Satelite L45-S7423 -- Work with XP?

Has anyone gotten a Satelite L45-S7423 working with Windows XP? I was able to get XP installed, but can't find drivers that will work with the network cards (both wireless and LAN).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

I'm interested on this matter to as I have the same laptop
Can anyone help us????

 

I got it working completely!! I prepared this for a customer at my work and delivered it on Friday.

The toughest part was that XP wont even detect the hard drive w/o SATA drivers. Once I found the driver, the rest wasn't that bad. The cd that comes with it will install most of the other drivers. All except the network drivers. I have everything at work. I'll try to post links early next week.

 

what did you do??how you made it??i have the same laptop but its a hand me down so the cds are missing...vista is slow and sluggish. i tried placing xp cd and it cannot detect HD. i dont know what sata driver to use.pls help....i

 

Please link the sata driver you used. TY ktrones

 

I have it at work, will post on Monday. It's an intel driver. I tried 4 from their site and finally found one that works.

 

Hi Warewolf:

I have a Satellite L45-S7409 I just bought and would like to convert to XP. WIll I be able to use the steps you're going to post on Monday?

Many thanks!
Axia002

 

Hey WareWulf
Can you please post step by step xp installation?

So all drivers are in the recovery discs works?? and only HD and network drivers has to be downloaded???

I only have this Toshiba laptop and I need to make sure everything works and download drivers before I install the Xp

Thanks

 

OMG
i spend the whole day yesterday trying to mnake everything work.
I got left audio and wireless drivers. My xp sees wireless card but says there is p-roblem with driver. I tried like 6 different drivers for realtek (at least that what xp says of it) Please help.

 

so i really need the cd's?? is there other sites that i can download the drivers??

 

The SATA driver is:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/T8Clearance.aspx?url=/13808/eng/f6flpy32.zip&agr=Y&ProductID=2031&DwnldID=13808&lang=eng

One thing though -- I used a USB floppy drive to load the sata driver. If you don't have one, might be able to burn to a cd or USB key. The video is an Intel, got from the Intel site.


Real busy today, will try to post more info later.

 

Above one is for the hard drive and what about the wireless?
Can you please post the all the links for drivers that you used to install Xp
Thanks

 

I tried to install xp too (boot from cd/dvd) and it won't detect the HD, how do you stall this driver??? during the installation??? if so how or from vista???

 

how do i get the sata drivers??i've downloaded the link you've given it gives me an EXE file??pls tell us the steps on how you did it...

 

This is a test post. I typed a book this morning and it's still yet to show up.

 

Sorry to leave you guys hanging, it's been hectic here. I'm in Southern California and we've had to help out with evacuations because of the fires.

I worked on this with one other person, he loaded some of the drivers and he isn't available right now, had to evacuate his house. I'll try to post more of the steps that I did later today.

 

I have gotten the install XP part to work. Gave up on trying the dual-boot with Vista and just gone XP.

I read and tried alot of different methods. Here is one that will definiely work:

- You must have a Windows XP cd with SP2 integrated. If you have a 'recovery' CD I can't say how that will work. If you have an original XP (XP Gold), you must slipstream SP2, I am 100% sure of this. If you have the MS XP with SP2, congrats.

I had XP Gold and followed the directions on this guys page to slipstream the service pack 2 files in. By the way, do not do what he says after that, it doesn't work. Just use the part about SP2, Isobuster, and burning an Image CD. Also be warned for some reason he does not use the appropriate \'s when he's talking about the DOS work.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/How-To--Slipstream-your-XP-installation?page=0,1

- You must have a 3.5", 1.44 Mb USB Floppy drive, I spent days trying other methods, spent $40, and 30 minutes later I was in business.

You download the floppy image pack referenced in the link the guy above posted:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/T8Cl...13808&lang=eng

You run the exe that comes out of the zip and it copies the necessary files onto a floppy for you.

- Now, you boot from the XPSP2 CD and press F6 when it starts. Wait a second and it will ask you to press S or Enter. Press S and specify you driver/controller. Pikc the one below the one it wants, you want the 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI. It will ask about S or Enter again, do Enter this time.

- In 20 minutes you should have XP installed.

- When you get up, go to intel.com, search 965, find the download page and get your graphics and chipsets driver for 965GM.

- Now I'm where these other guys are, no Audio or WLAN.

 

I think my geekness is growing. I got the ? off the wireless adapter in the device mgr but I'm not near a WLAN so I can't test.

