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XP Drivers for A215-S7422

post #1 of 13
12/20/07 at 12:40pm
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Like many of you, I don't like Windows Vista. I have had my A215-S7422 for about 2.5 months running Vista Premium. I upgraded it to 2.5 GB RAM which helped the performance but Vista is just a bloated hog...so I started searching for XP drivers when I learned that Toshiba does not provide XP Drivers for this specific model.

Instead of going to individual hardware manufacturers, I started searching through different Toshiba models.

The Satellite Pro A210-EZ2202X uses the exact same hardware (e.g. chipset, Realtek sound and wireless, ATI video etc.) and all of the XP drivers are provided on the Toshiba website.

I loaded XP Professional three days ago and installed the EZ2202X drivers downloaded from the Toshiba site. Everything works perfectly.

I hope this helps many of you.
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post #2 of 13
12/20/07 at 1:51pm
There were several threads on the other side (Toshiba Notebooks) and this one in particular that had most if not all drivers
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread202154.html
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post #3 of 13
1/20/08 at 12:59am
thanks for your input.... i have the same notebook and hate Vista and am planning on downgrading (which IMO is actually an upgrade) to XP, but wanted to make sure i could get all the drivers to make everything work when i do load XP... im glad i found this forum
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post #4 of 13
4/21/08 at 11:19am
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Originally Posted by Mumf71 View Post
Like many of you, I don't like Windows Vista. I have had my A215-S7422 for about 2.5 months running Vista Premium. I upgraded it to 2.5 GB RAM which helped the performance but Vista is just a bloated hog...so I started searching for XP drivers when I learned that Toshiba does not provide XP Drivers for this specific model.

Instead of going to individual hardware manufacturers, I started searching through different Toshiba models.

The Satellite Pro A210-EZ2202X uses the exact same hardware (e.g. chipset, Realtek sound and wireless, ATI video etc.) and all of the XP drivers are provided on the Toshiba website.

I loaded XP Professional three days ago and installed the EZ2202X drivers downloaded from the Toshiba site. Everything works perfectly.

I hope this helps many of you.
How long work on WindowsXP whitch this drivers ?
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post #5 of 13
4/21/08 at 2:56pm
well a normal XP installation (from scracth) with updates, with drivers ... few hours? or u can first prepare a XP installation disk with all updates/drivers installed (slip-streaming)

cheers ...
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post #6 of 13
5/23/08 at 5:50pm
I have the a215 s7422 also and have changed to XP. Only problem is in my device MGR, I have 3 base system devices with yellow?'s by them and have one other modem device on high def. audio bus. I can not get them to go away and everytime I boot my puter I get the found new hardware. Any thoughts???? Thanks.
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post #7 of 13
5/23/08 at 7:36pm
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I'm not sure what you might be missing. Did you install the chipset drivers?
Here is a link to all of the drivers on MegaUpload; I uploaded them for another person who asked. These are the drivers that I used and have no issues (no hardware missing or alerts in the Device Manager). All of the drivers aren't necessary; I didn't use the touch pad drivers, for example, but everything is included. I hope this helps.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H28A43MA
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post #8 of 13
5/24/08 at 8:20am
Not sure what is going on. I can not get rid of the 3 yellow base system device in device manager. I am DL the stuff you posted above, hopefully there is something in there I am missing. I am damn glad to get rid of vista, now just need to figure out what I am missing on the devices! Thanks.
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post #9 of 13
5/24/08 at 10:17am
Well no matter what I have tried, I can not get rid of the 3 BASE SYTEM DEVICE in device mgr. that are yellow with the ? mark by them. Every time I boot it ask to look for drivers. Any thoughts out there?
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post #10 of 13
5/27/08 at 10:04am
Nothing has worked to get the 3 base sytem device in device manager installed. Could service pack 3 for windows xp be causing me a problem? Any thoughts or suggestions would be great! Thanks.
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post #11 of 13
6/1/08 at 9:28am
did u try the drivers of a previous model as stated in above posts?

cheers ...
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post #12 of 13
6/1/08 at 9:35am
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Originally Posted by knockout View Post
Nothing has worked to get the 3 base sytem device in device manager installed. Could service pack 3 for windows xp be causing me a problem? Any thoughts or suggestions would be great! Thanks.
Read this post http://www.notebookforums.com/thread205861.html
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post #13 of 13
7/3/08 at 2:46pm
I had the same problem with a U305-S5097 in XP SP3. The three devices turned out to be the Ricoh card reader controllers (memory stick, XD/MMC, xD).

Make sure you install that driver package:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...all_docs=false
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