XP on x205 SLI1

Hey guys. I just got my new TOSHIBA Satellite X205-SLi1 and I am looking to install windows XP onto it. My problem is that i cannot seem to get the XP install utility to recognize my hardrives. I have spent about 5-6 hours on this problem and I have read alot of forums. My question is, does anyone have a link directly to the sata drivers for me? I can't seem to find them anywhere. I understand that I could fix this if i had a USB floppy drive but i do not. Is there anyone out there with the sata drivers for xp so I can slip stream them? Thank you sooooo much.

 

Alright, I got xp to work with slipstream. I don't understand how so many people got XP on there computer so smoothly. It has taken me hours. Now I can't seem to find xp drivers for my x205 anywhere. The toshiba website only seems to have vista drivers and only a select few xp drivers. Can anyone tell me where i can find these drivers? I especially need to get my wifi to work. I feel so stupid because I have reformatted so many computers and i just can't figure this out. If there is anyone who has installed xp on there x205/x205 sli that could seriously help me it would be deeply appreciated.

 

When I ran XP on my sli1 I used the Vista drivers, they all work fine with XP.

 

Ok. I took a Windows Media Center Edition (enhanced Pro) 2005 CD and went to driverpacks.net and downloaded all the driverpacks and the base program. It integrates the driver packs into XP! Was nice, it even modified the XP installation to support all the SATA controllers. They had a nice GUI to integrate the driver packs into the source, real easy. I then integrated SP3 into the installation as well. So I burned a new MCE 2005 CD, now w/ SATA and tons of other drivers support and SP3 integrated. Booted it up on my X205-SLI1 and bingo, detected the hard drives.

Installed Windows XP, painless. The sound came working, realtek, it was automatically working thanks to the driver packs, as well as the onboard ethernet and wireless. But now I still have unknown device drivers, one that's unknown, one that's mass storage, one is for the fingerprint reader and I can't remember the other(s). I don't think the mass storage is the SATA controller though, cause under IDE/ATAP controllers I see the Intel ATA controller. So the drivers appear to be installed. Is the mass storage maybe the onboard memory card reader? Or something else?

I had an issue with the Video card though, it was detected thanks to the Unversal Driver Pack but it didn't work properly (window blue screened on startup until I removed it from device manager in safe mode). I ended up downloading XP Nvidia drivers for the 8600M off some other site and using a modified inf file to make Windows XP take it. It seemingly worked, I got the video card detected, but in the nvidia control panel I see nothing about SLI. What drivers did you use for the Video card(s), how did you get SLI working?

Which Vista drivers did you use? When I went to Toshiba support, they didn't have SATA drivers, even for Vista. I tried to go to Toshiba Europe for the X200, but that didn't pan out as well. Just curious what drivers you specifically downloaded to make all the hardware work?

 

there are several posts with all of the drivers you need, including possibbly the KB888111 hotfix which allows XP to recognize your modem and sound card. I'm using 169.09 video drivers, and SLI works just fine.

I've been running XP on my SLi3 since October...search my posts to find the drivers I'm using.

 

Got video working using forceware. 175.70 (the NEWEST, less than a week old) didn't let me initialize SLI. It worked for regular video, but when I went to turn on SLI, it flickered, tried to turn on, then went back to normal/non-sli. I then tried 175.63, the next oldest, about 2-3 weeks old, and SLI enabled just fine. Interesting enough, in Vista, everytime you enable/disable SLI, you have to reboot. But in XP, I can enable/disable SLI w/o rebooting.

The sound was easy thanks to the universal driver pack, I used the vista modem driver and that's done. The 'Mass Storage' unknown device turned out to be the onboard memory card reader, the Vista driver from Toshiba worked as well. So now I just got to get the fingerprint reader and one 'unknown device' which doesn't offer any hint as to what it could be.

The only thing I'm really concerned about now is the Toshiba Value Added package. I found another post where somebody was looking for it for XP, but no answers as to if it was solved or not. I need the buttons (brightness, etc.) working.

 

When I try to view all your posts I get an access denied page. It says I don't have the privileges. I think only moderators/administrators can search all posts from a user? My account's activated...

 

disable SATA native option in BIOS