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Date Posted: 09:43:32 04/19/03 Sat
Author: mark
Subject: Re: Toshiba Satellite 2805-s402 with GeForce 2 go!

I have the same, and I have not messed with music, but i sure am not impressed, not for the cold hard cash this thing cost. I would never buy another toshiba, this is my second, and for sure the last...

mark



>Hello,
>
>I have the same Notebook as yours and face the same
>problem that you have described. No satisfactory
>technical support from Toshiba either!!
>
>- Daniel
>>Hi!
>>
>>I purchased the Toshiba Satellite 2805-S402 and found
>>it to be a wonderful laptop. Everything was great
>>until one faithful day when I ran Windows Media player
>>and scrolled through a Tcl/Tk documentation web page
>>using Internet Explorer. The computer locked up and
>>froze completely: I had to manually power down the
>>machine. The crash kept happening for me with
>>upgraded Internet Explorer and Winamp (instead of the
>>Media Player). I was running out of options.
>>
>>Toshiba acknowledged the problem and told me to crank
>>down my graphics acceleration almost to nothing (which
>>fixed the problem completely). However, I am not
>>content with this "workaround" since I paid almost 3K
>>for this machine. Toshiba said that they will not
>>provide a video driver upgrade. Now, the reason (I
>>think) this problem is related to video driver is
>>because of 2 things:
>>
>>1) microsoft had the same problem reported against ATI
>>Rage card for which ATI assumed full responsibility
>>and fixed their video driver (search microsoft's
>>knowledge base with key words "lock" "scrolling"
>>"webpage" "hang up")
>>
>>2) cranking down the graphics acceleration to nothing
>>fixes the problem.
>>
>>Now anyone who is buying this laptop model or any
>>other Toshiba laptop with the same graphics adapter
>>(Nvidia GeForce2 Go) should beware of the problems I
>>described here for they are very real. Check what
>>Dave Stanovic from Team Toshiba said in response to my
>>message on the Toshiba's discussion forum:
>>
>>http://go.compuserve.com/toshiba?MSG=1112358
>>
>>For a complete discussion about this, check out the
>>Video section on the Toshiba’s support discussion
>>forum (message title is "sat 2805-s402 locks up").
>>
>>Now, I may be wrong about the real causes of the
>>problem, but at least I know how to reproduce it and
>>Toshiba knows that. But Toshiba refuses to
>>investigate this problem further and continues selling
>>their laptops with useless graphics accelerators that
>>cannot be run at full capacity (or else they cause
>>machine crashes that are deadly to hard drives). I
>>forgot to mention that because of the manual power
>>downs I was forced to do, the hard drive on the laptop
>>began losing clusters. That's right - there is more
>>to this problem than just a simple crash! As I have
>>mentioned before: both of these problems were
>>reproduced and verified by the Toshiba representative
>>Dave Stanovic. You can read all of my mail exchange
>>with him regarding this problem on the Toshiba’s
>>discussion forum in the Video section (try the URL I
>>gave above).
>>
>>Anyways, here it is. If you have a Satellite
>>2805-S402 or any other model with the same graphics
>>adapter, be careful when you are listening to mp3
>>music and browsing the web.
>>
>>Yours,
>>
>>-igor.
>>
>>>I'm looking at getting this computer.
>>>Has anyone seen a review of this new computer?
>>>Anyone have it, wanna do a review?
>>>-Brian

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