Toshiba A135-S2276 XP Upgrade Problems

I bought a Toshiba A135-2276, pre-loaded with Vista. Installed XP Pro, then ran the drivers and applications from the backup disk. There are a number of devices that aren't running properly. From the device manager they include:

Ethernet Contoller
SM Bus Controller
Unknown Device
Unknown Device
Video Controller (VGA Compatible)

I assume one of the unknown devices is the Wireless Adapter, which isn't recognized. Toshiba customer support wasn't any help.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks

 

You'll probably need to run over to ATI's site and look for their chipset driver, and figure out where the Atheros wireless driver is at the very least. That should resolve your SM Bus, Video, and one Unknown Device, I'd assume. As far as the Ethernet goes, I'm not able to figure out which chip is in your system (it's not on the spec sheet) so I can't tell you for sure on that one.

See if that helps.

- Trip

 

I am having the same problem with installing XP on the same model. I tried installing the right driver from ati's site but while installing, it gives me eror "Inf Video Error" followed by "setup display adapter with standard vga driver before starting the setup". Any idea what should I be doing? In my device manager, there is no tab corresponding to monitors and in my display settings, monitor type is set to default. Am I missing something?

 

I am assuming you installed your own WinXP (not include by your laptop packaging) ?
I suggest you go to Toshiba support web page and download the corresponding drivers that go with you serie of laptop.
I was thinking these drivers that you need most:
1. Video Card
2. Sound Card
3. WIFI LAN
4. LAN

optional:
5. Card Reader ?
6. Firewire ?
7. Infra Red ?
...what else...

Hope it helps

 

Unfortunately Toshiba doesn't post XP drivers for these components on this laptop.

Has anyone successfully found them

 

Exact same problem here...
I found a few promising links through google for ati xpress 200m(vga) driver
See if they work please (and report back ofcourse)
http://askiris.toshiba.com/ToshibaS...d=&dialogID=7776149&stateId=0%200 7774443
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati.php

Other problems:
None of the function keys are working
SCrolling in Opera is slow
scrolling on touchpad is sometimes weird..

are these driver realted as well?

 

Yeah, I can not also find the drivers for A130 series.
I think you should seek for individual components then.
ATI from ATI websites
the sounds card from their own manufacturer website.
and so on

 

No, the driver above from Toshiba gets the same "video driver not found" error. Funnier yet, the X200M driver from ATI doesn't work at all. It says it can't find compatible hardware.

 

One piece of advice since I see you’re poking around in Device Manager. For the love of god don’t disable the device driver that is installed (vgasafe) like I did. It’s unrecoverable and you’ll have to reinstall XP again, like I did.

 

I have the same issue with a p105-s9337 I just purchased. The annoying part is the laptop has almost the exact same hardware as previous p105's (s9312) that came preloaded with xp, so Toshiba could easily fix this problem by posting those drivers for the s9337. I haven't fixed all of the driver problems yet, but almost all the hardware is working now in xp since I installed drivers posted for the s9312. Hope this helps. I am going to contact Toshiba and see what they say.

 

i am having the same problem with a amilo laptop but i can direct some you that are ati x200m cards go www.fujitsu-siemens.com for the drivers when your are asked to enter your serial no of laptop type" 1310G" This my laptop using ati x200m

 

Thanks but it still gives me the same "Inf error. Video driver not found." error I've gotten with all the ATI drivers I've tried.

Actually I found something that sort of works. It's on the site Omegadrivers.com listed above. It's basically a hacked version of the ATI drivers. It actually loads and works as a video driver! The problem is that, like most software hacked like this, it's not very stable. It intermittently won't go into sleep mode and then usually has no video when it comes out of sleep mode so you have to hard boot. The computer also hangs for about a second or so every couple of minutes. Can't say for sure that's the video driver but it didn't do it before so I'm guessing it is. It's pretty annoying and always gives that second of "oh crap, windows locked up again" feeling.

I’ll be returning the laptop this weekend since I can’t run XP without the drivers I need and I can’t run Vista since it won’t run half my software; not to mention it’s sooo slooow. I gave it a week of tinkering and my lesson learned is do some research beforehand and get a laptop with XP drivers.

