Wireless card and bigger hard drive for Toshiba TE2100
I have a Toshiba TE2100 that I am content with except for two things: a) no internal 802.11g b) the small 20Gig hard drive.
Is there an 802.11b/g card that will fit and function in the TE2100?
Does anyone know what the largest hard drive the bios will support?
Toshiba Tecra TE2100 supports an internal 802.11b wireless card. Here are the original Toshiba part numbers for the internal wireless card: V000010820 or P000339520. The wireless card slot is located under the keyboard. Before you buy a new wireless card, I would recommend removing the laptop keyboard and checking if you actually have wireless antenna cables installed. Make sure that the laptop is running the latest version of BIOS; there have been an update for wireless support in version 1.40.
Toshiba TE2100 laptop supplied with 20GB, 30GB, 40GB and 60GB hard drives installed. I don’t think that you’ll see any problem when you upgrade the hard drive. I would say that you can use any newer laptop hard drive, including 80GB and 100GB. From my experience, if a laptop recognizes 20GB hard drive, it will recognize any bigger hard drive. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find any official information for upgrading hard drives in older notebooks.
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:50 pm
have a toshiba satellite p200d series recently just started shutting off by itself…was told before when did this to ise recovery disc and start again, now its beeen a yr and doing same thing but when i try to load disc and hold down c just keeps turning off and never loading, can i do something when it is on or push another key perhaps and what is the disc 2 for can that maybe fix dont know what other info you may need but ty
February 9th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I have a HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop and want to upgrade to a larger hard drive and the largest memory sticks I can put in it. Could you please tell me if there are 500GB hard drives for my laptop and what is the max memory I can put in it? Also, my laptop keyboard is acting a bit strange. When I type some of letters do not show up on the screen and I have to go back and retype them, what would cause this and can it be fixed?
October 18th, 2008 at 11:03 am
dell studio 1535 here, 250gb hdd.
what is the maximum capacity of hdd i can upgrade ?
can i upgrade it to 500gb ?
October 18th, 2008 at 11:01 am
hello, i have just purchased a dell studio 1535 laptop. here are my questions:
1. sim socket is below the battery, i put a sim there, but its not detected by my vista os. what to do ?
2. dell support said i need a wwan card. whats that ?
where i get it in india ? how much will it cost ?
3. do dell provide the wwan card or i have to buy it from MSPs like airtel, vodafone in our country ?
4. there is a wireless round antenna at left side. i never see it lighting even if i enable the wireless module ?
5. at the time of order, i chose wireless n-mini card, does it also detects a/b/g wireless networks ?
i know, i ask a lot q on a single post, but as i am super busy, i had to do this, plz dont mind.
will be very glad if proper answer found of my q.
thx in advance
July 14th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Just installed an Atheros AR5005GS Mini PCI Card. Working Perfectly !!
Specs – 802.11b/g
Just google to find out how to remove keyboard and install the mini pci card. I’ve read on a few sites that it pays to check that you have the wireless antenna cables installed. I found mine neatly taped away below the security cover. Easy to miss!!! Just look for the black and white cables coming out from the monitor. White cable is the main antenna / Black is the AUX. Happy WIFI’ing
Zepp
July 13th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
TE2100 doesnt really need the recovery disks. You should have the window license sticker with you key on the under side of the lappy. Just grab any of your friends windows Cd and throw it in. Use your key on the laptop. Then.. go the toshiba support (www) and download all the drivers and software for your laptop. note: quite a few files to install.
Or just do what I did.. new 80GB Samsung HD and then install ubuntu 8.04 although getting Nvidia GFX enabled and running is not for the technically deficient.
HAve fun !
March 27th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
hi how can u reformat a tecra te2100 do u need to have a recovery cd for it? or is there an OS already in it that you canuse to reformat it? pls repy tnx
November 24th, 2007 at 8:37 am
I need to replace the hard drive in a Toshiba A105 satelite laptop. How do you do this??? thanks for your help.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
George,
I believe you are getting this message because your laptop doesn’t have correct DMI information.
October 29th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I have a Toshiba Satellite M35-s456. The hard drive crashed and I installed a new hard drive, when I try to run the system recovery cd I get a message that says “wrong system” I can see the hard drive and DVD reader in the BIOS setup utility and the boot from DVD is the first item in the list. Do you have any suggestions?
October 1st, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Harold,
Did you install XP from the Toshiba recovery disc or you use generic XP disc?
Make sure you have the latest service pack installed. I believe XP without SP1 or SP2 has limited support for large hard drives and cannot handle partitions larger then 127GB.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I have a Toshiba A105-S2091 laptop. I just upgraded the BIOS to the latest version available from their website and I bought a 250 GB SATA Western Digital internal HD.
After I installed WIndows XP and rebooted, the HD reads 127 GB (with 125 GB available). What’s going on here? Is there another BIOS I must install or am I S.O.L. here?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Jan,
Try using the wireless connection just with one antenna cable (white), it still should work fine. White antenna cable is the main one, the black cable is auxiliary.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
We have a Toshiba Qosmio F25 laptop, which we opened up and installed a new DC-IN harness. (It broke when our daughter dropped the laptop.) As we were closing the case, the LCD fell forward. Bottom line, the black wireless antenna wire broke off from its connector. We tried to solder the wire back onto the connector, but too much solder got into the connector, so the connector is unusable. I’ve been trying to see if the entire antenna can be replaced, but haven’t found anything online. Any suggestions?
TIA…
August 15th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I have a 3 year A75-209 laptop and the internal wireless card will not work. I have the side switch on and have reinstalled the atheros wireless card driver from the CD and nothing. The light is on but the Wireless connection icon on the systems tray is “X”ed out. Any ideas? There has to be a way I can return the wireless settings to its original state.
Thanks in advance.
June 9th, 2007 at 9:12 am
i think mine says ata 5 i see some ata 6 will they work too?