When you download the Realtek8187B driver you'll have a .inf file. Open the INF with Notepad. Go about 20 lines down under the IDs for 98/ME/2k/XP. One of those lines ends in 8187&REV_0200. Change it to 8197&REV_0200 as that is the hardware ID XP is using in this device.

 

when i download above link and double click on exe it doesn't do anything
do I just copy and paste it on usb driver???

 

Did wireless work this way???

 

can i just slipstream the sata drivers in xp sp2?? and how can i get the drivers from the .exe file given bec. when i double click it does nothing....

 

You can slipstream the sata drivers with xp sp2 or if you have xp sp1 you can slipstream all three together (sata drivers, xp, sp2)!
I used the following link and it helped me create my slipstream cd!

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-during-windows-xp-installation/


Good luck!

 

One last thing! The nLite version you'll use must me a non-beta version (i.e. nLite v1.3.5 | Installer | 2.04 MB)

 

I finally installed xp on the notebook by streaming sata driver into xp disc.
Now I need speaker, wireless, and video drivers
Anybody has luck with these drivers???
If you do PLEASE help me because this is driving me crazy.
Thanks guys

 

I did this on my X205-Sli3. Got the network drivers from Intel and Realtek, installed with not problems. However, I'm having trouble finding an audio driver that works.

Any advice??

 

Ok, sorry to leave you guys hanging all this time, been really busy. Like I said before, I didn't do all the work on this laptop, but when it was handed to me, the NIC and Wifi did not work.
The NIC did look as if it was installed in device mgr, would load a few web pages then stop working.

I don't remember exactly which drivers were used, but what I did:
Installed another driver for the NIC, the 8168 driver.

The wifi adapter wasn't working yet even though I had already installed the driver. Here's the weird part: I right clicked the wifi in device manager and went to update the driver, chose Windows Update. I don't think it actually connected to windows update, but strangely, it detected the wifi. After that eveything was working.

Hope this helps. I'd post links to all the files, but I don't know where all of them were downloaded from. Can't exactly post a link to my thumb drive...

 

hi guys, I'm evaluating this laptop but I would like to know if you can run the major devices on XP(sound, LAN, VGA, wireless) before I buy it.

warewulf, can you edit your first post with the summary of the devices and whether they work with XP ? Also please list, to the best of your knowledge, the correct XP driver for each device.

If anyone still has a working Vista OS on the laptop please run the following free utilities to list the device specs and post them here.

CPUID
PC Wizard

Thanks

 

not sure if this will work for you guys, but I have the L45-S7409. followed the early instructions on slipstreaming the drivers into the XP install and it worked for me.
Once that was done and got the intel chipset and graphics from intel.com.

For the wireless I was able to just use the 'update driver' feature of windows to locate that driver (Device manager, right click on wireless adapter).
Sound driver I was able to get working from this link ( http://rs161.rapidshare.com/files/57546874/XP_Drivers_laptop_Toshiba_A135-S4527.rar)
click on free download and download it for free - its not my post, I got this off another forum and lost track of where I found this link, thanks goes to the original poster. If someone can tell me where to post it, I would, it is about 55MB for the sound drivers. The link actually has more than just the sound driver so you may find it useful to download the entire file at this link.

I am almost finished installing XP now, except I still have 3 'Base System Devices' listed in other devices under my device manager. Anyone know what these are? I have a feeling its the card reader but not certain. Anyone manage to get these 'base system devices' drivers?

 

Try using the CD that came with the laptop, should be able to install everything remaining.

 

Hi all, at last I finished instalation Windows XP on Toshiba L45-S7423 and all devices working .

First I make special version of Windows XP using nLite - added SP2 (from Microsoft), S-ATA, chipset and video driver (from Intel webside - G965 chipset).
After instaling XP from this CD I recived 3 unknow devices, 1 unknow wireless card in Main System Manager and 1 not working PCI device in System Device. Of course I haven't sound but I have a working NIC card.

1. Sound
Sound received by instal driver from nolf3's pack - big THX for him (this version have Microsoft UAA driver inside - you must delete unknow PCI device in System Device before start instal sound driver). On the other forums I find information that this UAA driver is a base for sound and modem not only in Toshiba notebook.

