XP Drivers for Toshiba Laptop [Archive] - Page 2

Mtinervin

April 11th, 2008, 08:45 PM

I have a toshiba satlellite a205-s5804 and I to am looking to go back to XP from Vista but I am having trouble finding the drivers. I called toshiba tech support and as the tech girl said, Toshiba wouldn't be offering support for XP because as she put it "XP is obsolete". I told her that Toshiba should go ahead and offer support because xp is going to be supported by Microsucks till 2010 and that many people who bought systems with vista are switching back. She asked me what my problem was and maybe she could help.. I asked her if she could do anything to make vista not suck so bad. I laughed but she didn't. She said she had my concerns noted in the call log and that she would make sure that they were seen, which means nothing will get done about anything.

I wonder why Microsucks would allow any system to be sold with only 1 gig of ram and Vista, maybe they want to hear people complane about how slow vista is and how bad it sucks. I guess any press is good press even if it's bad. Well any way I need the drivers for XP so I can be rid of this crappy Vista.

lety

April 13th, 2008, 05:21 PM

hi.
i also have the toshiba a135-2246 i never noticed that i was missing a boot disk and now that the laptop has crashed i need it , my problem is that when i called toshiba they told that it was my fault for not noticing that it was missing as soon i bought the comp so i have buy the cd from them for 39.00
plus S&h . So iam wondering would it be possible to get a copy from you.
and does your laptop lock up and crash a lot. I use mine for disabled son and i am thinking following everybodys advice and just put xp on it. do you have vista or did you switch it out

skipmy1

April 14th, 2008, 01:04 PM

Hi all,

I just got a new Toshiba Satellite P205-S6277 Notebook that had Vista pre-installed. I have counted the cost of staying with Vista and it is out of the question to stick with his OS:mad: . I want to revert to XP-Pro:rolleyes: . and was wondering were I can obtain the computable drivers? Anyone have experience with this?:)

Skip

Timbo5115

May 5th, 2008, 09:24 PM

Hello,

I have purchased a Satalite A215-S5837. I am already familiar with vista, and so plan to goto XP pro. However, from the sounds of it, finding drivers for XP for these has proven difficult. Does anyone have a suggestion for this model??

Thanks!

parifs

May 7th, 2008, 12:39 PM

Hi,

I too have down graded my Toshiba laptop A135-2286 from Vista to XP. I have trouble in finding the drivers for XP. I would appreciate if you send me all the drivers. My email id: [edited out by moderator-no personal info, please]

Thanks in advance
Arif

Purhcased the A135-S2386 and spent quite a bit of time downgrading to XP. As many others, I wouldn't have bought it had I known...

This site/thread has been a great help...thanks to all.

One minor problem that I am having:

I have a USB wireless mouse that registers. All button and the wheel work on it, but it will not move the mouse. I'm assuming that the S2386 allows only one device to move the mouse...this is all weird, but nothing really surprises me about this machine.

The Fn-F9 key to disable the touch pad does not work. I have installed the Direct application launch button.zip and there are currently no unknown devices in device manager. No hang ups, etc..the system is stable and working fine.

Has anyone had any luck getting the Fn-F9 button to work to disable the touch pad? Also, any other method that will let me disable the touch pad would be appreciated. I have looked in Control Panel, Device Manager (even uninstalled the device that is the touch pad), and in the BIOS, but there appears to be no way to disable the touch pad.

Thanks

heleno

May 7th, 2008, 01:05 PM

estou precisando do controlador de barramento sm, alguem pode me ajuar

edhe62

May 7th, 2008, 01:20 PM

My Portuguese(?) is a little rusty, could you post the question in English?

toshiba666

May 7th, 2008, 07:38 PM

Hello All!! Im desperately trying to find the WiFi driver (among others!!!!) for my Toshiba satellite A205 S4577… I know there out there but every path leads me to nowhere, any help would be greatly appritiated

lety

May 20th, 2008, 02:05 PM

estou precisando do controlador de barramento sm, alguem pode me ajuar

this person wants help with the sm bus controller

ra_7164

June 8th, 2008, 12:33 PM

hi
i need toshiba A100-wa1 sound driver and pci driver
please help me

ra_7164

June 9th, 2008, 12:01 PM

there is no one that can help me on this !?
i`m in hurry and this is nessecary
my gf gave me her lap top to change windows but have no drivere and i have to give it back in next 3 days
please HELp

sagher

June 14th, 2008, 07:16 PM

thank you for thas

edmon

June 15th, 2008, 06:32 AM

Hi,
I tryed to download this file but I could not find it. Please can you tell me where or how to download it.

Thanks and Regards
Edmon

I was just wondering wether those drivers worked properly. I own a A135-S4487 and I'm planning to downgrade, installing some (or all) of the drivers you have shared.

I haven't read about the S4467 hardware configuration yet, but I guess it is quite close to the S4487's. Anyway, if anyone knows about anything that could bring me any troube, please, warn/advise me.

I hope I'm not asking too much.

Sorry, my written English is not that good. I'm from Brazil.

Thanks a lot.

dagored

June 15th, 2008, 09:58 PM

2 questions. Do you still have the Toshiba A135 XP drivers from you Dec 2007 post? Do you still need a copy of XP?

edmon

June 16th, 2008, 03:56 AM

Hi,

I don't have any drivers for Toshiba A135 XP . I am looking for those drivers. (There was a link to them but in the link there is no file).

