Toshiba TRO Web News Letter 18th. of January 1999

Toshiba TRO WEB News Letter

	January 18, 1999 Vol. 2.4
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New Files	Questions for the Week	Tip of the Week

This week: Three new BIOSs are here. Satellite 4020 4010 & 2520. The first 2 have corrections in them and the 3rd is for a new machine. Another important file which showed up is a new Win98 Internal Modem driverv2.16K-RC2 56K (Mars) modems. If you are having trouble with your internal DAA modem under Win 98, try this driver. Please check the desc on the web site to make sure you have the right modem.

Tips of the Week: ACPI support in Windows 98

GnomeTIP

This trick is ONLY for power users: I attempted to install ACPI support in Windows 98 the other day... stupid move. I hosed my hardware configuration (which was easily restored by using the "Add New Hardware" applet in the Control Panel). ACPI handles Power Management better than APM (default). Unfortunately, Windows 98 doesn't detect whether your hardware is ACPI-compatible or not. So, next time you do a "flat" install of Windows 98, use the following switch: "/p J" (without the quotes). ACPI support will then be installed. I tried it the other day and it worked (almost) perfectly. I had problems with my Printer port, but that was solved by changing a setting in my BIOS.

NT users should love this tip: Beware the Blue Screen of Death! It's something we've all feared for many years (especially sysadmins). Now, normally, your computer's operations will be halted when the BSOD appears--until you reboot. With this Registry hack, you can force NT to automatically reboot after a BSOD crash! Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > CrashControl > AutoReboot and set the value to "1" (without the quotes). NT will now reboot when the BSOD appears (after appending the crash log file).

These Tips came from Lockergnome to check out this site ( Which I highly recommend )
Lockergnome www.lockergnome.com

The questions below came from our:
Hotline Info System

Most popular Questions of the week & Solutions:	How to install the Toshiba APM for Win98 on a Windows 98 full version
	Message " Cannot connect to BIOS Server"
	Windows 95 Disabling PCI Infrared Port for : Portege 7000, 7010 Satellite 4000C 4020C 330C 305CDS, 310C 320C 4010C Tecra 780CDM/DVD, 8000, 750CDT, 750CDM/DVD Libretto 110CT, 100CT
	Does TranXit 3 work on Notebooks with Tranxit 2.01?

How to install the Toshiba APM for Win98 on a Windows 98 full version

If someone wants to install Windows 98 on a machine without ACPI support he needs our Toshiba APM. It is not possible to install the Toshiba WIN98 APM on a Windows 98 full version because it will search for an older (Full-)version of this application.
This is how to correct this:

In which order should it be installed ?

1. Install Windows 98 full version
2. Install Toshiba APM for WIN95
3. Rename the SPOWER.DRV in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM (otherwise you will receive an error message)
4. Install the Toshiba APM for Win98

Message " Cannot connect to BIOS Server

The message pops up on startup of NT4.0, SP3, Toshiba Utilities

The message is caused by the Hardware Setup of Toshiba not being installed correctly. The HW Setup tries to setup a connection to the BIOS on startup of NT and it fails...

In order to solve this uninstall the Toshiba Utilities first.

Then install the SP3 again and afterwards the Toshiba Utilities again... This should solve the problem.

Windows 95 Disabling PCI Infrared Port for : Portege 7000, 7010 Satellite 4000C 4020C 330C 305CDS, 310C 320C 4010C Tecra 780CDM/DVD, 8000, 750CDT, 750CDM/DVD Libretto 110CT, 100CT

Issue: On some Toshiba computers equipped with a PCI Infrared port, there may be a "PCI Communication Device" under Device Manager | Other Devices section even though the Infrared port is working properly.

Procedure
This is normal under Windows 95.

To remove this item from Device Manager, follow these steps to mask PCI Communication Device in Device Manager

1.Go to START/RUN and enter "REGEDIT.EXE". Press ENTER to continue.
2.From Registry Editor menu, go to EDIT/FIND. Check "MATCH WHOLE STRING ONLY" button. Enter "PCI communication device". Click FIND NEXT button to search for this device in the registry.
3.Change registry key CLASS from "unknown" to "Toshiba Resources".
4.Change registry key "ConfigFlags" from "40 00 00 00" to "00 00 00 00".
5.Save registry and reboot.

Does TranXit 3 work on Notebooks with Tranxit 2.01?

YES, but the following Settings are necessary.

TranXit3 > Setup > Connection
Connection Type: INFRARED > Setup Connection
Infrared Settings > Infrared Device
Model: Generic
Modus:Variable Baud Rate: 115200

SERIAL > Setup Connection

Serial Settings > Serial Connection
Baud Rate: 115200

PARALLEL

Windows95 > Toshiba Utilities > Hardware Setup
Hardware Configuration > Hardware Options>
Parallel/Printer > Printer Port Type > Bi-directional
Setup Connection

Remote Install will not function.

TranXit3 tested with: Tecra 730CDT, 700CT Satellite 200CDT Satellite Pro 400CT

Displaying files new files, sorted by area. All files below are at : www.toshiba-tro.de
New files for the last 10 days.

Name	Description	Size	Date
Area 48 - Hotline
SAT310.EXE	Satellite 300 310 Boot disk for Windows 95 recov	544,027	1/11/99
Area 69 - Modem Archive &Assorted Drivers
1STFONEA.ZIP	Option FirstFone Installation Disk v1.1 Windows 95 Readme.txt included	16,389	1/15/99
1STFONEB.ZIP	Option FirstFone Installation Disk v1.1 Windows NT Readme.txt included	681,614	1/15/99
750MDM98.EXE	Win98 Internal Modem driverv2.16K-RC2 56K (Mars) modems		1/18/99
Area 73 - Free BIOS's
S4020770.ZIP	Satellite 4020 PNP BIOS ACPI v7.70	162,325	1/11/99
S4010770.ZIP	Satellite 4010 PNP BIOS ACPI v7.70	162,325	1/11/99
S2520V72.ZIP	Satellite 2520 PNP BIOS ACPI v7.20 Initial Release Not a Correction	172,351	1/18/99

Satellite 4020 BIOS v7.70 Information for file: S4020770.ZIP

1. A countermeasure was taken against a hang-up problem under ACPI mode of Win98 when going into C3 state. 2. With models using Sharp LCD, the entire screen becomes white when it is set to stand by mode. 3. Hibernation corrected. Hibernation is executed even only once, Hibernation will be executed even though the Hibernation setting was canceled. 4.Some PC cards don't work under Win2000 caused by unmatch of PCMCIA data in IRQ routing table and HW. 5.Suspending / resuming the system under Win95 / Win98 or setting to Display Auto off under Win98 led to all white or all black LCD.

Satellite 4010 BIOS v7.70 Information for file: S4010770.ZIP

1. hang-up under ACPI mode of Win98 when going into C3 state. 2. With models using Sharp LCD, the entire screen becomes white when it is set to stand by mode. 3. After Hibernation is executed even only once, Hibernation will be executed even though the Hibernation setting was canceled. 4. Some PC cards don't work under Win2000 caused by unmatch of PCMCIA data in IRQ routing table and HW. 5. Suspending / resuming the system under Win95 / Win98 or setting to Display Auto off under Win98 led to all white or all black LCD.