Toshiba XP Missing drivers

camroc84

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help. From what I've read over the net this is a common problem. I recently downgraded from Vista to XP and now all my SM Bus controllers and VGA controllers are gone. I've downloaded many different graphic & chipset drivers for my specific hardware but they keep saying setup can't recognise hardware blah blah blah. my specs are:

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional


OS Service Pack Service Pack 3


DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)


Computer Name CAMROC-08B94F0C


User Name Cormac Molloy

Motherboard:


CPU Type Mobile Intel Celeron M, 1866 MHz (14 x 133)


Motherboard Name TOSHIBA Satellite L30


Motherboard Chipset Unknown


System Memory 448 MB


BIOS Type Phoenix (03/05/07)

Display:


Video Adapter ATI Radeon Xpress 200M (RC410M)


3D Accelerator ATI Radeon Xpress 200M (RC410M)

Multimedia:


Audio Adapter ATI SB450 - High Definition Audio Controller

Storage:


IDE Controller AMD PCI IDE Controller


IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller


Disk Drive TOSHIBA MK8037GSX (74 GB, IDE)


Optical Drive MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-850S


SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:


C: (NTFS) 74818 MB (67075 MB free)

Input:


Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard


Mouse Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad

Network:


Network Adapter Atheros AR5005G Wireless Network Adapter (192.168.1.11)


Network Adapter Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC


Modem TOSHIBA Software Modem

Peripherals:


Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer


USB1 Controller ATI SB450 - USB Controller


USB1 Controller ATI SB450 - USB Controller


USB2 Controller ATI SB450 - USB 2.0 Controller


Battery Microsoft AC Adapter


Battery Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery

I'D REALLY APPRECIATE ANYONE WHO CAN CONTRIBUTE! THANKS

dbentham

Visit http://www.toshiba-tro.de and then click on 'driver downloads'

Hope this helps

EDIT: The L30 model can be found under the 'Archive' Product Type, rather than under 'Notebooks'.

camroc84

And what would the driver type be? Sorry to be such a 'noob'!

dbentham

VGA Controller issue should be solved by installing the ATI driver package found at 'Display Drivers' on the above website.

Regarding the SM Bus (chipset) driver, try deleting the one that is already in Device Manager (if there is one.. and even then ONLY if it has a problem depicted by the yellow (!) symbol). Then restart and see if it is found correctly.

camroc84

Yea ive tried all of what you said. When i try to install the display driver downloaded from Toshiba, it says " SETUP cannot proceed because the length of the specified directory path plus the installation folder name exceeds 95 characters.
Please shorten one or both below the specified limit, and try again"

And as for the SM bus controller the option of deleting & restarting doesn't seem to work.

dbentham

Download the ATI driver and then move it to a folder near the top of the C: drive - eg C:\display then run it from there.

Perhaps you could post a JPG image / snapshot of your Device Manager showing the issue(s) that you have. Do this by pressing Alt & PrintScreen together, pasting into MS Paint (found under Accessories Menu in XP) and saving as a JPG. Then use the paper-clip symbol when replying to this post to browse and attach same.

camroc84

Ok dude moving the driver to C: did the job both the SM Bus and VGA are fixed, job done Many many thanks sir/madam!!!

superfish

hi guys Ive recently installed a copy of windows 7 home premium I lost a substantial amount of drivers including my wi fi (what a pain that was lol) ive all them replaced but 1, the ethernet controller I cant find the bloody thing anywhere Ive tried driver fetch and no luck im using a toshiba nb500 1.6ghz atom, 1gb ram, 250gb mem, if anyone could post a link to the driver I need that would be great as need to get this netbook conected to my home network

yoyo

superfish wrote: »

hi guys Ive recently installed a copy of windows 7 home premium I lost a substantial amount of drivers including my wi fi (what a pain that was lol) ive all them replaced but 1, the ethernet controller I cant find the bloody thing anywhere Ive tried driver fetch and no luck im using a toshiba nb500 1.6ghz atom, 1gb ram, 250gb mem, if anyone could post a link to the driver I need that would be great as need to get this netbook conected to my home network

Try this:
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/tc40134500c.exe

I misread which one you had problem with, being the ethernet, try realtek (linked above)

Nick

superfish

yoyo wrote: »

Try this:
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/tc40134500c.exe

I misread which one you had problem with, being the ethernet, try realtek (linked above)

Nick

yoyo I could fecking kiss you ha ha that worked great another small problem im having is the intel (r) graphics media accelerator 3150 keeps crashing basically when the netbook wakes up from sleep mode the screen comes on then gos blank and comes back on with a message saying something like Display driver stopped responding and has recovered

yoyo

superfish wrote: »

yoyo I could fecking kiss you ha ha that worked great another small problem im having is the intel (r) graphics media accelerator 3150 keeps crashing basically when the netbook wakes up from sleep mode the screen comes on then gos blank and comes back on with a message saying something like Display driver stopped responding and has recovered

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19494&ProdId=3235&lang=eng

Try this driver

Nick

superfish

yet again worked like a charm thanks a mil yoyo