Best Regards
Edmon

2 questions. Do you still have the Toshiba A135 XP drivers from you Dec 2007 post? Do you still need a copy of XP?

jubair135

June 22nd, 2008, 03:40 AM

I format my pc befor there was vista now xp but i couldn't find driver can u help me where can i get that drivers

model
toshiba satellite u300- 13j

Speedie6

June 22nd, 2008, 05:52 PM

I wanted to thank you for the list of XP drivers for the Toshiba A135-S4487.
The installation of XP and the drivers went very smoothly.
Everything is working great. Again thanks very much.
Toshiba

That's exactly what I got, the A135-S4487. At least that's what it says on the bottom of my computer, but, the toshiba.zip file that was listed in this thread isn't getting me quite everything. Specifically, I'm not getting the either the wired or wireless LAN, or the biometic. The biometric isn't important to me, but, I'd like to get it eventually.

Fortunately, I was able to find the wired LAN driver. It's a Realtek 8101E, and I found it here:

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/realtek-rtl8100.html

Of course, I don't know how long that link will be good for, but I found it from Google.

Now, I'd sure like to get the wireless working, and the ones I've found so far are no go.

Oh, and while the toshiba.zip file does have the Intel chipset and Intel video drivers in it, there are newer ones on Intel's site, so, I used those.

Speedie6

June 22nd, 2008, 07:33 PM

Okay, I found the wireless. At least for my A135-S4487, here is the hardware drivers that I am using:

1. Intel 945GM chipset driver
2. Intel 945 video driver
3. Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG
4. Realtek WDM High Definition Audio
5. Realtek 8101E Gigabit Ethernet
6. Texas Instruments PCIxx12 cardbus controller
7. Toshiba Software Modem
8. Synaptics Touchpad.

That is getting me everything except the biometic, which I'll probably try to dig up sometime, but, not important to me.

If I ever were to go back to Vista (doubt it...) but if I did, I think I'd get these drivers from the supplier, Toshiba seems to stick in extra crap in the ones they ship.

halcon

June 26th, 2008, 06:22 PM

Anyone has managed to find the drivers to downgrade the installed Vista OS to the stable XP (SP2)?
I'll appretiate your experience (may be some others will also).

The_Perho

July 4th, 2008, 12:30 PM

Hello!! I bought TOSHIBA Satellite A305D-S6835. I dont like VISTA but i cant find drivers for xp. If somebody know where can i find them please tell me.
Thanks if u will help me.

vimtoman

July 8th, 2008, 12:47 AM

hi, i was having trouble getting drivers for sound and wireless for my toshiba satellite m115-s3094, till i got to this page so cheers shinma, after weeks of searching i finally got 2 of my drivers...
cheers.

vimtoman

July 8th, 2008, 12:59 AM

hi, disregard the last web addy the intel 945 GM chipset driver can be found at this site http://www.forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/index.jspa

mv.malli

July 8th, 2008, 12:18 PM

Hi Falken..

The Executable file is asking some codes.. what it is? Is it a password?

Please respond.

hi all,

i just finished installing all the drivers for my Toshiba Satellite A200-1cn description (http://www.laptopweb.nl/view_product.php?product=TOS3R9ZD39) and as some of you did,i will post the drivers.
drivers as one exe file
EXE (http://rapidshare.com/files/34833266/Laptop_Toshiba_Satellite_A200-1cn_-_executable.rar)
drivers as folders
folders (http://rapidshare.com/files/34830625/Laptop_Toshiba_Satellite_A200-1cn_-_folders.rar)

I have hosted on more than one share so everyone can download them.
exe
EXE (http://www.mediafire.com/?2cl5e9htn0o)

folders
Folder (http://www.mediafire.com/?5yuvgrqm11m)

I hope that this will help someone .

Best regards

justin jacob

July 9th, 2008, 08:15 AM

I am also trying that only

justin

jonhatch

July 13th, 2008, 11:59 AM

Hi I have a Toshiba Satellite P200 RT1, and I just upgraded from vista to xp i got the drivers for the sound and wireless working but i cannot find ones for the camera and touchpad
please help

shidoran

July 14th, 2008, 11:44 PM

If anyone wants XP drivers for the Toshiba A135-S2386 Contact me, my user name at hotmail. I can send you everything I've got. Everything works that I've found, I've only got one unknown hidden device left.

If anyone can tell me how to determine what that hidden device is, I'd be eternally grateful.

Good luck.

vimtoman

July 16th, 2008, 12:44 AM

hi, try this site for touch-pad driver...http://askiris.toshiba.com/ToshibaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=151249xml&sliceId=&dialogID=46054926&stateId=0%200%2046056226

markmcm83

July 29th, 2008, 11:45 PM

I've gotten everything going (thanks to the many helpful links) except for one thing. I have two unknown devices that show up and I can't find a driver for it. I don't know what it is related to but I can't watch dvd's or listen to music because the sound/video will hang up and then go on for a few seconds then hang up again. any suggestions?

atrobaggio

August 2nd, 2008, 01:38 PM

Hi to all.My toshiba satellite A100-924 after a format with windows xp appears a yellow question mark in sm something.bus driver i thing.Can someone tell me how I can find it. All the other drivers I downloaded them from toshiba website.
Please someone help me.

