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Curt Nichols
Curt Nichols
No Silver Bullet
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. Smiley

EDIT: I have Beta 1 bits. It runs pretty snappy so far. Installing VS2008 next.
BlackTiger
BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.
Have you tried "unsupported" M200 drivers for Vista?
BlackTiger
BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.
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"...
odarky
odarky
The more you give, the more you receive...
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".

Ian2
Ian2
Proud to geek ..
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
Ian2
Proud to geek ..
OK, so best place to get a replacement stylus anyone?
BlackTiger
BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.
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.
Dodo
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)
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. Tongue Out

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,
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 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
Dodo
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)
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
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.

How did you get Aero working?  I can't use any of the cool features, like the winkey + tab, and the preview windows from the dock.  Can you get those working?

Thanks in advance.

Dodo
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)
With the driver in the package you already have the best driver, there is no better one, older drivers cause rotation problems or don't work with Aero and newer ones don't work without Aero (and UAC) when the screen is rotated or they don't work at all. Due to a bug in the LDDM shared memory implementation which scales the memory at need for Superfetch caching files and not only running applications or the superfetch cache only, the screen will flicker whenever such scaling takes place on any video card that has less than 64MB GRAM at resolutions with width greater than 1280 or stay completely blank. If you need Aero, use 1024x768 resolution. Also this is the only driver which supports turning the LCD light off when the lid is closed. The light will otherwise never turn off. If for some reason it stays off, you can turn it back on by using the [Fn]+[F6]/[F7] keys for adjusting display brightness. To get external monitor support working, reboot the machine, go into the BIOS option by pressing [ESC] when Toshiba appears on the screen and [F1] when prompted. Make sure the display setting is set to LCD+CRT on the right. Playing video on an external monitor in fullscreen will do some fancy stuff on one of the monitors for unknown reasons if the resolution is set too high. Non-fullscreen mode works fine, but might be slow. Make sure to turn Aero off before enabling your secondary monitor, 32MB is just enough to allocate two screens at 1400x1050 (internal LCD) and 1920x1200 (external monitor).
man, you know your stuff.  thanks for all that info.  I guess my hopes for Aero are dashed, but thanks for the great explanation.

I have everything working, sound, video, etc, except for Aero, and was just wondering about it.

wow dodo, that trick with using a basic theme and changing bios (not sure if that was necessary) did the trick for me! Still Sleep and full screen video don't work but at least I can use my secondary monitor and hybernate. Thanks!
Hi Guys
I'm also testing windows 7 with  the Toshiba Portegé M200
the SD Card reader also supports SDHC cards even with windows XP!
i'm using it with a micro sdhc class 6 card with 8 GB, adapted to SD without any trouble.
 
I also found a working driver for Windows 7  (found it over the VEN/DEV ID and google).
it is called: HP Secure Digital (SD) Bus Driver 6.0.4069.1 2000


Problems i have:
1. At the moment only Sleep dosen't work (Bluscreen) Already known. (problems with the NVIDIA Drivers i Think)
2. If Primary Screen is the Extren Monitor the rotation button Rotates the wrong screen.
3. CrossButton Menu (Windows Mobility Center) or how it is called is Crappy for use with the Cross Button!!
Possible to use the old Cross Menu/ or make it Useable?
4.The Stylus Hover Buttons/ Pen Buttons dosen't work. (can't install the Common Modules from Toshiba wich are for vista (unsupported OS also with compability set to Vista or XP)


Has someone got them to work or is nobody using them ?






Dodo
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)
The SD controller can work in two modes. Hardware (or BIOS) control and software control. When controlled through hardware it supports up to 1GB standard SD cards. When controlled through software, the support for the cards is based on a CPU implementation and impacts the systems performance or battery life when reading/writing data to an SD card. Support for cards larger than 2GB was never planned and even software support for 'large' standard cards was experimental.

1. If you used the drivers I linked, you shouldn't have bluescreen problems. Check your hardware and memory for defects.
2. You can change the screen that's being rotated, if the display mode is set to LCD+CRT in the BIOS.
3. The navigation button should still work, even without a driver.
4. The pen buttons on the right of the display are not supported by the common modules for Vista. Currently I'm running XP on that tablet, I'll look some time when I'm reinstalling 7 on it how I can make them work. I never really needed them, so maybe I forgot.

@Curt Nichols: Copying the drivers onto an USB pen drive or external hard drive and installing the from there works very well, too. Intel's wifi and NIC drivers are in the package. Though, you should upgrade them via Windows Update after you got the internet working to enable full support.
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