Toshiba T2000SX laptop

From: Mark <mark_k_at_iname.com>
Date: Fri May 4 06:25:19 2001

Hi,

I bought a Toshiba T2000SX laptop PC a while ago. This was made in early
1991. 16 MHz 386SX CPU, 1MB RAM on board with another 4MB on plug-in memory
card. Monochrome LCD screen, with VGA port on rear for connection to monitor.

Anyway, there seem to be two problems with it. Other than these, I can boot it
from floppy disk and (just about) read text on the screen.

 - The LCD backlight does not work. Is there a special key combination to turn
   it on? Assuming it is faulty, how would I open up the screen; there doesn't
   seem to be an easy way to do that.

 - The supplied hard disk was a 40MB 2.5" Conner CP2044PK, seemingly
   defective; it made funny noises when powered on. I replaced this with a
   known-good Seagate 500MB drive. Still no luck, that drive is not
   recognised. Perhaps the on-board IDE controller is faulty, or the machine's
   BIOS is hard-coded for certain specific drive types?

Does anyone have any ideas?


-- Mark
Received on Fri May 04 2001 - 06:25:19 BST