Shinma

August 7th, 2008, 05:34 AM

... after a format with windows xp appears a yellow question mark in sm something.bus driver ...

Chipset driver.

forbirun

August 11th, 2008, 02:38 AM

Hey guys,
I thought Toshiba laptops were great until a friend asked me to upgrade his laptop from vista to Windows XP. Now Im stuck! THANKS TOSHIBA B_TCHES!!
I have a A200 PSAF0A and cannot find the drivers for:
Mass Storage controller
Modem Device on High Definition Audio Bus
Video Drivers
It would be much appreciated if someone could help me out with these drivers if there are any that is?

forbirun

forbirun

August 12th, 2008, 07:40 PM

Does anyone have an idea? Coz I don't :( Plz help me out with these drivers?

Shinma

August 13th, 2008, 01:13 AM

... A200 PSAF0A ...

Comments listed at the following, LINK (http://www.onestepcloser.co.nz/wordpress/?p=64)

cmounce

September 2nd, 2008, 02:10 AM

Not sure if this has been covered as I couldn't find anything with the search function. I had to reinstall windows xp on my toshiba L35-S2174 laptop. Now my wireless lan card will not work. It worked fine before the reinstall. I have reinstalled the drivers but it doesn't even show up in the device manager. Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks

Shinma

September 2nd, 2008, 07:55 AM

... toshiba L35-S2174 ... wireless lan card will not work...

According to Toshiba website,
That notebook utilizes "Atheros Mini PCI/PCIe Wireless Lan".

... I had to reinstall windows xp ... It worked fine before the reinstall. I have reinstalled the drivers but it doesn't even show up in the device manager...

If you are stating that you had the notebook specifically ordered with WindowsXP, rather than the default Windows Vista, from Toshiba,
You can contact Toshiba for drivers.

DropVista

September 2nd, 2008, 08:52 PM

Hello all! Success! Toshiba does make drivers for XP.... but only for the UK! I just finished loading XP on my A135 --S4677. I spent several months seeing, who hsf XP drivers for Toshiba laptops. Of course Toshiba does, but does not release them to the US market. My research showed that Toshiba still/recently sells laptops within XP and therefore XP drivers. Recently, Toshiba at a US release of, a new BIOS that was for all. OS’s.

So I got a new hard drive, (so I could keep my old one with XP on it for warranty purposes). Then I slipstreamed a new copy of XP, and the Intel; Storage Matrix Manager, Chipset Drivers, and Video Drivers. Used be created slipstreamed XP w/ drivers and loaded that on new hard drive in my Toshiba.. and it booted and ran the first time. Windows found and loaded many drivers, and only two items showed as “Unknown Devices” in XP Device Manager.

For the “unknown devices”, and the devices that were not correct. I used UK drivers from the UK Toshiba website. I had selected two models that were closest to mine in chipset, processor, and display adapters, figuring that Toshiba would not make that many different models. I knew there had to be US models that were close to UK models. So of all the models. I studied two were closest to mine in chipset, display adapter, and processor (CPU).

So after a few rounds of trying various devices (partly following the Toshiba install list). I loaded the device drivers (after first setting system restore points along the way). After restarting my machine several times I finally got it. So all devices are shown as working! Some were out of date, I know, but I also got a few extras that are not offered on US models!

Everything is working great, and I advised everybody to try to Drop Vista! Also, to get at all perfect, Best Buy has Driver Genius on sale for nine dollars $9.99. I ran that and it found most of my out-of-date drivers and corrected them! Trial and effort got the right UK drivers from the two UK models closest to mine.

The only thing that is not working properly is the front or plug-in microphone. It is not a hardware problem, as with the Vista hard drive installed. It works fine, but with the XP hard drive it does not. I have the latest and correct drivers for the sound but it still is not working. Sound works fine, just the microphone does not. I just cannot figure out what is.

I would be greatly appreciative if anybody has any idea of why my microphone is not working in XP. Other than that, a lot research, a new hard r drive, a new copy of XP, a whole afternoon, but now I have a Toshiba laptop with XP, and it runs fast and great!

My Toshiba laptop feels like it should have from the beginning, so give it a try. Again, if anyone has any idea why my microphone and microphone jack are not working now with XP, but to work with Vista…. Please let me know.

Oh yeah cost for XP was $95 with shipping, hard drive was about $60, the rest was just effort and research. I now effectively have two laptops, one with XP one with Vista!

Drop Vista!

nabilalk

September 16th, 2008, 03:33 AM

Hey all, thanks for all your help with the Vista to XP downgrade. Like some others, I am XP is temporarily freezing up, despite all the drivers working properly. The mouse freezes up for 5-8 seconds and is unresponsive. Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? Is it a Intel chipset issue? Also, anyone figure out how to get the Function keys working? Thanks in advance.

-NKA

agentphish

October 10th, 2008, 01:48 PM

DropVista-

I am in Pennsylvania as well, and I have a friend who has been asking me for about 2 months to upgrade their A135-S4677 to XP.

