[vyper]

What IceFire said.

I used one for work last year during the summer and it would take anything thrown at it, both software wise and literally!

Nice.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by IceFire
A good buy.  Toshibas in my experience are rock solid machines that do what they are supposed to with few problems.

Even the new ones seem to have a good rep so far.  Definately a good buy!

what makes it even better is the fact that i didn't buy it

[Kosh]

Of course, not all computers display processor info at startup. I know none of the ones my family owns does. Best place to look though is in the system properties or system info panels, if bios doesn't display it outright.

All major OEM's have a BIOS setting called "quiet boot" turned on by default. It hides that info from being displayed during POST. I always turn that dumb thing off.

[Stealth]

well i haven't figured out how to do anything outside of windows in this thing.  like, it starts up, and RIGHT AWAY it says "Toshiba" for about two seconds... then it says "Press F2 for boot sequence"... (if you press F2 it takes you to a menu with 'boot from CD', 'boot from disk', 'boot from hard drive', etc. etc.).  if you let it continue, it brings up a black DOS screen with "Password:" at the top.  you have to then type your password.  i haven't yet figured out how to change this.  if you enter the wrong password twice, it shuts itself down.  if you enter the right one, it goes to the windows 98 start screen.  

i remember reading a long time ago that to reset the password (or to change it, or something) you should take the battery out, then hold the power button for 30 seconds, then put the battery back in.  or something like that.  because i'm getting sick of typing "britneyspears" every time i load it up  (previous owner's password )

[MatthewPapa]

Originally posted by Stealth


hell yeah!  we need to go to Netzone one of these days and play there.  it's like $6.00 an hour, but they have comfortable chairs, very good computers, fast connection, it's great  but yeah.  starcraft is probably the only game i can say i'm good at.  been playing it fairly often for over two and a half years.
 

That game is a Classic. I have more hours on that game than many of the other games I play combined. I will have to brush up on my skills a little first as I have not played in a while, but we should play it sometime soon. Where is Netzone? There is a pretty good place called Cyberium near Stratford and Memorial Dr.

[Stealth]

Netzone is on the northwest side, in the Willowbrook AMC 24 parking lot (right next to Willowbrook mall) on 249 and 1960.  

i have to admit, i've been playing a lot of WC3 lately  so i'll need to brush up my skills too .  if you want we could play a few games online, want to hit one up tonight? let me know.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Stealth
well i haven't figured out how to do anything outside of windows in this thing.  like, it starts up, and RIGHT AWAY it says "Toshiba" for about two seconds... then it says "Press F2 for boot sequence"... (if you press F2 it takes you to a menu with 'boot from CD', 'boot from disk', 'boot from hard drive', etc. etc.).  if you let it continue, it brings up a black DOS screen with "Password:" at the top.  you have to then type your password.  i haven't yet figured out how to change this.  if you enter the wrong password twice, it shuts itself down.  if you enter the right one, it goes to the windows 98 start screen.  

i remember reading a long time ago that to reset the password (or to change it, or something) you should take the battery out, then hold the power button for 30 seconds, then put the battery back in.  or something like that.  because i'm getting sick of typing "britneyspears" every time i load it up  (previous owner's password )

[color=66ff00]Personally I'd google for a user manual for your model.

Popping the battery erases the CMOS which is a device that saves all the BIOS settings. It should work but I don't see why it won't let you access the BIOS (Lappy's don't use DEL for the BIOS key most of the time).
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[Stealth]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Personally I'd google for a user manual for your model.

Popping the battery erases the CMOS which is a device that saves all the BIOS settings. It should work but I don't see why it won't let you access the BIOS (Lappy's don't use DEL for the BIOS key most of the time).
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no to erase the CMOS you'd have to pop the backup battery, which is in a screwed compartment.  i'm talking about the main battery.  the main battery runs down on laptops all the time... i'm pretty sure it wouldn't erase the CMOS  or there'd be some pretty pissed off laptop owners

it won't let me access the BIOS, because, of course, it's a Toshiba... and they don't like you adjusting settings by yourself, they want you to call their tech support team, and pay money .

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Was thinking in general terms there so I didn't elaborate when I said battery.

Looks like you press ESC as the machine boots then F1 when it prompts to get into the BIOS on a Toshiba. There seems to be variations on that theme; some using just ESC and some using both ESC and F1 at the same time.

Know the exact laptop model?

Thankfully documentation for my Thinkpad is pretty thick on the ground and it's well supported by Linux.
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[Stealth]

hmmm yeah i haven't really taken the time to mess with the laptop much.  other than installing the PCMCIA wireless network card, and deleting some stuff, i haven't done much, not even change the background!

but thanks for the ESC & F1.  i'll try that in a few minutes, and let you know how it goes