further than just a screen that say “in touch with tomorrow Toshiba” that only how far I got. On the bottom it showed cd, flopy and some differents icon. I was requested a password.. but I don’t have one.
Can you please make some suggestion.
Any help will be appreciated.. thank you..

By: stelvio

stelvio — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:49:17 +0000

A question for eric burger. Could you please explain the trick for cooling the vga cpu? Did you have the usual strips on the display and the trick solved it?

By: Eric Burger

Eric Burger — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:59:08 +0000

I have a 5105-s607 with long standing video problems. I got a suggestion by someone else to cool the vga chip by running a 0.8mm by 30mm aluminium strip from the vga chipset to the CPU cooler. I tried this yesterday and it seems to have done the trick. I did lots of stress testing (video playblack and some games). No problems. Its easy to do, costs maybe an hour of your time.
Any questions, please let me know.