I have a copy of XP I can give them since I no longer use PC's (I'm a mac guy from the beginning) but am unsure of exactly which drivers I will need.

Can you help me out? Please email me... xaqofalltrades (AT) gmail (dot) com if you are willing to help. I have an FTP where you can upload the drivers or host them for you permanently if you wish.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Thanks!!!

Hello all! Success! Toshiba does make drivers for XP.... but only for the UK! I just finished loading XP on my A135 --S4677. I spent several months seeing, who hsf XP drivers for Toshiba laptops. Of course Toshiba does, but does not release them to the US market. My research showed that Toshiba still/recently sells laptops within XP and therefore XP drivers. Recently, Toshiba at a US release of, a new BIOS that was for all. OS’s.

So I got a new hard drive, (so I could keep my old one with XP on it for warranty purposes). Then I slipstreamed a new copy of XP, and the Intel; Storage Matrix Manager, Chipset Drivers, and Video Drivers. Used be created slipstreamed XP w/ drivers and loaded that on new hard drive in my Toshiba.. and it booted and ran the first time. Windows found and loaded many drivers, and only two items showed as “Unknown Devices” in XP Device Manager.

For the “unknown devices”, and the devices that were not correct. I used UK drivers from the UK Toshiba website. I had selected two models that were closest to mine in chipset, processor, and display adapters, figuring that Toshiba would not make that many different models. I knew there had to be US models that were close to UK models. So of all the models. I studied two were closest to mine in chipset, display adapter, and processor (CPU).

So after a few rounds of trying various devices (partly following the Toshiba install list). I loaded the device drivers (after first setting system restore points along the way). After restarting my machine several times I finally got it. So all devices are shown as working! Some were out of date, I know, but I also got a few extras that are not offered on US models!

Everything is working great, and I advised everybody to try to Drop Vista! Also, to get at all perfect, Best Buy has Driver Genius on sale for nine dollars $9.99. I ran that and it found most of my out-of-date drivers and corrected them! Trial and effort got the right UK drivers from the two UK models closest to mine.

The only thing that is not working properly is the front or plug-in microphone. It is not a hardware problem, as with the Vista hard drive installed. It works fine, but with the XP hard drive it does not. I have the latest and correct drivers for the sound but it still is not working. Sound works fine, just the microphone does not. I just cannot figure out what is.

I would be greatly appreciative if anybody has any idea of why my microphone is not working in XP. Other than that, a lot research, a new hard r drive, a new copy of XP, a whole afternoon, but now I have a Toshiba laptop with XP, and it runs fast and great!

My Toshiba laptop feels like it should have from the beginning, so give it a try. Again, if anyone has any idea why my microphone and microphone jack are not working now with XP, but to work with Vista…. Please let me know.

Oh yeah cost for XP was $95 with shipping, hard drive was about $60, the rest was just effort and research. I now effectively have two laptops, one with XP one with Vista!

Drop Vista!

nabilalk

October 10th, 2008, 02:38 PM

agentphish

October 10th, 2008, 03:04 PM

Since i am a brand new member here I don't have sufficient privilege to PM people yet apparently.

If you can send me an email at the address xaqofalltrades (AT) gmail (dot) com that will work and we can exchange FTP info that way.

Thanks

The other thing you could do is post the driver pack to www.mediafire.com

It's free to sign up, and the links never expire as long as you don't remove the files.

jingles689

October 26th, 2008, 04:40 PM

i have all the XP Drivers for A205-S5804 in a Zip File,email if you need it!
sata ahci controller 2829 driver,marvell yukon 88e8039 lan diver,intel 965 express video driver,toshiba software modem driver,realtek rtl8187b wireless driver,realtek highdef audio....and work with XP!!
jibsnotjobs@yahoo.com

...Hi, if you still have these may I have a copy somehow? I actually had them all once but cannot locate the cd now I saved them on and I very much want XP back....thanks so much in advance =)
Deb :p

DropVista

October 27th, 2008, 01:31 AM

Processor(speed and number), chip set, video chipstet, etc do you have. With that info there are drivers for most everything. What as the model again?

Let me know and I can help you. Provide links to your original model. Did you run INTEL cpu id? That makes it really easy. What about belarc?

All those are free and will giver you the exact stuff you will need.

DropVista!

jingles689

October 27th, 2008, 09:37 AM

Hi
I was able to find ALL of the toshiba satellite a205-s5804 drivers here and they worked perfect.
http://loadingvault.com/search.php?q=toshiba+drivers+vita
:D

Terry

January 31st, 2009, 12:36 AM

nabilalk

January 31st, 2009, 12:45 AM

I have been installing Windows XP Pro SP3 on a Toshiba A135-S4457 (Had Vista on it)since early yesterday. What a challange. FINALLY GOT ALL THE DRIVERS INSTALLED! Bet I have close to 20 hours in it but it is running great now. Gotta finish up installing the rest of the programs I want in it but so far so good. What a nightmare it was

I hear you brother. Did you get all the function keys working? I could not figure out what I needed to install to make those work. There was some Toshiba control utility that was required, that I could not find a compatible XP installation for. If you figured out how to get the Fn keys working (sound, brightness, etc...) let me know how.

