Win7/Toshiba M200: Anyone gotten wireless and display drivers to work?

As the subject imlies, I'd like to get wireless and display drivers working on Windows 7 on my Toshiba M200. I've had no luck.

If you've had luck with this, please let us know how to do it.

EDIT: I have Beta 1 bits. It runs pretty snappy so far. Installing VS2008 next.

Have you tried "unsupported" M200 drivers for Vista?

BlackTiger said:

Have you tried "unsupported" M200 drivers for Vista?

Please post your experience result. I have M200 as well (somewhere...) and planning to install Win7 on it after release. Now is runs XP. Vista was a complete disaster on M200. But if WinSlevin will run on stupid "netbooks"...

I use the XP drivers from Toshiba website for Intel wireless and Nvidia 5200. they installed and boot fine,  Just don't try to "measure" your system performance. It hung during "checking windows codec".

odarky said:

I use the XP drivers from Toshiba website for Intel wireless and Nvidia 5200. they installed and boot fine,  Just don't try to "measure" your system performance. It hung during "checking windows codec".

I didn't have any problem with display drivers but ended up using a PCMCI wireless card.

Very easy to setup - I used a USB DVD Drive and kicked the process off from there - sweet! (Compared to my abortive Vista install)

Never seen the M200 run so well!

OK so maybe the drivers it picked up aren't 'optimal' but all seems to be running just fine (even measuring system performance runs OK (overall 1!))

Ian2 said:

odarky said:

*snip*

I didn't have any problem with display drivers but ended up using a PCMCI wireless card.

Very easy to setup - I used a USB DVD Drive and kicked the process off from there - sweet! (Compared to my abortive Vista install)

Never seen the M200 run so well!

OK so maybe the drivers it picked up aren't 'optimal' but all seems to be running just fine (even measuring system performance runs OK (overall 1!))

OK, so best place to get a replacement stylus anyone?

BlackTiger said:

Have you tried "unsupported" M200 drivers for Vista?

I don't know what you mean by "'unsupported' M200 drivers for Vista."

The nVidia 5200 driver installed fine, so I'm back to the native 1400x1050.

None of the wireless drivers that I found on Toshiba's support site have worked for me.

Curt Nichols said:

BlackTiger said:

*snip*

I don't know what you mean by "'unsupported' M200 drivers for Vista."

The nVidia 5200 driver installed fine, so I'm back to the native 1400x1050.

None of the wireless drivers that I found on Toshiba's support site have worked for me.

There was a package of "beta" drivers made for Vista+M200 before M200 suddenly became "officially not supported by Vista".
Now that set is removed from everywhere. It's very hard to find.

BlackTiger said:

Curt Nichols said:

*snip*

There was a package of "beta" drivers made for Vista+M200 before M200 suddenly became "officially not supported by Vista".
Now that set is removed from everywhere. It's very hard to find.

If you want my driver set, I can package it up and upload it somewhere. Though it's a bit of a mess that both network drivers and the Intel AC'97 Audio driver need to be installed from Windows Update now, because they removed it from the disk.

By the way, I put a 2.1GHz processor (thanks to some japanese buddy with the CPU stepping tables), 2GB RAM and a cheap SSD in that thing, it's super fast now.

To fix your SD card reader, go to a vista machine and grab C:\Windows\System32\drivers\sdbus.sys and copy that to the Win7 install into C:\Windows\System32\drivers\

The drivers are at ~347.59MB I'll add the link when I'm done uploading.

edit: Here you go: Toshiba M200 Windows Vista Drive..rar

I'm running Windows 7 Build 7000 on 3 different M200's - runs pretty fast even with only 768 MB (mixed 256 Mb + 512MB) or 2 x 256 MB ... (ordered some 1Gb modules nevertheless)
Everything works just fine exept SD Card Reader.
Now try the fix from Dodo ...
One second!
Thanks. 

Dodo said:

BlackTiger said:

*snip*

If you want my driver set, I can package it up and upload it somewhere. Though it's a bit of a mess that both network drivers and the Intel AC'97 Audio driver need to be installed from Windows Update now, because they removed it from the disk.

By the way, I put a 2.1GHz processor (thanks to some japanese buddy with the CPU stepping tables), 2GB RAM and a cheap SSD in that thing, it's super fast now.

To fix your SD card reader, go to a vista machine and grab C:\Windows\System32\drivers\sdbus.sys and copy that to the Win7 install into C:\Windows\System32\drivers\

The drivers are at ~347.59MB I'll add the link when I'm done uploading.

edit: Here you go: Toshiba M200 Windows Vista Drive..rar

Dodo,
Can't find sdstore.sys on my Vista system only sffp_sd.sys but this one also exist in Windows 7 drivers directory.
Can you post this file here separatly?
Thanks.
Alain

Alain Belgium said:

Dodo said:

*snip*

Dodo,
Can't find sdstore.sys on my Vista system only sffp_sd.sys but this one also exist in Windows 7 drivers directory.
Can you post this file here separatly?
Thanks.
Alain

Alain, in my system (M200) the file is called sdbus.sys and swapping the XP for the win7 version does the trick. Dodo, how are you able to copy that file into the directory? Win7 wouldn't allow me to move rename or delete that file? Even from the CMD prompt using Admin?