 

i did googling to sort out my ati issues at the official ati web site and a bug was reported about ati drivers that are preventing hibernation on the laptops but if the hibernation does work , on waking the laptop goes to a white blank screen but sound still working. so i think its the drivers causing this problem. did u try dhmod tool? ati support for mobile drivers is lacking. anyway going check this again because i am having the same if i find anything will reply to you asap.

cheers

 

I had the same issue with the ATI driver. I managed to trick XP into thinking loading the ATI driver. The Hardware device ID is different from those published for some reason.


If you paste this into the inf file
PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5A62&SUBSYS_FF041179&REV_00\4&2C0D4F31&0&2808

you will then need to point it to the correct directory.

For the SM Bus, you need to install it seperately ... I can't remember what I did but it is a seperate driver.

Now I have just 3 unknown deivices. I believe that they are to do with the T2060 chipset.



If I ever get it all sorted, I will post instructions on how to do it

 

I did a quick XP install and got the same list. The Ethernet controller is Wifi and Windows has driver for it when you do a Windows update - use you wired LAN to update Windows.

 

Sound like the same ATI bug when installing latest driver for Vista. ATI "forgot" to add our device into their INF device list. Open *.inf file (don't remember exact file name and change the device ID for "ATI Radeon Xpress 200M series" to 0x5A62 and install the driver again.

 

OK I have managed to figure out nearly all the drivers that are needed for XP to function. I have compiled all the drivers to make most of it work except for the "Modem Device on High Defnition Bus" Can anyone recommend a good server that I can upload to?

For the the 2 Unknown devices that you get, they are ACPI button handlers specific for Vista, so you can ignore those.

I called Toshiba and they weren't much help. They said XP drivers would be released but did not give a time frame. My guess is that a BIOS release would be required to take care of those Unknown devices, but who knows?

Here is the link with info on the two "Unknown devices"

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/vista/DirAppLaunch.mspx

If you look up the Hardware IDs you will see "ACPI\PNOC32" in the device properties. If you look it up in Vista, it corresponds to "Direct Application Launch Button" or some thing like that. The driver is embedded in the Vista OS.

 

Can you go into a lil more details please? Which exact driver did you go for?
This one: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html ?
Thanks a tonne for the instructions btw!

Simply use the recovery and applications cd (that came with the laptop) to install the drivers for the modem. Though its a 56k modem(I think)

turboupload.com

Thanks for the tip. though my xp ain't legal I'll find a workaround.
Edit: I found a workaround and it works! unfortunately it deleted the file before i could copy it . Will try to upload the drivers with something like drivermax

 

ETHERNET DRIVERS
Extracted using drivermax.
http://d.turboupload.com/d/1547230/oem5.inf.zip.html
You can use windows (devmgmt.msc > right click . update drivers)
or simply use drivermax : http://innofiles.com/soft/dmx/drivermax.exe

njoy!

Edit: these gave a BSOD here and there and didn't work with DHCP (setting a static ip worked flawlessly)
Edit2: Terribly sorry but the BSOD was due to my ISP's client. The above drivers are just perfect!

 

hey whats up, great post. just want add something, when in device manager try updating the driver and choose install from specific location. next choose dont search this will get windows to let you choose from drivers already present. after making this choice a new window will open you will notice a green tick hiding other drivers remove the tick now amazingly other ati drivers will appear. if you see the option" standard" highlight it various standard drivers will appear next to it. if you are lucky to find "standard pci drivers (vga)" update display adapters to this drivers this will give you the famous stand vga driver we all are looking for.

 

take a tip from dougie85 and install omega drivers, looks like it killed the "white screen death" for me. THANK YOU DOUGIE85.

 

I don't...
could you upload it using drivermax?

 

Neither do i but what i did was force windows to standard vga mode. i uninstalled all ati drivers then used driver cleaner pro. i opended device manager and uninstalled whatever drivers windows was using. i then placed the driver disc in the cd drive that came with my laptop and forced installation if driver does not install click and try again then i used omega drivers 7.1. so you need your drivers that came with your notebook and omega drivers. install normal drivers then omega it will reconfigure your ati drivers. this has worked for me.

 

okie thanks for that explanation , trying your method now..

 

I don't know about anyone here, but I got my Toshiba A100-VA1 working under XP with drivers from a different laptop from the same series. The ATi Drivers gave me the same problems, "device not found" but I found another driver that did load under XP. The file size was around 28mb versus the 83mb other laptop's had.

I got the Wireless working, the power saver software, the modem, the audio, and the ethernet working (ethernet loaded with XP).