Thanks,
nka

VampireHunterG

January 31st, 2009, 04:20 AM

give up on the function keys.

it's a dead end.

they can't do anything that you can't do through control panel or whatever.

DropVista

January 31st, 2009, 07:31 AM

I hear you brother. Did you get all the function keys working? I could not figure out what I needed to install to make those work. There was some Toshiba control utility that was required, that I could not find a compatible XP installation for. If you figured out how to get the Fn keys working (sound, brightness, etc...) let me know how.
Thanks,
nka

Toshiba control utility will not not really do anything and there is no XP workaround. I think that is a Bios thing on Toshiba's? I tried probably a dozen toshiba control utilities and many other Toshiba drivers.

What video chips (display driver) is on your laptop? I got mine to work nearly perfectly with the brightness / contrast settings in the display utility that loads with the display driver. Mine was an Intel Display Driver.

There are also a bunch of utilities that can be made to work depending on the model.

Let me know and I will get you the settings for the display settings depending on which you have.

Oh, and instead of 20 hrs there there is a way to make the install a snap. Like under two hours from bare drive to fully running.

DropVista!

Yossarianus

February 3rd, 2009, 06:56 AM

hullo peeps.

I have a Toshiba satellite A130 Customized and I hate,hate,hate evil vista like none other. Is there any way of making the Fn keys work in XP? It would truly be a blessing. I'm currently using Ubuntu but i'd really like to go back to xp.

cheers!

oh yeah, i forgot

The mainboard chipset is intel 950PM and the videocard is nvidia 7600 go. i should also mention that it's NOT the videocard that's controlling screen brightness. nview under xp and nvclock under linux don't work, although in ubuntu, the fn keys work perfectly.

any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.

DropVista

February 4th, 2009, 03:44 AM

Hello Yossarianus ,

oh yeah, i forgot
The mainboard chipset is intel 950PM and the videocard is nvidia 7600 go. i should also mention that it's NOT the videocard that's controlling screen brightness. nview under xp and nvclock under linux don't work, although in ubuntu, the fn keys work perfectly.
any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.

Fn keys work perfectly in ubuntu. Hmmm. The only way I got anything to work for video settings was with the Intel Video device manager, but you can't with the nvidia manager. So then does ubuntu work at a different level with the hardware?

If it does you might have a direction for someone to make fn functionality in these machines. Real interesting and probably best addressed by someone with ubuntu tech experience. Must have something to do with the layer the ubuntu works with/on. Why would functionality not work with no other drivers in XP, or Linux, but does in work in Ubuntu? Does ubuntu have it's own driver that it works with?

Maybe someone at Ubuntu can explain why. If you asked them that would let us all on to something interesting. Maybe they would want to claim a victory for ubuntu?

My mainboard driver is Intel 945.
What do you use the fn keys for? This is really interesting. Hope you find a way, if so post it on this board and we can all see it. I would really like to know.

Best of luck to you!
DropVista

Yossarianus

February 4th, 2009, 04:05 AM

booyah

Well, I've tried it and it works perfectly in opensuse aswell. Bottom line, linux kicks ***. Shame you can't play as many games under it :\

I currently don't use anything to change the brightness on my screen. I actually *gasp* tried Vista yesterday but it killed my computer. It wouldn't boot. Not even from CD. Nothing. I had to take out the hard disk and erase the entire partition table to get to the bootloader again.

So anyway, taking into consideration that the Fn keys work in vista just after you install the intel chipset drivers, I think this problem could be solved easily by someone with moderate programming skills. Shame I have none.

Also, the fn keys WORK even in BIOS, up until when XP starts loading. Very strange.

Ideas are still much appreciated.

Cheers.

oh, and my mobo is 945PM. Typo

RaverJunpei

February 7th, 2009, 09:22 AM

Yossarianus

February 7th, 2009, 10:08 AM

Major Headache! I bought a toshiba satellite A135-S2246. It had vista as every one knows, i put Windows Xp on the laptop instead of vista. just like everyone else i am having problems finding the drivers for everything. if anyone can help plz pm me. or send link to get all necessary drivers. Thanx

Good riddance, my friend. You can get drivers for everything(get everest and then look for the drivers according to chipset) but you won't be able to control the screen brightness. I've tried for at least two weeks and i asked a lot of people. No help. I'm sure as heck not going back to Vista so that leaves Linux as my only option.

If anyone figures this out, I'll buy him lots of beer! Or her :)

RaverJunpei

February 7th, 2009, 09:02 PM

so i tried the everest thing and to no avial. if ne one has a link to find the drivers that i need pm or post link. thank you.

correction everest has worked has shown me what to search for. found the sound driver installed no sound have tried multiple drivers had hoped this was it. ne suggestions? heres what everest says : Realtek ALC862 @ ATI SB540 - High Definition Audio controller Type: PCI

Link:

edhe62

February 8th, 2009, 01:40 PM

Here's a Link (http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false) to the Realtek Hi Def driver page.

RaverJunpei

February 8th, 2009, 04:50 PM

finalll i have my sound back thanx to all that have helped much appreciated.

Yossarianus

February 12th, 2009, 08:15 AM

bump on the hotkeys :\

whiteblazer01

February 17th, 2009, 12:39 AM

I have a Toshiba Tecra A7 (with no restore disk), and it's impossible to find all the drivers for it on the internet. I've been on Toshibas useless website, several other forums, and miscellaneous driver collection websites that won't let you download more than 1 driver per day.