2. Modem and Ricoh Card Reader
I using drivers for Vista with located on Restore CD. They working well.

3. Wirless card
I using driver from:
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/driver_wifi_realtek_26670A.exe

4. At last - the last unknow device

When you connect to Microsoft Windows Update after scaning your's system you see 1 driver update for "ATK0100 ACPI Utility" instal it (the safety pathes too ). This is all.

 

Very good information, Strohs.

 

Thanks Warewulf,

Resource CD worked out. Don't know why I didn't look in there in the first place. It seemed to have alot of other drivers in there already, don't know if they are the same or work with XP but I never even opened the CD, I thought it was just a recovery image of the (Vista) system.

 

I tried slipstreaming the drivers into my XP Home cd, but it still didnt detect my harddrive. Can you give us a direct link to the drivers you used?

 

Flamez - the link is bellow but remember, you first must install this file (.exe after unzip it) on floppy drive. You can copy this files from disquettes to HDD or dirrectly slipstreaming into your XP from floppy

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...y32.zip&DwnldId=13808&ProductID=2101&lang=eng

 

Thanks for the info! I have the same laptop (Satellite L45-S7409). I am at the same stage you are - I have the 3 'base system devices' that I cannot seem to find drivers for. Does anyone have any input on these base system devices? I am going to try a few things and see if I can figure them out. If I do, I will post back here.

 

AHHHH! I got it. It is the Ricoh card reader. You can install the driver from your Vista CD that came with the laptop. Just run the zipped file and it takes care of all 3 base system devices!

I hope that helps. Thanks to everyone who posted on this thread! It's nice to put our heads together to outsmart manufacturers who try to force people into something, like a proprietary OS.

 

I dont have a floppy drive sadly. Can one of you guys upload the extracted files somewhere?

 

Ok I extracted it with winrar actually, but it gave me a .IMA file, which nlite isnt able to incorperate.

 

I was able to get everything working except the FN F8 hotkey to turn wireles off and on. Any ideas???

 

Flamez - I put this files (afer decompres on flopy) on rapidshare - link bellow

http://rapidshare.com/files/69155821/dysk.zip.html

decompress it (from zip) and add to nLite

Bigboy - read manual first - you have switch on the front with antena symbol !! This switch is for fast turn on/off wireles.

 

My model is Toshiba L45-s7423. I got the same trouble as BigBoy. I tried everything on this thread, including top-link's tl-wn321G driver. Nothing helped the wireless, it still can not find any connection. I checked the wireless in CCity before buying this laptop. Seems all other brand laptops can have wireless connection except for Toshiba.

Is the trouble caused by "Fn+F8". How do you guys switch on the wireless please?

I cannot really imagine I can not solve this, I have been a developer for 10 years and using computers for 14 years. :-~

BTW, I am finding a ftp, will share all drivers working for my Toshiba l45-s7423.

 

hi can you tell me where exactly is the "chipset" driver ? I went to this URL :
Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family Download

Then I selected "Windows XP Professional" and I only see :
1. RAID/AHCI Software - Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
2. Intel® Embedded Graphics Drivers (IEGD) with CED
3. Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows XP(exe)
4. Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows XP(zip)
8. 32-bit Floppy Configuration Utility for Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
9. Intel® Chipset Identification Utility

Where is the chipset driver ?

 

Strange when i dl drivers - info update was presesent
try this link
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Fil...XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go!

 

I think I found the answer to getting the wireless working -- I'm setting up a 2nd unit. Used all the same drivers I used on the last one and couldn't get the wifi working. Last time it started working after I installed all the same drivers, then had it look on windows update for the driver. This time it wouldn't do it until I ran windows update and installed the Windows Installer 3.1.

After I installed the Windows Installer, I rebooted and it found one other device -- atk0100 acpi utility. At that point, I highlighted the wifi in device manager and had it install automatically. It found the driver, and now everything works!

 

I used this link for Chipset & video: http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-025753.htm

Then use the drivers for the GM965

 

Warewulf, that link no longer lists the chipset software. After you selected the OS (XP Pro) it only lists the ones I mentioned. Thanks for the tip for wireless though, haven't gotten that far yet, only created a slipstreamed CD so far with the three Intel drivers.

Thanks Strohs for the direct link to the chipset INF utility.

 

Hello guys,

I have a L45-7409, and need to change the Win Vista, to the Win XP Portuguese Edition, and i'm trying to do the same as you. But I'm not having good results.

