Video problem with XP on Satellite P205

My P205 came with Vista, which just won't do, so I installed XP. I think I have everything working except the video driver. I think it has an ATI Radeon Xpress X1200. I downloaded the driver suite but get an error saying it cannot find the right chipset. Has anyone managed to get the ATI drivers to work under XP on this machine? What's the trick?

TIA.

 

If my assumptions are correct...

The P205 is the same as the european P200...

EDIT- sorry timed out links

So here is the main page
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU
Settings as
Product type Notebook
Family Satellite
Product series Satellite P Series
Model Satellite blank
Operating system Windows XP
Driver type ALL
Country ALL
Language English
then click Search
then check out the 'ATI' Display Driver information under the column 'Company' and more info

 

Tony,

Thanks for the links. I checked them, but am afraid none of the drivers are for my hardware ...

 

did some research
heres the american site drivers web-link, your exact model will be there ^_^
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modSel.jsp

 

Tony,

Thanks for the link. I'm going to go ahead and download the video driver; the reason I didn't do that before was that it's for Vista and I'm running XP. I have my doubts it will take, but no harm in trying. I'll let you know what happens.

 

Tony,

Back again. I downloaded the driver, even though it is for Vista. It "installed" without an error, but the install failed. There's not ATI driver being used ...

 

Whats the exact model? I just went through that whole list of P205's and none came up with ATI, all where Nvidia GFX cards...
BUT one thing I noticed is that the Vista Drivers are near the top, you have to Scroll DOWN and then it will say Display Drivers again, with XP in the description.

Can you post the exact model of your machine please?

 

Tony and all,

Got the problem figured out (not entirely on my own). The issue is that I needed to manually install just two components of the 5-part driver package -- the SouthBridge driver, and the driver itself.

I got the driver from AMD/ATI's website, but I didn't use the latest one for XP. I used version 8.401, released in Aug. 2007. While I'm on the subject of AMD -- after a week of deliberating their tech support provided me the "solution" to my problem -- go talk to Toshiba. Thanks, AMD!

For any others trying this, here's what I did:

1) Uninstalled ATI.
2) Downloaded the driver but didn't use the self-extracting feature. Instead, I unbundled it using a file compression/decompression utility (such as WinZip). I did this for both the SouthBridge driver and the video driver.
3) Ran the SouthBridge setup program. Rebooted.
4) Went into Device Manager and manually updated the driver from there.

Too bad Toshiba and AMD/ATI refuse to help customers who buy their products.