I'm trying to install XP SP3 as well, but should I just install Vista? I don't mind Vista as long as I can get ALL the proper drivers. Any advice? Where can I get all the Vista Drivers? XP Drivers? What else is compatible with the Tecra A7 laptops?

DropVista

February 17th, 2009, 02:22 PM

You can quickly find them by using Driver Genius. Just select that you want to upgrade the drivers. It will ask for which OS you are using, then download the proper drivers for you! I found it on sale there a couple of times (Best Buy) for less than $20. You don't need the 2008 version but will have to get it if the 2007 version is not available.

Failing that send back the Chipset, CPU (processor), Video Card (or system your computer has), and the Model number of your Toshiba.

DropVista

mastertask

February 25th, 2009, 12:07 PM

I went to the realtek website to get my sound to work when I dowgraded from vita to xp sp2

go to

http://www.realtek.com.tw/DOWNLOADS/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

accept the above

choose third down labeled:
Windows 2000, Windows XP/2003(32/64 bits) Driver only (Executable file)

I chose site #1 but I'm not sure it matters
I followed install directions rebooted and my sound works:D

SteveF

February 25th, 2009, 08:46 PM

I think I have a successful way of adjusting my brightness controls in my Toshiba a135 S4467. I will have to watch and see if it stays stable. I figured since the display is a separate chip that once it is commanded to do so the settings should stay. I wanted full brightness all the time and my downgrade made it the dimmest all the time. So I just reinstalled Vista in another partition and then in my dual boot system I booted to Vista and set my brightness controls. When I rebooted to my primary OS, Win Xp Pro, the settings held. So time will tell. I hope that helps some. I didn't read the whole thread so I don't know if this had been suggested before.

mastertask

February 26th, 2009, 01:06 AM

sorry I thought I was adding on to the thread I was viewing earlyer this thread is my solution I found to making the sound work on my tobisha satellite A105 laptop after downgrading from vista to xp pro sp2 I do not know if other people had problems with their realtek high definition sound drivers too but the above url fixd my problem haven't had any trouble with the brightness level but thanx for the input stevef it may help others who have a simmilar problem. though the url above fixed my sound so I ca hear my speakers and use headphones I stll am having problems finding a driver for my realtek modem card if anyone knows a addy it would be most apriciated. driver name:
realtek modem high defnition audio card
thisis a difrent chip than my realtek highdefinition sound driver so the other spot didn't work for both just my sound thank for the input and hope you the best on your system
-- Mastertask

DropVista

February 27th, 2009, 05:12 AM

"realtek modem high defnition audio card
thisis a difrent chip than my realtek highdefinition sound driver"
-- Mastertask

Hi Mastertask! What is the specific Model number of your Toshiba?

Also, did you try the "Drive Genius Pro"? I got mine at Best Buy for $19.00 after I figured it out the slow way. After I got everything loaded I saw how nice it is to use... just finicky.

Because you can select the OS you want drivers for you can run it on a system with Vista and select that you want to know what drivers you will need for XP.

Makes it very easy. But if you want try sending me your model # and the Chipset, Processor, and Video your system has. I will try to assist you.

DropVista!

SteveF

March 2nd, 2009, 05:23 AM

Please tell me more on this and where to get it more info. Are you suggesting on any Vista computer we can get all the drivers we need to run win xp?

edhe62

March 2nd, 2009, 03:22 PM

You should read 6 posts above yours to see what DropVista has to say about the programs capabilities. Follow This Link (http://www.driver-soft.com/) to get the program. :)

SteveF

March 3rd, 2009, 10:02 AM

I have contacted driver genius and ask them if they can give a driver for my function keys and will be curious if they reply. if so I will buy their service

DropVista

March 3rd, 2009, 01:45 PM

I have contacted driver genius and ask them if they can give a driver for my function keys and will be curious if they reply. if so I will buy their service

Hi Steve. Driver Genius will NOT have anything to make function keys work. That is handled by Toshiba. Now the functionality of the Function keys in most cases can be handled by other methods.

For example, my Satellite video function key items are for a large part managed by the Intel Graphics Desk Top manager. Sound volume by the realtek utility, but I lost the plugin capability for a mic. That I have somewhat over come with a USB mic adapter, but the sound volume of the laptop works off the Toshiba volume control on the system.

As I said, most things work great and the system runs very fast with XP compared to Vista. World of difference and would not go back to Vista.

Good luck with everything.

DropVista!

DropVista

March 3rd, 2009, 02:01 PM

Please tell me more on this and where to get it more info. Are you suggesting on any Vista computer we can get all the drivers we need to run win xp?

To get Drivers for about any system just do this....
1. Open Driver Genius and update the program.
2. Now go down to "Update Drivers" and select the OS you want the drivers for no matter which system you have or want to have the drivers for. This will search your system for what it needs and their data bases for the system you want the drivers for.
3. That is it. Down load and install the drivers (after the HD is cleaned or you have a new drive.)

Now I needed to download them twice and often if you don't restart I noticed it will see that it needs them again, so restart to get the system and DG to see you have the correct drivers installed.

