General Technology & Troubleshooting Topics

[#1]

Okay, I've come in to posession of one each of both of these and am just about ready to pull my hair out.

1.  How the heck do I get into the CMOS settings?

2.  The L2 came with the hard drive slicked and I would like to load XP on it, but I can't seem to boot from a CD-ROM.  How do I do that?

3.  Where the heck do I find an external video cable?

That should do for now.  I'm sure I"ll have TONS of questions as I get to know these little beauties better!

Thanks,

Curtis McCain

[#2]

Never seen one of those, I think the last Libretto I came across was a 110, although I think I saw someone with a 1100 a while ago.

<Esc> should get you into the BIOS settings at bootup.

Not sure on getting it to boot from a CD drive.  The early USB bootable toshibas were kind of picky about which drives would work (based on porteges of simmilar vintage)

You might end up pulling the drives and installing base windows on a different machine.

No idea on the cable.

there are a bunch of libretto sites out there, but most now days seem to concentrate on installing Linux or FreeBSD.

This is an older one, but some of the links might help: http://www.silverace.com/libretto/

You might send an email to the people at http://www.dynamism.com since they have been importing Librettos all along.

Oh, just remebered, here are the video drivers.

http://www.s3graphics.com/en/drivers/legacy_software_archive.aspx

Actually, since those machines probably came with XP, I bet there's some japanese toshiba site with all of the drivers, but I don't have enough of the language to navigate through.

[#3]

Found out access to the bios is via a setup program.  May have a line on that from a Portege 3110CT.  Hopefully, it'll be close enough to work.

Re:  the CD booting.  I do believe you're correct about it being really finicky.  I think I'll have to do as you suggest and use a "mule" to install the basic Windows install and then put the hard drive back in the target machine.

Found the S3 video drivers on driverguide.com.  Luckily since my Japanese is, to be polite, pathetic!  I even tried Babel Fish and it wasn't much help AT ALL!

Will try dynamism and see what they have to say.

Oh, btw, I believe most of the L series came with ME installed.  Hence my desire to put XP on!

I've arleady checked out most of the English speaking Libretto sites and info on anything past the 110 is sketchy at best.

Do appreciate your come back tho Brad.  Maybe someone else will have a little more experience.

Curtis