Funny thing is, once I loaded the drivers for the audio from RealTek's website, the modem loaded

I will reload XP on my laptop this weekend and post my results and how to get it all working if anyone is interested.

Another thing, if your finding Vista too slow, disable all the startup programs except Audio and the Synaptics touchpad. You will find a drastic speed increase.

Hope this helps at least one person

 

Hey,

Can you give a link to the 28 MB zip that worked for you? I understood from this thread how to trick the inf file, but nobody gave any link to where to download the driver from. The amd/ati site lists X300 series as the lowest model and I didn't find any reference to X200.

Thanks a lot.

 

I will try to upload all the drivers tonight. I tried the drivers from the recovery CD but it didn't work for me. May be I will try again. I installed windows about 5 times to try to get a stable easy install for others. I have nailed all except the ones I mentioned (Modem sound and the unknown devices). For the ATI driver, I just changed the inf to include the toshiba card on its list of recognized cards for easier install, yes you can force one of the others to install too. The unknown devices would require a BIOS roll or a dummy driver since XP does not support it.

 

Good info here, but XP is still not 100%. I got this laptop Sunday and had XP working later in the afternoon. I was able to use the omega drivers and the software off windows update and the restore cd to get most everything working

The only thing left that I really care about is the brightness adjustment.

Is it a driver or software issue?

It appears the the software on the Toshiba restore disk only works in Vista. I was able to get the onscreen volume/mute to work as well as a few of the other function keys(hibernate/suspend). A lot of these keys are defined by windows keymap settings - ie next track/last track/my computer/calculator. I believe there must be some driver interaction in order to get the panel to brighten/dim. Either that or it's using DCC information. Then we'd need decent working video drivers, a way to access the brightness hardware directly, or simply the software that handles this.

The panel is same lg screen that is on my other 2 toshiba a100 laptops, I'm going to try moving the file into an xp environment, but am having trouble finding it. I've restored vista to try and get it again.

Finally OSX 10.4.8 JaS installer does not work, according to the OSX86 project boards the southbridge of the chipset is not supported, that or the hard drive SATA drive is not supported.

 

Here is the first link for the ATI drivers. You need to select update driver and point it to the Driver directory for the video card and SBDrv for the SM Bus device. I will upload the rest here soon. It timed out the last time I tried.

http://d.turboupload.com/d/1559106/Bare_Bones_ATi_Radeon_Xpress200M.zip.html

Here are the others:

http://d.turboupload.com/d/1559235/XP_Drivers.zip.html

For the sound modem issue as some one mentioned just use the driver on the recovery disc.

 

Just got the A135 special from Office Depot and I promptly downgraded to XP.

I'm experiencing keyboard problems where keys do not reflect the correct characters. I scoured google and here; I found that this is a typical problem with the Satellites. However, I can't seem to find a fix for the A135.

Keyboard configuration is correct under control panel. No Bios upgrades are available at Toshiba.

Also, I've got a serious power problem. The laptop would intermittently lock up; I mean the display would turn off and no input response. The power on LED would stay orange instead of green including all system status led's. I tried holding down the power button for 10 seconds but nothing. What's even strange is the wireless power led will not turn off even if the switch is set to off. To cycle power I would have to remove the battery from the bottom. I think this is a hardware problem; perhaps a "lemon" from Toshiba.

I figure Office Depot just had a bunch of these notebooks sold recently and maybe someone had the same experience or possibly a solution.

TIA

~ ghost

 

Your problem sounds worse than mine. For mine, when it enters sleep mode, where it turns off the LCD and the power LED flashes, when I press the power button again, it will not wake up. My buddy has the lower end A135 but his wakes up. I used exact same set up procedures on his and mine ... just can't explain it!

I would suspect a bios version issue at this point.

 

I agree... I downloaded the BIOS on the Toshiba web, even though it's the same version that came with the PC; it still does not work. I timed the lock up and it happens about 10-15 minutes after power. The laptop does not get hot at all and it still happens so it can't be the thermal shutdown feature.

I thought maybe it was Windows that's causing this so I booted to the BIOS SETUP screen and not let Windows boot; left it alone for 10-15 minute and sure 'nuff it does the same thing.

Then I thought maybe it was the battery so I disconnected the battery and just used the AC adapter - problem still happens. I can't even do an OS re-install since it can not stay on for the duration on the installation.

