Your model in the uk is L series, L300D, PSLC8E, WINDOWS XP 32 BIT OR 64 BIT whichever you are installing. As far as the hard drive, you can also install the sata drivers using F6 during the xp install, or change the bios to read the hd differently. Thats all I have. Good luck.
Sorry for the delayed response. My wife bought a toshiba laptop, and for work reasons, the applications she uses don't work on windows Vista. So I had to load XP. I google'd until I found the uk numbers that represented my US laptop. There I found all the drivers for windows xp. Also, While loading windows xp, you are correct, you have to go into the bios and change it to IDE or windows won't find the hard drive.
"Theoretically DDR-SDRAM provides double the bandwidth of normal SDRAM. At 100 MHz memory clock it's able to supply a data bandwidth of 1600 MB/s, at 133 MHz it goes up to 2100 MB/s. That is why 'Team DDR' decided to call the specs of those two DDR-memory types 'PC1600' and 'PC2100'. However, I have to disappoint you, if you should think that DDR-SDRAM is simply twice as fast as SDRAM at single data rate. The basic reason is rather simple. While DDR-SDRAM is indeed able to provide double the peak bandwidth of normal SDRAM, it has still the same (CL2 DDR-SDRAM) or even a slightly worse latency (CL 2.5 DDR-SDRAM) than its older sibling. The result is that in worst-case situations DDR-SDRAM can be as slow or even slightly slower than normal SDRAM. At the same time DDR-SDRAM can easily outperform single data rate SDRAM under ideal conditions. In average, systems with DDR-SDRAM are most certainly faster than systems with normal SDRAM, but the gain depends on the application and can hardly ever reach more than 20%."
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Are you using a pentium processor or an amd? Pentium is VERY specific about power supplied to it. If the power supply isn't giving the juice it needs, it won't boot. The On/Off of the power supply gives a clue that might be the problem. Especially if you have replaced the cmos battery and re-seated the memory. You said you had the problem years ago. That tells me that the problem has been there, and I would rule out the cmos battery, but it is a cheap fix to replace that first over a P.S.
since he can't get to microsoft he can't read that article, this part is for your situation.
Method B: Make sure that Windows Firewall is turned on, and temporarily disable third-party firewalls Warning This workaround may make a computer or a network more vulnerable to attack by malicious users or by malicious software such as viruses. We do not recommend this workaround but are providing this information so that you can implement this workaround at your own discretion. Use this workaround at your own risk.
To complete this method, follow these steps. Step 1: Make sure that Windows Firewall is turned on To do this in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, follow these steps: To open Windows Firewall, click StartCollapse this imageExpand this image, click Control Panel, click Security, and then click Window Firewall. Click Turn Windows Firewall on or off.
Collapse this imageExpand this imageIf you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or provide confirmation. Click On (recommended), and then click OK. To do this in Windows 2000, in Windows XP, or in Windows Server 2003, follow these steps: Click Start, and then click Run. Copy and then paste (or type) the following command in the Run box, and then press ENTER: firewall.cpl On the General tab, make sure that On (Recommended), is selected, and then click OK. …
You can go to the toshiba uk site and find the drivers. But you have to find what the model number is for your laptop in the uk. Just google it and you should find out without any problems. I install xp on toshiba laptops all the time. I usually just change the communication to the hard drive and install. http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp
I have seen problems like this when there is malware/spyware or a virus blocking access to microsoft. Check the "Hosts" file to see if its being blocked there. Most of the time any basic spyware program will fix this problem, but its always good to check.
Have someone else check the work. Sounds like the lcd isn't seated properly in the bezel, which is why the plastic cracked in the first place. There is probably pressure on the inverter which is causing the white lines across the screen. You could have also had a bad inverter with the old lcd.
I agree it sounds like a hard ware problem, but if there is another reason you want to format the hard drive, take the hard drive out, attach it to an external device, or attach it internally, to a working PC and reformat that way.
Run a Defrag and see if that improves performance. Check Task Manager to see what programs are taking up memory or CPU performance. Delete startup programs. Of course do all of this after you have checked for Viruses / Malware
