Satellite A300 - issues after downgrading to Windows XP

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• Re: Satellite A300 - battery after upgrading to Windows 7

  Hi all

  I have with me the notebook toshiba Satellite A300.
  Bought the UNITED Arab Emirates. I just upgraded my pc to windows 7 and it seems to have affected my battery life, I guess.

  Anyone has idea about hw long battery last, I mean hours.

  Now, I can only use it for nearley 30 min... Some blog said of updateing the bios.

  Is this the reason realley or is the problem of windows 7 with my battery, experts advise please.

  Thank you, vb sbar

  Hello

  I don't know if the update of the BIOS would help, but if the new BIOS is available for you notebook series, then it s a m updated value.

  But you should also check the Win 7 power management settings.
  Please check this Toshiba HowTo:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/Ann.jspa?annID=41

  It s on vista but Vista power management is very similar to Windows 7.

  Here you must change the battery more user-friendly options.
  Check it!

• Satellite A300 starts after Vista update

  Hello everyone!

  I had a problem with my Satellite A300. After installing Vista updates laptop is restart automatically, so it is not commissioning and screan is black, but buttons is the lighting, the cooler works.

  You have a solution to this problem?

  Hello

  Remove the battery, disconnect the adapter and wait for about 30 minutes.
  Then reconnect both parties and try to turn on the laptop.

  Check it out!

• Missing drivers after downgrading to Windows 7

  Can someone help me?

  Miss me the drivers after downgrading to windows 7 (from 8.1).

  The drivers I need is:

  -Bluetooth controller

  -Ethernet controller

  -Network controller

  PCI device-

  SM Bus controller-

  -Controller universal Serial Bus (USB)

  My HP 15-g030s0 notebookis

  I would be very grateful for help.

  Best regards / by

  First, install the amd chipset driver and reboot:
  
  http://support.AMD.com/en-us/download/chipset?OS=Windows 7-64

  Audio: Accept the agreement, download and install the driver for the second on the list. "
  
  http://www.Realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?langid=1&PNid=24&PFID=24&level=4&Conn=3&DownT...
  
  Ethernet: Download and install the 3rd driver on the list.
  
  http://www.Realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?langid=1&PNid=14&PFID=7&level=5&Conn=4&DownTy...
  
  USB 3.0: Install both.
  
  http://h20565.www2.HP.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.page/public/PSI/swdDetails/?sp4ts.Oid=5359417&SP...
  
  http://h20565.www2.HP.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.page/public/PSI/swdDetails/?sp4ts.Oid=5359417&SP...

  Media of Realtek PCIe Card Reader Driver:

  http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=5359407&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D%257CswItem%253Dob_125075_1%257CswEnvOID%253D4059%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

  Don't know what wireless card you have since HP use various brands. If these do not work, you will need to get the hardware id to the device in Device Manager.

  IF you have Atheros QCA9000 Wireless Qualcomm:

  http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=5359407&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D%257CswItem%253Dob_128686_1%257CswEnvOID%253D4059%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

  Atheros Bluetooth:

  http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=5359407&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D%257CswItem%253Dob_125590_1%257CswEnvOID%253D4059%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

• I can't view the network connection after downgrade from Windows Vista business to Windows XP Professional.

  How can I view network connections after downgrade from Windows Vista business to Windows XP Professional. I have problems to install the drivers of my HP dc7800.

  Click Start > my network places > view network connections in the left pane.

  XP forums:

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/WindowsXP

  Link above is for XP Forums.

  There is a list of the different Forums XP to the link above to help you.

  You get the help you need there.

  Here is the Vista Forums.

  See you soon

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Satellite A300 - issue Downgrade from Vista to XP

  Hi all...
  IM intending to get rid of my windows Vista SP2 (32 bit) and XP SP3 (32 bit). My laptop is: [Satellite A300 - 1 G 5 | http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=EU&com.broadvis ion.session.new = Yes & PRODUCT_ID = 1055589].

  Now, I studied the topic before posting. When the first time I tried to install XP laptop does not recognize the CD of the OS and I failed. Later, I found a topic suggesting through the BIOS and change the HHD of ACHI to compatibility mode, so I did and it works but I have not installed yet. I have a few question reclassification process.

  1. once I have install the XP, can I put the AHCI mode? gives me a better performance (I really don't know what is ACHI!)
  2. this void my warranty?
  3. If I had a problem, the XP installation failed for some reason any and no OS on my laptop, will still be able to use the recovery DVDs to restore my laptop?
  4. now, the issue of the pilots. Here: [list of drivers Vista | http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU] and here: [list of Drivers XP | http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU], the question as follows:

  (A) some drivers exist in the list of drivers Vista but does NOT exist in XP driver list; as: DVD player, facial recognition, supervisor password, driver of the SRT, tiles for the mobility and WPS Library Center. What should I do?

  (B) is there a specific order to install drivers? as a driver for a device must exist before a driver to avoid conflicts or overwrite files?

  (C) there are several drivers for the same device, how to choose one? example: the Wireless Lan Driver has several companies (Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Atheros and Intel); which I will use?

  5. is it true that Vista is better than XP mobility? will (consumption and the heat of power management) XP my laptop do suffer from heat because the laptop is already packed with vista? I mean, they tried what OS fits perfectly on the machine, unless Toshiba push just Vista people because Microsoft needs that... lol

  ----------------------------------------------------------------

  Hope that my questions are clear, I had something else to ask, its a matter of opinion. are there advantages of Vista on XP? I use my laptop for some games and make some 3Ds MAX, which both require a lot of RAM, Vista eats up to 1 GB of my RAM, so that XP barely fill half a GB of RAM, that is my main concern when I decided to go for XP. I'd like to hear your opinions and experience life...