For $350 after the $200 rebate it's not worth my time. Last effort is to take it back to OD and get a new one tomorrow.

 

Sorry for replying late.. my isp finally discovered I hadn't paid him..
/anyways my problem got solved ages ago.

VGA driver:
Just install the Oh-ME-GA drivers http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php (23 mb) , Just to them them I installed a stripped version of xp (tinyxp) and threw a few games and, demo scenes at it. It is stotally stable.
OR
just use the drivers uploaded by turbo97 above.

Ethernet
Win update or use the ones I uploaded earlier.

Other Issues I had:
1. Jerky/non-responding Mouse : I had this problem only after i installed the touchpad syntouch drivers from the 'official' toshiba recovery and drivers cd. Using a external mouse solves this. Or you could remove those driver and search for some other drivers.. Or you could avoid the drivers and still use it (without scrolling or other features).
Edit: I was wrong, the issue seems to originate from realtek audio drivers that come with the CD. Though I am not very sure about this..
2. standby hangs: Its a known issue support.toshiba.com . Since hibernation is lightning fast on xp you could use that instead.

Same here

The omega drivers came with ati-tray tools . They allow hotkeys to be setup to reduce/increase brightness/contrast as much as one likes
But just be a lil careful with that, its quite a power tool. Atleast don't attempt overclocking.

If you have any issues or need some drivers just ask.

 

Just in case, but is the keyboard layout set to English (united states) or english ( united kingdom).
control panel > regional > languages > details

 

Yes the keyboard option is set to English. I decided to re-install Vista but even with that the power problem still happens. I lost patience in verifying the keyboard.

I checked the support site in Toshiba when you indicated the hibernate/standby is a known issue; I couldn't find a resolution to it. Perhaps it's related to what I'm experiencing.

 

I just got an A135 from Office Deport as well. It has Windows Vista running on an Intel Celeron processor it is incredibly, over the top slow! I went back to Office Depot’s tech dept. and the guy there told me upgrading to a 1GB memory card won't help, so, I'm thinking of installing XP... but I'm self-conscious about the drivers, what do you guys recommend me to do? After reading all this, I'm not sure anymore, I think I'll just take the laptop back to Office Depot and demand a refund, this definitely merits a lawsuit! They shouldn't be selling equipment like this!

Thanks

 

Thank you turbo97se! Those drivers really helped a lot. I also installed the Windows XP driver for the Synaptics touchpad from their site:

http://www.synaptics.com/support/drive.cfm

I didn't like how it would sometimes click when I was touching the touchpad to move the cursor. Now with the Synaptics software installed that is not a problem. I changed the touchpad settings with the icon in the taskbar.

I can't get the software modem to work with the recovery disc. I guess it is no big deal unless my DSL goes down.

I hope Toshiba eventually gives us a BIOS update so that we can use XP easier.

Is anyone planning to get a refund for not using their Vista operating system? I'm going to try.

 

............hj

 

Your welcome!

Actually for the modem, try to use the modem driver I supplied in the packet first and then install the recovery CD version. The recovery CD only remedied the modem sound device I stated earlier.

ghostcount: sounds like a hardware issue, but it is too conincidental that it happens after 15 minutes, that's the Energy star requirement for sleep mode, that's why I said BIOS.

Asgy: Yes, Vista was slow as molases I can't imagine why they would release a notebook with this configuration. XP is much faster but the Toshiba runs it no faster than my Compaq EVO 410C that I got 3 years ago! If you install the drivers posted, you should be good to go.

 

For any users still having problems with ati x200m drivers should try this. Click on start then run and type D:/ATISETUP then press ok. if your drivers are already on the hard drive then change the letter to C:/ATISETUP. if you get a error go back to run box and click browse. i found that drivers are unzipping properly. using this method i found two extra drivers in there. cant remember correctly but one was S3 unichrome driver which gives a inf error. the rest installed nicely. hopefully someone here has answer for S3 driver. thanks .

