hazel (Toshiba Portege 7200ct)
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Summary
TODO
Notes
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Hardware
| Make | Toshiba |
| Year | 2000 |
| Model | Portege 7200CT |
| Power Supply | 15V DC |
| Processor | Intel Pentium III Mobile - 600 MHz |
| Memory | 320MB SDRAM |
| Ports | VGA |
| Infrared | |
| USB A 1.1 | |
| RJ-11 Modem | |
| 3.5mm Headphone | |
| 3.5mm Microphone | |
| External Floppy | |
| Port Replicator (side) | |
| 2x PC Card | |
| Port Replicator Bus (underside) | |
| Graphics | Trident CyberBlade e4-128 |
| Storage | 16GB mSATA with JM20330 PATA Bridge |
| Display | 13.3" 1024x768 LCD |
| Int. Peripherals | Toshiba V.90 Modem |
| Toshiba DVD Decoder Board | |
| ESS Audio ES1978S Audio | |
| Ext. Peripherals | 10/100 Network/DVD Dock II (PA3007U-1DST) |
| Dimensions | |
| Length/Depth | 24.7 cm |
| Width | 29.8 cm |
| Height/Thickness | 3.4 cm |
| Weight | 1.5 kg (3 lbs 5 oz) |
On Dock
| Ports | DB-9 Serial |
| Parallel | |
| VGA | |
| PS/2 mouse | |
| PS/2 keyboard | |
| 2x USB A 1.1 | |
| Composite Video | |
| RJ-45 LAN | |
| 3.5mm Headphone | |
| 3.5mm Microphone | |
| 3.5mm Line In | |
| RJ-45 LAN | |
| Storage | 3.5" Floppy Drive |
| 6x DVD-ROM SD-C2302 | |
| Int. Peripherals | 3Com 3C905-C 10/100 Ethernet |
| Dimensions | |
| Width | 31.3 cm |
| Depth | 26.3 cm |
| Height | 5.3 cm |
| Weight | 2.68 kg (5 lbs 15 oz) |
Software
| Operating System | Windows 98 |
| Unique applications |
Log
Driver fun (Win 98)
Lots of the drivers are still available from the dynabook support site. However I ran into trouble getting all the hardware to work with Windows 98.
My dock is the "10/100 Network/DVD Dock II" model number PA3007U-1DST. The first issue was the ethernet card. Toshiba lists a "Docker Internal LAN driver", but this is for intel cards in the original Dock. The Dock II comes with a 3Com card, and I was unable to find a driver from Toshiba. However on the Dock II support page there was mention of a "3Com FastEther LAN" driver. This lead me to the NT driver download, but this also doesn't work in Windows 98. Searching for the files in that driver package narrowed it down to a 3Com 3C905C.
What you want is this driver from dell: 3Com 3C905C-TXM Ethernet Adapter (R49958.EXE).
After this I still have one unidentified device, and I suspect it is a DVD decoder card. I tried pointing Windows the the Toshiba DVD Decoder card (under Sound, video and game controllers > Toshiba), but this caused the machine to freeze immediately, or on the next boot. Toshiba has some information on such decoder cards that basically boils down to get the "Configuration Builder CD" because they don't have license to distribute those drivers anymore.
I was unable to find one for the 7000ct series machines, but the article also mentioned one for the Tecra 8000 which is available on archive.org: Tecra 8000 Restore CD. This ISO contains a copy of DVDSoft along with a driver in the folder Manual/DVDSoft. The Readme.txt there has directions for installing the driver. I went this route and forced the driver install. While the install had no issues I still wasn't able to do DVD playback with either DVDSoft or the Windows DVD player.
DVD Playback in Win 9x
While updating the machine specs I noticed the Dynabook spec sheet mentioned "Mediamatics DVDExpress" as the included software with MPEG2 DVD Decode. I found this copy for a ThinkPad 770.
Install was to copy the Programme directory to C:\ drive. Merge the included registry file. Then run the dvd1814.exe updater. After this you I could use DVD Express or Windows' built in DVD Player.
I still have the driver from the previous log entry installed. I'm not sure if any hardware decoding is being done. The CPU sits around 70% utilization during playback, but at least it works.