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| 133145 | 2003-04-03 09:34:00 | Hi Team You may recall I bought a second hand laptop a couple of months back, It had a fresh installation of W2K from the recovery CD and it is working fine except for one irritating problem. Every time I try to open the control panel, before it leaps into life I get a series of "HCI Load Error" and "SCI Load Error" messages, after which it all works normally. I have searched high and low on the Net and found only one reference, but that referred to a Toshiba Libretto 70CT which wasn't intended to run W2K anyway. The only clues I have is that it could be tied in with THCI.DLL & SHCI.DLL, or it could be associated with Fn-esse which gives extended functionality to the Function key. Can anyone put me out of my misery please? Cheers Billy 8-{) :( |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 133146 | 2003-04-03 11:26:00 | Billy T, I think you may have to reinstall (update) the Toshiba Utilities which are available for your model from Toshiba_Portege (209.167.114.38) just put your product (Notebook) family (Portege & Libretto) and model (3490CT) into the search and it will give the downloads available. Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 133147 | 2003-04-03 22:08:00 | Hi Babe Thanks for your post, it sounds like exactly what I need but that link gives a 404 response, and the IP address in the 404 returns a "not authorised" response. I'd be grateful if you could check the link and update it. Cheers Billy 8-{) [b][pre]I'm not trying to teach you how to suck eggs, but did you know that you can run links from the preview screen to see if they work before posting? |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 133148 | 2003-04-03 22:23:00 | Billy_T My apologies cutting and pasting not up to scratch.... Toshiba Drivers By Model (209.167.114.38) Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 133149 | 2003-04-04 00:47:00 | Thanks Babe, cut right to the chase that time! Now, which darned Utilities am I looking at, and how do I know if they are even related to this problem? I think I can pass on Mobile Extensions, while Power Extensions looks a likely possibility, however the Fn-esse/HWSetup is the one referred to in one post I found that mentions the same error messages I get, but is related to converting a Tecra from W98 . ?:| Read about it Here ( . co . uk/computing/tecra_8100_w2k . html" target="_blank">cspry . co . uk) under Point 7, Service Packs & Security Updates . From the sound of it I actually need to disable the Fn-esse utility, but being a utility, surely it wouldn't be running anyway unless intentionally started to make configuration changes . Mobile computing is so much more confusing than desktop stuff! Cheers Billy 8-{) :| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 133150 | 2003-04-04 01:23:00 | Billy_T, If you were to get the Toshiba utilities then the one labelled "Utility Win 2000 Toshiba Utility (Fn-esse/HWSetup) 1.02.04" P348E2UT.exe (209.167.114.38) was the one. However that reference site you gave from Christopher Spry was very good and his recommendation would appear to be relevant. If you don't want/need the functionality (FN-key/defined keystroke support) then it should be fine. Deinstall the current utilities and go from there. Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 133151 | 2003-04-04 03:51:00 | I'm pleased you thought the site to be of value Babe. I like to think I am quite creative at searching the Net but I tried for hours and hours using both Google and Copernic before finally finding that one useful sounding reference. It would seem that this is a rather obscure condition. I even *blush* posted on the Toshiba Experts Forum but all they could suggest was to reinstall the OS using the recovery CD. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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