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    Please Help I'm clueless

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by 95lloyd, Aug 15, 2008.

  1. 95lloyd

    95lloyd Newbie

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    Ok a friend of mine gave me his old laptop (gf found out he was cheating and wrecked all his stuff lol) My friend thought the laptop was broken because he kept getting an error message on it.

    Now problem is his gf decided scratch the crap out of the back of it in her fit of rage and I have absolutely no clue what model the laptop is all I know it is a Toshiba Satellite and after looking online looks like there are 100's of different models in that range.

    Somehow I have managed to reinstall windows on the laptop but of course it had no drivers. Now by basically hoping to get a hit I have managed to get the PCI controller and graphics card driver but am still missing Ethernet Controller (x2) and Multi media Audio Controller as they all have the yellow question mark thingee in device manager.

    The only things I basically know about the computer are these bits I have managed to pick up


    HD MK4026GAX
    MAT****A UJDA760 DVD/CDRW
    INTEL (R) 8201DB ULTRA
    TOPIC100 CARDBUS

    I also found these numbers in various search flukes.

    Vendor ID 8086h
    device ID 3580h
    device 852 GM/GMV integrated graphics card

    Device 82801 DB/DBL/DBM
    USB UHCI Controller #1
    USB - universal serial bus UHCI

    82801 BAM/CAM/DBI
    Hub interface to pci bridge
    processor 1.50 GHz 240 mb ram



    Now I have no clue if any of that information is helpful but obviously with no ethernet card I have had no luck getting online to find the drivers via the laptop. I've been on my pc downloading random drivers and hoping they are the ones I need without much success.

    My question is, is there some kind of programme I can download to disk that I can run on my laptop that will give me the information I need to know either what modelof laptop I have or conversely what drivers I am requiring to get the laptop up and running again. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    95lloyd, Aug 15, 2008
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  2. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    Go into the BIOS and try to find out the model of the laptop, cause it's a lot easier to locate all the drivers.
     
    stewie, Aug 15, 2008
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    daljeet Notebook Evangelist

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    daljeet, Aug 15, 2008
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  4. 95lloyd

    95lloyd Newbie

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    Thank you guys, was unsure of how to get in bios but doing what daljeet recommended I found out I have a satellite A55 thank you so much guys.
     
    95lloyd, Aug 15, 2008
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    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    naton, Aug 15, 2008
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