Re: Satellite A200-237 ETA-6 with Windows XP

Hi ppl,

My name is Sibbe and I am from Holland and here again.
A few months ago, I bought the Satellite A200-237, distributed initially with Windows Vista. I really enjoyed working with Vista, but everyone knows that Vista slows down your system. Also a lot of software and games do not work on Vista so I wanted to try if my laptop also works with Windows XP.
So I installed Windows XP on my laptop, no drivers or software. After hours of searching on Google, I discovered that a lot of things that worked on my laptop with Vista don't work also on XP. For example:

-FN button does not work on XP ((quand j'ai appuyé sur le bouton dans Vista, flashcards est apparu sur le dessus de mon écran) only the green light comes on but the F1 to F12 keys does not work)

-Toshiba Power Saver ((en fait, cela ne fonctionne pas sur Vista mais c'était parce qu'il y avait beaucoup d'options dans les paramètres d'énergie de Vista) now, on XP, you need to install another program first before saving work?)

In any case, is anyway how I can do these things work under XP. And, of course, would be nice if I could use the flash cards for the FN key, but I suppose Toshiba has never done those for XP.

Data sheet:
Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 2.09 GHz
2 GB of RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600 256 MB
230Gb S - ATA HDD
Windows XP SP2 (not yet fully updated)

Thanks in advance!

Friend Sibbe

Post edited by: Sibbe

If you have installed XP on the Satellite A200 series you should not t forget to update the BIOS to the XP version.
If you n t update the BIOS, then your FN buttons will not work even if the correct drivers are installed.

So be careful and do not forget that the BIOS and other XP drivers designed for you, the series are installed correctly!

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