I've read all the posts, and looked for the drivers to slipstream with the Win XP installer. I downloaded the Nlite 1.4, and tried to create a CD with files to detect the HDD, the chipset and video drivers. All the installation worked fine (i've done the COMPLETE FORMAT, NTFS. And kept the TOSHIBA PARTITION. That's correct?), copy the installation files, reset and finish the installation, but when the computer restart again, to really initiate the windows, it crashes (shows a blue screen, VERY FAST) and restart.

I tried again, putting just the hdd files at the slipstream, but the result was the same.

Anyone knows what can i do?

Tks!

-------
Ramires

 

Edit your posts instead of making 4 posts in 6 minutes.

 

Ramires - when I instal XP (polish version) I removing all partytions (hidden toshiba partytion also) and create 2 new (first for system and second for data). All instalation was ok. You add SP2 in your k-lite compilation?

 

Toshiba is not interested in solve this matter...
Remember this next time you need to buy another notebook...

I bought a Toshiba L45-S7423 and did suffer a lot to put WIndows XP SP2 on it.
Thanks to a lot of fragmented information I found at the internet (and here) I achieve a solution.

Please check if your system is exactly the same and do necessary adjustments:

My system came with:

Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46GHz
Toshiba SATA hard driver (MK1237GSX)
MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-850S
Intel Chipset GM965
Intel 82801 HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller
ICH8M Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2850
Ricoh Memory Stick Controller
Sunaptis PS/2 Port Touchpad
Realtek RTL8139/810x ethernet nic
Realtek RTL8187B wirelles 802.11g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network Adapter
Toshiba Software modem
Realtek High Definition Audio

Let's go to the solution:

1- Go to Intel website and get the Intel® Chipset Identification Utility:
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/inf/sb/CS-009266.htm
This software will help you identify your Chipset

2- If your Chipset is GM965, everything you need from Intel will come from:
http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-025753.htm

Obs: You can slipstream the sata drivers with xp sp2 or if you have xp sp1 you can slipstream all three together (sata drivers, xp, sp2)!
Some guys used the following link and they recommend. It helped them to create their slipstream cd! I did not use this but if you want please pay attention to download the right drivers for your system.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...d-disk-drives-during-windows-xp-installation/


3- Download 32-bit Floppy Configuration Utility for Intel® Matrix Storage Manager:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/fil...XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go!

4- generate the floppy disk with f6flpy32.exe

5- Boot your system with Windows XP SP2 CD and with the floppy generated above. At the beginning of the boot sequence press F6 when this option appears at the botton of your screen.

Wait a second and it will ask you to press S or Enter.
Press S and specify you driver/controller. Pick the one below the one it wants,
you want the 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI. It will ask about S or Enter again, do Enter this time.

6- Start installing Windows and In 20 minutes you should have XP installed.

7- After first successful boot start adding following drivers.

8- Be sure to install Intel Chipset GM965 before any other:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...&OSFullName=Windows* XP Professional&lang=eng

9- Install Intel Matrix Storage Manager:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/T8C...enu.exe&PrdMap=&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows* XP Professional&lang=eng
(iata78_enu.exe)

10- Install Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/T8C...e&agr=N&ProductID=2800&DwnldID=14388&lang=eng

11- Install High Definition Audio Codecs from Realtek: (WDM_R182.zip)
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...=3&GetDown=false#High Definition Audio Codecs

Don't worry if your sound doesn't start working after first reboot... sometimes it stars working after next step

12- Install RICOH drivers: (nb_driver_w251u_cardreader_1.01.08.zip)
http://devdrivers.net/Drivers/Download-6348/Gigabyte Ricoh xD-Picture Card Host Controller-Driver/

13- Be sure to have connectivity during all time because you will need some Microsoft automatic update to resolve unknown driver (ATK0100 ACPI Utility)

14) Get the wireless driver from Realtek (R8187B) from this page:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...ypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8187B

When you download the Realtek8187B driver you'll have a .inf file. Open the INF with Notepad. Go about 20 lines down under the IDs for 98/ME/2k/XP. One of those lines ends in 8187&REV_0200. Change it to 8197&REV_0200 as that is the hardware ID XP is using in this device. So, now update your driver using Device Manager


15) Download Toshiba Software modem:
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/ta8mdm_24549.exe

16) Extract all files to a directory and go to Device Manager and choose update driver for the "not working" modem. You don't need to install de package, just the drivers. But you can try if you want... I did not...

And that's all! At least to me...
Good Luck!

netdiver (Tasso)