Other than that it works great and I wish I had known about the program before I went through the "hunt and install" a year before I did the UPGRADE to XP. But you should be able to get most of the correct drivers.

I did need to go to Toshiba EU for some off beat stuff but found it all there the first time anyway.

Good luck and enjoy XP.

DropVista!

DropVista

March 7th, 2009, 01:31 PM

Sound volume by the realtek utility, but I lost the plugin capability for a mic. That I have somewhat over come with a USB mic adapter, and the sound volume of the laptop works off the Toshiba volume control on the system.
DropVista!

I have now confirmed and tested with Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred that a USB adapter works for Microphone funtionality. I bought a USB microphone adapter and now my Satellite microphone works perfectly.

It was $8 on Ebay. Listed as a 7.1 adapter/sound card. Has a 7.1 channel adapter button, on off button, two buttons for sound volume, and lights for on and off. When plugged in it is USB and uses the XP C-Media USB driver and seems to skip the Realteck driver/device all together.

It works great! So for $8 I solved a problem of what seemed an unfixable driver issue. So after about a year of struggling my Toshiba works nearly perfectly with XP. No major issues left!

Good luck to anyone else who uses this work around!

DropVista

SteveF

March 8th, 2009, 08:25 AM

To get Drivers for about any system just do this....
1. Open Driver Genius and update the program.
2. Now go down to "Update Drivers" and select the OS you want the drivers for no matter which system you have or want to have the drivers for. This will search your system for what it needs and their data bases for the system you want the drivers for.
3. That is it. Down load and install the drivers (after the HD is cleaned or you have a new drive.)

Now I needed to download them twice and often if you don't restart I noticed it will see that it needs them again, so restart to get the system and DG to see you have the correct drivers installed.

Other than that it works great and I wish I had known about the program before I went through the "hunt and install" a year before I did the UPGRADE to XP. But you should be able to get most of the correct drivers.

I did need to go to Toshiba EU for some off beat stuff but found it all there the first time anyway.

Good luck and enjoy XP.

DropVista!

Thanks for the reply's. my XP Pro is working great with no driver conflicts except the function keys for brightness which I found away around to do.

.

codebluehelp

March 13th, 2009, 03:34 PM

After hours of searching for drivers I found that if you goto support.intel.com and run there automatic driver finder tool it will fix video drivers and some of the other missing ones. I have a A135-7406 unit i was hunting these down for and after research I found this method works for a lot of makes and models of toshibas. The one driver I have not yet found its the Modem Device on High Definitions Audio Bus.

Also if anyone needs some help with Nividia Drivers I have an automatic driver finder for them on my site codebluehelp.co.cc/downloads.html
Edit by admin: no contact info permitted on the forum, thank you

edhe62

March 13th, 2009, 04:37 PM

The one driver I have not yet found its the Modem Device on High Definitions Audio Bus.

If it's one of the Realtek units you can go there for the modem driver.

codebluehelp

March 13th, 2009, 04:45 PM

For those still looking for the driver I was I found it in this post

http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/showthread.php?t=180939

It was listed as modem driver and worked great.

gatorback

May 15th, 2009, 02:19 PM

Thanks for the reply's. my XP Pro is working great with no driver conflicts except the function keys for brightness which I found away around to do.

.

Please post the details of the Fn-Brightness workaround. Thanks.

D Hook

June 11th, 2009, 11:04 PM

I'm trying to load XP on my Toshiba but can't figure out how to wipe the hard drive. Can't seem to find a command line to put in the format command. Anyone help on this?

I really NEED to get the XP on here and dump vista.

Thanks!

ELF2000

June 12th, 2009, 06:32 AM

Did you set your laptop to boot from cd first?

Windows XP should give you the option to format the hard drive early in the installation process.

D Hook

June 12th, 2009, 07:54 AM

That's always been my experience but on this one, I set the bios to boot from the XP cd, it loads some drivers and gets to a point and goes blue screen, saying it's stopped the installation to avoid damage to my computer, etc. (I'll get the actual message and post it.) It then stops the install. I've tried three different times and so far no joy. Any suggestions?

D Hook

June 12th, 2009, 07:43 PM

Here's the message:

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Run CHDSK/F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

Technical information:

***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

That's it. This is a pretty much stock Toshiba, haven't done much to it as far as modifications or virus protection because I don't use it that much since Vista is not a pleasant experience. But I think it came loaded w/Norton (not certain) would that prevent a wipe of the HD?

Anyone have an idea what's keeping me from booting from an XP disk? Or have a way to get to C: prompt in Vista that will allow me to reformat the HD?

Thanks!

D Hook

June 12th, 2009, 09:04 PM

Found the problem!

Read on another site about changing the bios.

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156593
3rd post down on page 1.

Went to the bios and changed the raid from AHCI to Compatibility.

Worked fine. Can now boot with the XP cd.

Now going to find all the drivers first before I take the plunge.

Thanks for the help. Hope this little info for getting past the BSOD helps someone else.

ELF2000

June 12th, 2009, 11:08 PM

Thanks for posting your solution D Hook. :)

Glad you got it fixed.

D Hook

June 14th, 2009, 02:29 PM

As a follow up; I got XP loaded and running and all the yellow question marks are gone except for the "Modem Device on High Definition Audio Bus". Anyone know what this is? I'm assuming it's just the phone modem, which I don't really need but would like to have just in case. My sound works fine.

