Toshiba Laptop cmos problem

MonsterPower · Postby **MonsterPower** » June 24th, 2011, 4:09 pm

ok so i have a satellite pro s300 and it says cmos battery is dead or checksum is inconsistant..

thing is before the warenty was up i sent it to toshiba and they said they replaced the battery which worked fine until the problem popped up a few months after ...then they wanted to charge us$400 to fix i said firetruck dem and i used that $$$ and bought a dell netbook .

now i had it lying around and decided since it wasting space if anyone on the forum is familiar with these types of laptops and can help me out .. i not looking to spend alot but if the price is reasonable i will fix it

HCCA · Postby **HCCA** » June 24th, 2011, 4:19 pm

Service manual for that model if u wanna dig up in it:

http://tim.id.au/laptops/toshiba/satell ... %20p10.pdf

Kiro_lee · Postby **Kiro_lee** » June 24th, 2011, 4:23 pm

My understanding with these batteries is that once you match some code on them you can use the normal ones that you can buy at a store or online.

*$kїđž!™ · Postby *$kїđž!™ » June 24th, 2011, 4:29 pm

pm loprofile

MonsterPower · Postby **MonsterPower** » June 24th, 2011, 4:35 pm

might look into intsallation of windows 7 .. vista right now

Bizzare · Postby **Bizzare** » June 24th, 2011, 4:45 pm

pioneer wrote:Sounds like a windows problem

Find the nearest one

MonsterPower · Postby **MonsterPower** » June 25th, 2011, 8:05 am

pioneer wrote:
MonsterPower wrote:might look into intsallation of windows 7 .. vista right now

vista ultimate or nothing

link a bro up nah

MonsterPower · Postby **MonsterPower** » June 28th, 2011, 7:46 am

Anyone know who is the authorised toshiba dealer for trinidad?

I need help locating a replacement motherboard for a satallite pro s300 or a used one to figure out if the one i have here is gone for good .. the link posted above gave me the alternative models as Satellite Pro S300, TECRA A10/S10/P10.

i'd appreciate any help .. couple of cold ones involved

VexXx Dogg · Postby **VexXx Dogg** » June 28th, 2011, 1:16 pm

Check the CMOS connector where the battery attaches to the board. I've seen it happen to a Acer and the BIOS gets screwed.
If you can ensure the battery is properly attached to the board and the BIOS changes are persistent, you can try flashing the BIOS to a new version.
Be careful it does not get FUBAR'ed tho.

-n

Gshock · Postby **Gshock** » June 28th, 2011, 8:40 pm

CMOS Battery CB17 FOR Toshiba Satellite A10

MonsterPower · Postby **MonsterPower** » June 28th, 2011, 9:48 pm

tried reflashing the cmos and it still does nto work ..

i really starting to think the motherboard is causing this

Shooter_boy_J · Postby **Shooter_boy_J** » June 28th, 2011, 10:08 pm

If you took out the cmos battery for too long you can say bye bye to that motherboard!

stev · Postby **stev** » June 28th, 2011, 11:45 pm

Shooter_boy_J wrote:If you took out the cmos battery for too long you can say bye bye to that motherboard!

explanation needed...

btw...people does still use vista? i thought that end up in a museum as the thing that killed the dinosaurs...

Bizzare · Postby **Bizzare** » June 28th, 2011, 11:59 pm

Vista anything is fail. Windows 7 or you're an @sshole.
If you really on a budget, get yourself a copy of XP in the meantime.

stev · Postby **stev** » June 29th, 2011, 12:06 am

Bizzare wrote:Vista anything is fail. Windows 7 or you're an @sshole.
If you really on a budget, get yourself a copy of XP in the meantime.

dont see wat a budget have to do wit gettin a copy of windows

please note that I will never tell anyone how to get a free copy of windows, you will be a pirate and u will have to keep the authorities at bay.

MonsterPower · Postby **MonsterPower** » June 29th, 2011, 7:59 am

stev donno what ur grouse is but i had an older laptop runing win98 and i was happy .. vista wasnt so bad.. try working with dos or win 95

i have used all the o/s from dos right up to win 7 and seriously i dont see what all the hype is ...

btw windows 200 pro best o/s before the bells and whistle of win 7

HCCA · Postby **HCCA** » June 29th, 2011, 8:08 am

Once you install Service Pack 1 for Vista then everything starts to run smoothly. Used it for a few years then migrated to Windows 7 because of DX 11.

VexXx Dogg · Postby **VexXx Dogg** » June 29th, 2011, 8:42 am

MonsterPower wrote:tried reflashing the cmos and it still does nto work ..

i really starting to think the motherboard is causing this

A failed BIOS update can also screw stuff up beyond repair.

Can you identify which hardware device is affected/nonfunctional?
If it's just the system date, you can live with it.

MonsterPower · Postby **MonsterPower** » June 29th, 2011, 9:06 am

the bios update was sucessful so i doubt the bios is screwed

but thing is the error during bootup takes me to bios and when i save and exit it stops bootup right there.. sometimes not even coming in on .