Toshiba Satellite P105-S921 review - Troyus - Page 2

Drivers for the GeForce Go 6800\Ultra, GeForce Go 7800GTX


You may go to the Dell Downloads Home to get drivers modified by Dell for your laptop's graphics card.

LaptopVideo2Go Modified ForceWare Drivers (Requires replacing INF files on drivers made for Desktop graphics cards) Created and maintained by Pieter of LV2G.

Tweaks R Us XTreme-G MobileForce Modified ForceWare Drivers (Run installer to extract + install) Created and maintained by me (GeForceTony).

DHZer0point Modified ForceWare Drivers (Run installer to extract + install) Created and maintained by The DHZer0point Team.

Explaination of Differences Between the Drivers


Dell Modified ForceWare Drivers - Drivers modified by Dell that are usually the "safest" drivers. Meaning they will most likely be the slowest performers of the bunch, and are also usually not as up-to-date (as far as bug fixes) as the latest NVIDIA ForceWare drivers out there.

LaptopVideo2Go Modified ForceWare Drivers - Created and maintained by Pieter of LV2G, these drivers are essentially reference NVIDIA drivers with Mobile GPU (Graphics Card) support added.

Tweaks R Us XTreme-G MobileForce Modified ForceWare Drivers - Created and maintained by me (GeForceTony). These take LaptopVideo2Go drivers a step further by also adding image quality and performance tweaks.

DHZer0Point Modified ForceWare Drivers - Created and maintained by The DHZer0point Team. These also have image quality and performance tweaks.

NVIDIA Video Driver Update from Uninstall -> Install -> Happiness


A.) Download and Install Driver Cleaner Pro.

[Removed part about Live Update for Driver Cleaner Pro, as the author has REMOVED this feature starting with version 1.3 ]


1.) Unplug NIC card or modem from the Internet, or disconnect (DriverCleaner ReadMe).

2.) Disable any AntiVirus Software. If you don't disable it, it could give you trouble (Driver Cleaner ReadMe).

3.) Uninstall current Video driver, called "NVIDIA Drivers"(If you have an NVIDIA mobo and an NVIDIA videocard, make sure you only uninstall the video driver, not all NVIDIA drivers or your mobo will lose its drivers also).

4.) Reboot.

5.) As the reboot comes up, after the quick memory test and hard drives have been recognized, hit F8 and enter "SAFE MODE". On some boards if you hit F8 too early you will enter other utilities.

6.) On reboot into Safe Mode WinXP SP1/SP2 *WILL* auto detect and ask you to install drivers. You should be able to cancel out of the auto install hardware wizard move to step #7. If you can NOT cancel out of auto detect wizard then, navigate to Device Manager -> Display Adapters -> highlight NVIDIA... and click Uninstall or Remove but DON'T reboot (From DriverCleaner ReadMe, modified for clarity by Rike).

7.) Run DriverCleaner with the filter for the driver ("nVidia"). Quit DriverCleaner and restart into Windows XP normal mode.

8.) Install the new video driver.

9.) Empty the recycle bin and Reboot.

10.) Redo what was undone in #2 & #1, in that order. Reboot if needed to re-establish Internet connection.

11.) Enjoy!

I don't think so. Should just download, right click the coolbits file after extraction (if necessary) and choose merge.

did I miss the pics?........

it shouldnt be too long, i have taken many pics of mine and they can be done fast...

why a 4200 serial-ata?!.. i think its the only thing that sux!!!...

yeah... i was waiting for m1710, but its damn overpriced... so starting looking for a new...

when i saw p105.. why not.. it have an 7900 gs same m1710 cheaper model.. but... a 4200 realll sux..

well.. as your question ... i dont think that have any magic to get better... only way is replacing... which is sux, isnt!!?

btw qosmio 35 has an 7300 .. out of question..

hard times!!

regards,

yeah the 1710 is a good $1000 more fully loaded, that 512mb vid card is nice; but it seems to be limited to 2 gigs of memory while the Toshia is 4GB.

I just don't know, the guys at work would kill me if I got a Dell since we sort of compete with them, but damn I really want to play some cool ass games soon at full res.

did u conisder the 5950????

You can customize a P100 on the Toshiba web site.

did any one notice on Toshibas web site the .pdf of the modle says 256,512,2048 so-dimms but no 1024 dimms.I was wondering if that was a typo.

Probably becasuse they wanted to thow tons of storage space in there and the only options for a 160GB HDD at the present are a 4200 and a 5400. They probably went with the 4200 to make a price point (keep the unit "under" $2k. Also, I don't know if Toshiba Storage manufactures a 5400rpm 160GB drive or Toshiba has contracts with anybody that does. Besides, the performance should be pretty high due to the high density of the drive so it shouldn't be THAT big of a deal. Besides,HDD's are all too easy to swap out so you could just wait until a 7200 rpm drive comes along and swap it for that then.

yeah... but dont have 7900gs! :/


yeah u probably right.. but i dont belive an 7200 hardrive in this configuration will increase that much, dell m170 was like $1700 with gtx and 7200 hd.
anyway.. u are right thats easy to swap.. thinking!!

Any news on when P105 will release in Canada? (In particular the model in subject?)

If the notebook has not been QA-ed for 7200RPM HDD
then you might overheat some components.Has any one tried it yet.?

regarging the p105-s921

in Poland there is P100 typology with p100-221 being the top of the line (t2500 core duo, media center xp, 7900gs and 5400rpm 120gb drive). As far as my research will have the same body as Yours p105 -> that is why i want to ask --> are the speakers enough loud and clear to listen to music and movies at home and what about the placing of the speakers are they beeing blocked by wrists while working on this laptop ?