 

All hail turbo97se. Those drivers work like a charm. I have a new, brandnew laptop. I have the A135-S2267. The Core 2 1.6Ghz, 512 Memory, 64Mg Video Built In, although with vista the Video jumps to 128Mg because it's shared. The xp driver doesnt use another 64Mg of system memory, and this is good. 64Mg is more than enough for XP. This thing now runs like a premium workstation. I even get some descent game play from it running XP. Paid $550 at BestBuy. EXCELLENT. Thanks A Lot turbo97se

 

This might prove helpful for persons searching in the future on id'ing devices

Unknown Device Identifier 5.02

Freeware
Unknown Device Identifier enables you to identify the yellow question mark labeled Unknown Devices in Device Manager. And reports you a detailed summary for the manufacturer name, OEM name, device type, device model and even the exact name of the unknown devices. With the collected information, you might contact your hardware manufacturer for support or search the Internet for the corresponding driver with a simple click. With this utility, you might immediately convert your unidentified unknown devices into identified known devices and find proper driver on the Internet and contact the hardware device manufacturer or vender. Known devices recognized by Microsoft Windows will also be analyzed independent of the operating system.

You are suggested to do a thorough driver backup with My Drivers after you have identified all the unknown devices with their proper device drivers software installed.


Supported OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003. Future OS are supported via the online update. You might even run the small freeware utility from CD or floppy.


Features

- Identify USB 1.1/2.0 Device
- Identify IEEE 1394 Device
- Identify ISA Plug&Play Device
- Identify AGP Bus Device
- Identify PCI Device
- Multilingual interface: English, French
- Find Drivers for Hardware Devices
- Contact Hardware Vender directly
- Save or Print Hardware information


Screen shots


http://www.zhangduo.com/udi.html

 

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In case you are at a point in which you are about to "give-up" and just keep Vista.... read thru this:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3529

Some serious reasons NOT to migrate to Vista, to keep on using XP.

.

 

hey cud u specify the model u bought for 350 bucks, coz i bought mine for ~ 600 bucks after taxes from bestbuy. I wud love to get one for around $ 400. let me know. mine is the same model i.e. Toshiba A135-S2276,

thanks in advance

 

Hey Zorrran, it's the A135-S2246 not the A135-S2276. The one I've got has a Celeron M 430 Processor instead of the T2060. I realize I'm complaining about a different model but it has the same devices as the A135-S2276.

I paid $592.61 (with tax) for it but it has a $200 MIR.

I'm returning it tomorrow - OD will pick it up around lunch time. Since I bought it over the phone OD B&M won't take it back. They say it's gotta' be reconciled with the phone order department inventories not the stores. That's OD service for ya' - I'm not saying OD personnel are awful, in fact every OD personnel I talked to was courteous and polite.

I opted for the A135-S4407 instead and have had no problems so far with Vista. If I get brave 'nuff and convince nuttin' will happen hardware-wise I'll put XP on it.

~ ghost

 

Guess what people. The Drivers from turbo97se also work on Windows 2000. Yeap. The Toshiba A135-S2276 Will work with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Hmmm ,I wonder if they will work Windows 98SE????? Will try it and see. For those who are wondering why do such a thing. These up to date and new computers run Win_2K & Win_XP super fast. These new systems have way enough memory & processing power to run older operating systems. Yae-Yaeee.

 

OK, the only issue I am having now with the setup is that it does not wake up after going into standby mode. The screen just stays blank. Anyone know how to fix this issue? Or is anyone not having this issue?

I have tried changing the settings in the "Power Settings" to see if something in there was screwing things up. The weird thing is that if you put the laptop to sleep and wake it up within a minute, the thing will wake up. If you leave it longer or let the OS put it into standby mode, it will NOT wake up and you have to hold down the power button for a hard reset. I have searched the BIOS too just in case. I hate dealing with this stuff! I would have thought that laptop companies would have made these backward compatible in the BIOS but oh no, that would have been too smart!

 

Hey ghost,

thnks 4 the reply man. i was kind of pissed for having 2churn out extra 2oo bucks, but urs is a different model so thats ok!!
Infact i have no complains with this model NOW. i had spent 2 sleepless nites to figure out how to make this work................but turbo97se has done a splendid job. most of my deviices work now. I haven't checked the stand by issue yet............but i guess kool people over here will definately find a way out.

thanks 2 allllllllll,

chao

 

Hello turbo97se,

I buyed my Toshiba a135-s2276 in the last weekend and the drivers that you posted resolve the most of my problems.

My problem now is with keyboard functions, some of functions (like mute or change monitor) are ok, but chance the brightness of lcd not work, and with you ?

I will test the stand by mode and after the results i post .

Thanks

Alexandre

 

i checked mine it works fine till now.