Another IT adventure: I still can’t find all the XP drivers for a Toshiba A135 Laptop.
I have this Toshiba Laptop - South American or European Edition.
Model = A135-SP4796
Ever since I downgraded it from Window Vista - Basic Spanish Version, I am having a hard time finding all of the XP drivers. For starters, Toshiba will not help. They have some kind of evil agreement with big Microsoft, not to make it easy for anybody to put XP on it. But I am stuburn, I had Vista. I think Vista is the worst OS that MS has come up with. I do not no many people who like Vista, not even in Big corporate Offices. Everybody is still using Windows XP.
I had started a few weeks ago on this Laptop which belong to my niece. I found some drivers on Hardware Central and Geeks to Go Forums and that helped me to get the Wireless card drivers, The video and eventually the sound to work. Now I am working on it again. I am trying to find the 2 missing drivers:
1) Ethernet Driver - which I can do without as long as I have the wireless working
2) Mass Storage Device - The lack of this prevents me from connecting camera’s USB flash drives or IPODS to it.
Does anybody know who manufactures these 2 parts, The driver has got to be out there somewhere and I will not stop searching until I find it.
Also I hate Toshiba - Curse them for not helping all of us that resist Vista!
I almost put Ubuntu Linux, but thought that my niece who is 12 years old may not know how to use it!
Please post comments below. Thanks!
April 17th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Now I got every driver to work except the mass storage. If anybody needs help, I can take a look at what file is installed under each working driver and I’ll tell you where I got it from. If anybody got the Mass Storage Device - to work, Please do the same.
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I had to reinstall that toshiba yesterday, but before reinstall i backed up all the drivers bucause someone put xp on that one in the past and all the driveres were ok, so I used the backup drivers and all drivers worked except audio and video that I had to download from realtek and intel, but the rest of the drivers worked fine, including Mass Storage Device so if you want them I can send you the backup I made of the drivers, it should work, let me know.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
That would be excellent. If you could send me the drivers, or just post a link to them here. That is ok too. I am just curious, if you go to device manager do you see mass storage device? It may be under USB devices. Does it show the names of the driver files. What are the file names. Somebody also told me that Windows updates has a mass storage driver update that you get after you run windows update for a while and it bring windows XP almost up to SP3 level. I wonder if that is true too.
Thanks in advance.