Comments on: Getting inside Toshiba Satellite P20 and P25 laptop

By: IRSHAD TAIHAN

IRSHAD TAIHAN — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:50:22 +0000

@# 85:
Check your DDR-RAM, its beep means RAM hasn’t been working properly.

By: sperk

sperk — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:01:59 +0000

I have a Toshiba Satellite P20-771 that wont load. When i press the power button down, the fans will start up and it will begin to beep 3-4 times later it will just stop, there is nothing on the screen that will give me any clues, even when hooked up to an external monitor. Any clues as to what it might be?

By: Irshad Taihan

Irshad Taihan — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:15:03 +0000

My Toshiba satellite p20 shutdown itself even i checked & clean processor heat sin too yet problem was there. please help me.

By: toshiba would not honor my extended warranty so I am stuck suffering with this

toshiba would not honor my extended warranty so I am stuck suffering with this — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:34:47 +0000

* what not-usb hardware would you recommend to port video from the p25-s607 (windows MCE) to HDMI? at either 720p or 1080p?

I found one gizmo on amazon that people seem to live but I cannot determine if the majority were using the hdmi device from “pc presentations” instead of playing DVDs, and HighDefinition videos (Blooray Rips, matroska x264/aac, etc)

amazon asin B0016SN49Y
Sewell Direct VYH100

although part number SW-9393 is the only match I could find on the sewell direct site

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I have only VGA out and S-Video out on my laptop .. which would be better as source to HDMI?
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I want to run XBMC on the laptop AS the media center. I will install linux if that makes it more responsive.

thoughts other than “buy a media center” ?

By: toshiba would not honor my extended warranty so I am stuck suffering with this

toshiba would not honor my extended warranty so I am stuck suffering with this — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:13:57 +0000

I have a p25-s607

1
What NON-matSHITa DVD burner / drives can I use in the optical drive bay?

1b
is that bay some kind of ‘laptop standard’?

2
can the connection pins/receptacle in the optical drive bay be converted to connect an external PATA- or SATA DVD (enclosure)?

2b
or other ‘slim’ dvd burner?

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I already have a plextor 7160UF [external DVD/CD burner]. It works best with firewire, but also works with USB. I would prefer my burner to live in the optical bay

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3
Having tried all bios settings for USB I cannot transfer files to any kind of USB2 device (high end USB flash drive, USB hard drive enclosure (various chipsets) (a) from USB to USB, (b) from LAN to USB, (c) from HD to USB at write speeds above 20megabits/sec. Using the same devices on another workstation and the speeds jump up to respective maximums. Why is my laptop punishing me with BOTH SLOW LAN transfers and SLOW USB writes?

hope you can help bunches

cheeers

By: blackdragon

blackdragon — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:41:09 +0000

Hello everyone out there can help me please I have an Toshiba Satellite P25-S609 PSP20U-19PS8R)laptop. My kid has tear the serial number off out from the base of our notebook and we lost it long ago. Now I need the serial number from the base of your own notebook, one I have this information from you, then I should be able to locate the parts from Toshiba.

Thanks you and hope to hear it from you.

By: Gerald Dichtl

Gerald Dichtl — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:25:12 +0000

I try to remove the LCD mask from my Toshiba Satellite P20. I already removed four screws above and on both sides, but below, there seem to be two more, just above the hinges. Are these screws or just latches? I think the P25 has two more screws below. Somebody here replayced the display of a P20 (not P25) and can help me. Thanks a lot. Gerald

By: Ray Raper

Ray Raper — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:15:52 +0000

I was donated a Toshiba P20 series laptop. Allegedly working well on dispatch. Now seems to boot up but the screen remains blank. Any ideas?

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:09:59 +0000

Hi
I have a P25-S607 which had a broken AC jack.. I took it to a repair place and after they fixed the jack, the laptop wont boot… when I press the start button, it comes on for a few seconds and you can hear the fans running, and then it just stops. The power button stays lit up but nothing comes up on the screen and none of the drive LED’s light up… I saw some other posts with this same problem when I read through… any idea what the problem could be? Motherboard? RAM? CPU?

Thanks
Dan

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:22:46 +0000

I took the 2 silver screws off the hinge for the display
now I cannot get it open, even putting the screws back in
I can only open about 1 inch.
Any ideas how to get the display open?
Thanks