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There is a flash of light that occurs frequently at the bottom of the screen in the taskbar of my friend's netbook (Toshiba NB205-N313/P) around the icon for the Kindle app. I had her take a video of it, and it occurs at 0:03 and 0:04 in this video: https://youtu.be/oNa0GvBKXjw Also, here...

I have a 2009 Toshiba NB205-N313/P that I am upgrading and sending to a friend as a gift. It only had 1GB of RAM and was running XP. So I bought a new 2GB chip and put it in, and installed a new SSD and did a fresh install of Window 7 Pro. The HDD that I replaced was a Toshiba 160GB 5400RPM...

Yes, that's what I meant. I have my dyslexic moments. ;) You were exactly right. It was a BIOS setting. The USB 2.0 Controller was disabled. We just enabled it and we were good to go! Thanks!

The fix was to update the BIOS. But first I had to put it in the fridge for about 15 min. Yeah, I know. Crazy. But it worked. They talk about this fix on the last page of the forum thread that I linked to in my original post. Hope this helps someone!

A friend gave me this laptop, and I want to fix it and send it to a friend who really needs it, but it's not working properly, and it seems to be a known issue with this netbook based on this thread...

My friend has an Asus W3H00V that is not recognizing the USB 2.0 ports in Windows 7. Here is what it looks like in Device Manager: I went to the Asus support website to see if I could download the latest chipset, and the model is not listed: Is there a legacy support website...

A friend of mine keeps getting these crazy errors. Sometimes (around every 5 or 6 times), when he opens an OCR app that he's been using for years, he'll get a message saying that he has to run it with administrative permissions when he "runs it the first time." The thing is, he's been using it...