Toshiba Diagnostic Disk / Tecra A8 DMI Update

[sonicthemouse]

Hi everyone,

I've just upgraded the CPU on my dad's Toshiba Tecra A8 (Satellite Pro A120) and now the CPU fan runs at full speed all the time.

This is apparently due to the DMI entries missing (and they did all come up as 00000000 in one utility I used to check them).

There is a free "DMI Update Utility" on Toshiba's website, but it doesn't work with this model

Apparently I can modify the DMI entries with the "Toshiba Diagnostics Disk" that came with "Toshiba Tech Tips".

I'm desparate, as it is the laptop is unusably loud and it wouldn't be right to sell it in this state. And I want to avoid going to an Authorised Service Centre at all costs.

Come on OCAU, someone out there must be a retired Toshiba techie who can help me out, or someone must have a workaround.

Thanks

[Jon187]

Downgrade the CPU until you get the disks you need or try Speedfan or the like to lower fan speed.

[sonicthemouse]

Originally Posted by Jon187

Downgrade the CPU until you get the disks you need or try Speedfan or the like to lower fan speed.

Yeah, ended up downgrading the CPU to 32-bit and sticking 3gb of RAM back in it, I'll put the decent parts in my Asus and see if anyone wants to take the Toshiba off my hands for a reasonable price... otherwise it can go to eBay...

[ozzycozz]

Well, after hunting down the M5's diag disk using a bit of trial and error, I thought I might revist your thread (which came up in an earlier Google search) and see if my findings would apply.

I found the test disk i was after from some calculated guesses at the filename.

PTM51x-xxxxx = tem51t1.exe
te = tecra (pretty self explanatory after finding links to other series' test disks)
m51 = M5-1? (i just extrapolated from the PTM51..)
t1 - test? (again, seemed common amongst other test disks)


After looking up Tecra A8's on mytoshiba.com.au download page, PTA83A-xxxxxx - applying the above:

te -
a83 (no a on the end since they're just the regions afaik, e.g. E, europe, A, Aus, U, USA)
t1

= tea83t1.exe

= http://download.toshiba.com/tea83t1.exe >>>>>>>
= http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/cont...ds/tea83t1.exe

Toshiba America Information Systems
Tecra A8 (PTA83x), Satellite Pro A120 (PSAC1x), DynaBook Satellite K15 Series

Test and Diagnostics v1.40
*** Option 2, "Repair initial config set", must be run whenever the CPU or the system board is replaced ***
*** Use a 1.44MB disk to extract the disk image ***



Note that it's a floppy image so you need to do some work if you want to use it on a USB drive. I've done it for the M5 and works well.

Searching for others will most likely work. The only caveat is that newer test disks seem to be in ISO format for CDs (2007 onwards?) and from what I can see, on another server. Plus they don't seem to use a nomenclature for filenames.

[sonicthemouse]

ozzycozz - mate you are a legend.

I'd given up hope on ever being able to upgrade Toshiba laptops but all is not lost!

Thanks again

[Monty94]

Originally Posted by sonicthemouse

ozzycozz - mate you are a legend.

Agreed. Upgraded the T2300 to a T5600 on the wifes M5 and the disk worked a treat.

Just had to buy a USB Floppy drive

Cheers

[ozzycozz]

Cool, glad that it helped someone else. FYI, if your laptop doesn't have a floppy like the M5 and you don't want to/can't purchase a USB floppy:

1) Use (some program which the name escapes me at the moment - but google should be able to help with this common task) to extract the raw floppy .ima file contents.

2) Use the HP USB Disk storage format tool (I had v2.1.8) to create a bootable flash drive using the extracted contents above as the source (note: seems most of these disks are FreeDOS based. If you try to use a flash drive greater than 2GB, the HP utility will only let you use FAT32 [due to volume limits] and will then tell you the source files arent compatibile FAT32).

3) Copy over everything from the floppy image contents to the flash drive and you should be good to go.


(in addition to helping sonic locate some further disks, the following list might help others looking for the respective disks for their old machine in case of a cpu upgrade. http://lamson.dnsdojo.com/DATALIST/Q-Z-PDF/676.txt)

[spike47]

Hello there

Would any Member on this thread know if there is a link for a Diagnostics program / file for a Toshiba Satellite P200 .

thank you

spike

[mikebryett]

Awesome - just wanted to say that I have been hunting for ages for a fix for my problem and using the info here was able to fix it finally.

I upgraded the CPU in my TECRA M9 laptop resulting in the fan blowing at max speed constantly and was very noisy. Using the file naming convention indicated on this thread I downloaded the relevant diagnostics disk and voila - no more noisy fan

FYI the link for my TECRA M9 disk is http://download.toshiba.com/tem91t1.exe

Used a floppy drive emulator to extract the files, made a bootable flash drive using a HP utility http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197

Once booted ran 2.bat and chose option 1 to run the initial config

Thanks guys!

[piranhas]

Hello
I have a similar problem. I was forced to replace the processor. After the exchange appeared the fan speed problem.
Unfortunately I can't find anywhere "Diagnostic Disk Toshiba for Tecra A9".
My model is
Tecra A9-51F
PTS52E-01600RPL

as described above, also failed.
file http://download.toshiba.com/tes52t1.exe not exist

Does anyone know any other way of obtaining diagnostic disc for Tecra A9

[sonicthemouse]

Wow, way to resurrect a really old thread!

Not sure if anyone aside from me even has this subscribed still... maybe PM ozzycozz