I finally got it done by downloading and using the TakeOwnership tool (meant for Vista but works well in Win7.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/ 

Wasn't able to get wireless working either....Intel site drivers and toshiba drivers didn't work

Dodo said:

BlackTiger said:

*snip*

If you want my driver set, I can package it up and upload it somewhere. Though it's a bit of a mess that both network drivers and the Intel AC'97 Audio driver need to be installed from Windows Update now, because they removed it from the disk.

By the way, I put a 2.1GHz processor (thanks to some japanese buddy with the CPU stepping tables), 2GB RAM and a cheap SSD in that thing, it's super fast now.

To fix your SD card reader, go to a vista machine and grab C:\Windows\System32\drivers\sdbus.sys and copy that to the Win7 install into C:\Windows\System32\drivers\

The drivers are at ~347.59MB I'll add the link when I'm done uploading.

edit: Here you go: Toshiba M200 Windows Vista Drive..rar

Dodo or anyone plz post the :
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\sdstor.sys
file.

toshiba official vista drivers, not exactly needed in w7 as they conflect but the display driver is alright, unless you want to use the nforce driver in the secod link
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU

things that are worth look at people
http://mobilepcwiki.com/mpc/index.php?title=Toshiba/M200/Windows_Vista_Installation_Notes

as for the wireless card 
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/wlan/?page=downloads
mine is the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 one wich if u want you can find the latest on support.intel.com

so just the sd for now.
someone plz upload the file of find a solution
Thanks

shevron said:

Dodo said:

*snip*

Dodo or anyone plz post the :
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\sdstor.sys
file.

toshiba official vista drivers, not exactly needed in w7 as they conflect but the display driver is alright, unless you want to use the nforce driver in the secod link
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU

things that are worth look at people
http://mobilepcwiki.com/mpc/index.php?title=Toshiba/M200/Windows_Vista_Installation_Notes

as for the wireless card 
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/wlan/?page=downloads
mine is the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 one wich if u want you can find the latest on support.intel.com

so just the sd for now.
someone plz upload the file of find a solution
Thanks

You can download the system file from here.
To replace the file, you might need to change file ownership and permissions to write to the file like described there: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421
You should know that the M200 SD card reader natively only supports SD cards with up to 1GB. The driver adds support for cards with 2GB and they work. However, if you're using boot protection with a key file on your SD card, make sure you're not using a card with more than 1GB. SDHC cards are NOT supported as well.

To get wifi working, simply install the driver form the package, one of the is for the normal LAN and the other for wifi, just install one and then get the current LAN and wifi drivers from Windows Update.

Dodo said:

shevron said:

*snip*

You can download the system file from here.
To replace the file, you might need to change file ownership and permissions to write to the file like described there: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421
You should know that the M200 SD card reader natively only supports SD cards with up to 1GB. The driver adds support for cards with 2GB and they work. However, if you're using boot protection with a key file on your SD card, make sure you're not using a card with more than 1GB. SDHC cards are NOT supported as well.

To get wifi working, simply install the driver form the package, one of the is for the normal LAN and the other for wifi, just install one and then get the current LAN and wifi drivers from Windows Update.

thanks ,, the SD finally works. just replacing the file and restarting.

now if anyone has got a better graphics card driver than modded ForceWare 97.54 driver. please place a link. with w7 aero it seems ok but the screen blinks whenever its doing something,, and the screen doesn't wake up from sleep unless you diconnect/connect the charger then it wakes up as the backlight changes.. yaa also external video doesn't work at all. thanks

shevron said:

Dodo said:

*snip*

thanks ,, the SD finally works. just replacing the file and restarting.

now if anyone has got a better graphics card driver than modded ForceWare 97.54 driver. please place a link. with w7 aero it seems ok but the screen blinks whenever its doing something,, and the screen doesn't wake up from sleep unless you diconnect/connect the charger then it wakes up as the backlight changes.. yaa also external video doesn't work at all. thanks

I have same problems and was not able to resolve it untill now ... anyone a solution?
Thanks!

Am I the only one unable to get secondary screen to work? The screen gets recognized (Dell 2405FPW) and i'm able to set the correct resolution (1920x1200) but the screen stays black and says it is in standby. Also tried another external display without avail.
I've tried many video drivers including the one mentioned above in the vista.rar. And many custom inf's and drivers from laptopvideo2go (97.54, 98.02, 98.16). Automatic rotation does work but for productivity I really need a secondary screen.

Please let me know what driver version you use and if external screens work or not.