Otherwise, the rest of the drivers were found on the net, a lot of them on the Toshiba web site. Downloading the chipset drivers from Intel first was a big help.

A couple other hitches: Sometimes it gives me a balloon message saying it can't recognize a device I plug into the USB port, like my HP plotter. Been having a tough time getting that one to work at all, though my HP OfficeJet L7590 printer/copier/fax/scanner seems to be just fine using the USB port. I'm using a USB to Centronics parallel cable and have gotten it to communicate once with the plotter but the drawing was incomplete, like it was selective about what data it would take but I believe that to be a driver issue. I'm going to find a USB to serial cable instead and try that. I've never tried plotting to this plotter (HP 750C+) through a USB port before.

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to all the help I found on this forum. You guys are great! Too bad Toshiba couldn't be as helpful.

sumon2241

June 16th, 2009, 09:10 AM

I could not find the ToshibaA135-S4677 VGA compatible video controllar. plz help me to find the drivers.give me the link/URL

D Hook

June 16th, 2009, 10:08 AM

I googled "ToshibaA135-S4677 VGA compatible video controller" and several options came up. (Note spelling on "controller" when googling.)

It will tell you it found nothing that matched exactly but will give you options of several websites on where to download the driver.

DropVista

June 17th, 2009, 02:34 AM

I could not find the ToshibaA135-S4677 VGA compatible video controllar. plz help me to find the drivers.give me the link/URL

i HAVE THE SAME MODEL AND IT USES AN INTEL VIDEO DRIVER. GO TO THE INTEL SITE AND USE THEIR CHIPSET ID (AND OTHER) TOOLS. iT WILL IDENTIFY IT FOR YOU.

ALSO IF YOU HAVE DRIVER GENIOUS IT CAN ID ALL THE DRIVERS FOR YOUR SYSTEM. COST IS $19 TO $29 DOLLARS AND IT IS WORTH THE SAVINGS IN TIME. iT WILL TELL YOU THE EXACT DRIVERS YOU NEED AND GET THEM ALL FOR YOU!

GOOD LUCK AND DROPVISTA!

DropVista

June 17th, 2009, 02:40 AM

Originally Posted by DropVista
To get Drivers for about any system just do this....
1. Open Driver Genius and update the program.
2. Now go down to "Update Drivers" and select the OS you want the drivers for no matter which system you have or want to have the drivers for. This will search your system for what it needs and their data bases for the system you want the drivers for.
3. That is it. Down load and install the drivers (after the HD is cleaned or you have a new drive.)

Now I needed to download them twice and often if you don't restart I noticed it will see that it needs them again, so restart to get the system and DG to see you have the correct drivers installed.

Other than that it works great and I wish I had known about the program before I went through the "hunt and install" a year before I did the UPGRADE to XP. But you should be able to get most of the correct drivers.

I did need to go to Toshiba EU for some off beat stuff but found it all there the first time anyway.

Good luck and enjoy XP.

DropVista!

Thanks for the reply's. my XP Pro is working great with no driver conflicts except the function keys for brightness which I found away around to do.

SHAD1097

July 26th, 2009, 07:28 PM

Ok I sucessfully installed XP Pro SP3 on a Toshiba Satillite A135-4467
Here's what you need to do.

1. Goto the toshiba site look at the laptop spec sheet.

2. Goto intel's site download the 945 media accellerator video driver while your there download the updated inf files for the 945 chipset. Also download the intel pro/wireless 3945ABG driver too and the utility if you so desire.

3. goto www.realtek.com download the mobie/assist RTL 8139/810x wireless driver and download the realtek audio driver.

4. goto texas instruments download the last driver for the mass storage controller. That is a TI XX12 Flash Media Controller.

Done enjoy...

bill_the_viking

October 12th, 2009, 09:23 AM

1st off, i had to register to say a a BIG thank you to EVERYONE who's posted! i'm "updating" a friends Vista Toshiba l300D-10Q to XP as it came loaded with vista. Toshiba make pretty good laptops, and even this basic all rounder is great with the right OS. Which begs the question WHY ON EARTH would they try FORCE their customers to use Vista? Sadly when I put XP on, loads of drivers refused to work. I used a USB stick to put on an antivirus, a decent browser, and the wifi drivers (found on the toshiba website) After that it was a breeze getting the drivers. Apart from 2, the sound card (which i fixed using a link provided on this forum) and the Graphics card.
The sound now works perfectly, THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR HELP

My 2nd (and seemingly everyone's) problem. The ATI Radeon x1200... i've tried several drivers from AIT and toshiba but NOTHING works. It won't even recognise it! Thank god the computer has a decent generic display driver otherwisde this would have been impossible. After using hundreds of genuine drivers said to be for xp, and also modded vista ones (which just caused blue screen) i was about to give up and re-install vista. Then after one more flukey search I came across the working driver!

BOTTOM LINE, my ATI Radeon X1200 is now 100% fully working on windows XP professional! using THIS http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/integrated_mce-xp.aspx?type=2.7&product=2.7.3.3.1.3.2&lang=English

I hope this works for you in the same way it did for me.