No Discs - need original toshiba software

Greetings Geeksters,

OK, so, seems I have been crashing laptops lately and have finally settled into tweaking up a nice Toshiba Satellite A25-S2792. I have upgraded the RAM, put in a new inverter, it needs a display (parts connectin anyone?) -and I see it needs a little more...

After the crash, I had a techie install a OEM version of Win XP Home. Thing is, the Tosliba stuff, such as for the touchpad, are missing. I have not tried the Fn keys and do wonder what else might be missing.

What got me started on this is that my Intellimouse USB Optical USB mouse scroll wheel BUTTON does not open a new tab like I am used to. So...besides installing IE7 (only 6 is in now, no wonder there are no tabs)...How do I get the Toshiba functionality back? Power Save options, etc.

TIA

Dr Carl

 

Try a couple of the Toshiba utilities to see what functionality they give from their driver pages for that model (there are 3 pages-bottom left to advance the pages). http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/...=A25-S2792&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768663

 

SOLVED Re: No Discs - need original toshiba software

OK...this site has been SO helpful to me over the years, the least I can do is post my solution.

I had found the Toshiba site and after spending a lot of time opening pages and reading about the drivers and the management programs, and finally downloading just about ALL of them, I ran into ONE of them that said something to the effect of "you must install this one first for any of the others to work"

I'll not waste keystrokes making the obvious complaint here.

Actually, I got the drift that there are two 'root' programs. The FIRST one to install was "tm1acpx.exe" -- Toshiba ACPI Common Modules for Windows XP/2000/98SE.

The second was "tbios25.exe" -- Toshiba TBIOS Driver for Windows XP/2000.

The others are fairly straightforward, or have understandable descriptions like "Pointing Device Driver."

Today might as well have been called Restart Day....with these files and all the rest of the updates, restarting was the order of the day.

Now I need to figure out if there is a good reason for the 30 second delay during every restart...where I stare at a screen that says...

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Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082)

For Realtek RTL8139xxxx.... PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (02...)

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 XX XX XX GUID: D0Cxxxx
PXE-E53: No boot filename received

PXE-N0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
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I'll start another thread for that.

And now, I think I'll restart again just for fun...

Best to all,

drcarl

 

You want to go into BIOS and change the boot order to CD then HD. Basically, move PXE to last or remove it from the boot order by disabling it somewhere in BIOS. If you remember where you saw examples of the BIOS screens you may be able to read up on it first or download the manual for your model.