  Thanks in advance!

  Hello

  In my opinion there is no great reason to change to Windows XP Home edition OS. Optimize Vista can also run well and stable on your laptop. I was very skeptical on Vista but now after a year of use I can work very well with it. Soon we will again have Win7 and it should work much better than Vista.

  My point of view is in a hurry and do not always return to comfortable. Of course, you can do what you want and your decision is quite legitimate. I imagine that you will get better performance under Windows XP Home edition for all activities, that you do every day.

  I must also say that you did the right thing to pick up some info before you start the installation of Windows XP Home edition. On this forum, you can find a lot of interesting and useful discussions.

  Back to your questions:
  1 n ° best performance, you'll have under ACHI.

  # 2 you can install what you want.

  3 Yes, but only the DVD. F8 option no longer works and the image on the second partition will be useless.

  4
  At the drivers, tools and utilities are not the same for Vista new and old WXP. Install available stuff. It is not enough.
  B - generally YES. If you need help with this let know us.
  C you know what WLAN card is in your laptop. Check Device Manager under Vista.

  5 I didn't noticed any difference. Toshiba installs Windows XP Home edition for years and has good experience with this. You can use great Toshiba power saver tool in Windows XP Home edition and optimise energy consumption, cooling method and performance. In Vista, you can do the same.

  Good bye

• Satellite A300-14 - after Windows 7 installation no modem not recognized

  Hey guys, how are you?

  Unfortunately, I discovered today that the Modem is installed with the drivers on Windows Vista 32-bit, but does not work. However, I formatted my PC and installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and: no modems at all! I don't know why Device Manager is unable to see and my capture device.

  I need help guys.

  Thank you.

  My laptop is: Toshiba Satellite A300-14

  Hi dr.anm,

  Have you tried to reinstall the modem driver? I checked the Web from Toshiba site and I can find a driver of modem for Windows 7:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads > download drivers

  Check this box!

• Re: Satellite A300-1MS - after a few minutes DNS no longer works

  Hello

  I have a Satellite A300-1 ms with Windows Vista Home Premium SP2. What happens is that after a few minutes, surfing the web, I can't navigate more unless I restart the PC. It happened with SP1, SP2, IE7, IE8 and Firefox. The only service that stop working suddenly is browsing when "http://dns_domain" is entered in the Solution Explorer. These other services running ok:
  -Skype
  -updated windows
  -update anti-virus
  -http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (using IP instead of domain)
  -nslookup, so the connection to the dns server seems to be ok
  -ping to the router

  The only solution is to restart the PC (turn on/off the network interface or reboot the router does not resolve the issue)
  This happens with the help of wi - fi and wired LAN

  Does anyone have a clue on what could happen and how to solve?
  Thank you very much for reading this post!

  Hello

  Sounds like the system service domain name (DNS) stopped working after a few minutes. Please check the Services (start > run > services.msc) if the DNS client is always started. Also, try to restart this service. It work?

  What antivirus software or security is installed? Try to update and disable the software just to test.

  Sorry, but that's all I can say at the moment.

• Satellite A300 - 20 p - games with Windows 7 not working not not using full screen

  I have Satellite A300 - 20 p and VGA ATI 3650
  I did the upgrade to Windows 7 Professional

  All games works fine but not full screen. I installed the latest driver for ATI for Windows 7. He worked in full screen in Vista prior to upgrade.

  Same problem on my brother's cell phone after he made the upgrade to Windows 7.

  Hello

  Normally you can change the resolution of the screen in every game and if they should run full screen or not. Check this box!

  Can you also tell us what display driver you have installed? Pilots of the Toshiba page are for maps of office and not for mobile maps. So please only use the Toshiba drivers.

• Satellite A300-1LT - Webcam driver for Windows 7

  Hello

  I have a problem with my the right webcam driver after installing Windows 7 on my Satellite A300-1LT, I got win XP before and it works great. In downloads is available just for xp, vista 32-bit and 64-bit driver (I tried with the same results). Webcam app windows startup and gives me a msg of error that I have to reinstall or install new drivers of webcam. Webcam works for example. buth Skype with (very) poor quality.

  I tried to find wich cam comes (chicony?) also but nothing.

  Does Enyone else has experienced this problem and how to resolve? Help, please...

  Hi glava11,

  As far as I know that you can also use the Satellite A500 webcam driver because it s equipped of webcam Chicony too.

  So take a look for A500 downloads. There, you can find Windows 7 driver for webcam that should work on your model too.

  Check this box!

• Re: Satellite A300-1LT - after display driver update, I get an error message

  Hi all,

  I have A300-1LT PSAGCE and a update my toshiba Download Center display driver.

  ATI
  Type display driver
  Mobility Radeon HD 46xx/45xx/43xx subtype
  Size (KB) 108950
  Version 8.611
  Model Satellite L550, Satellite L500, Satellite A300, Satellite Pro A300
  Operating system Windows Vista 32-Bit

  When I reboot laptop computer error showed:

  "The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the version of the driver for your graphics to enable. If you please update your ATI graphics driver or enable your ATI card using the display manager. »

  Cannot find Manager displayer have only man of color. What should I do?

  Help, please!

  Thnx

  Hello!

  Well, for me it looks like you didn't uninstall the old display driver software. Before installing a newer version, you still need to delete the old version. So go in Control Panel > software. Select ATI display driver software and remove it. After restarting the laptop, you must clean the Windows system using CCleaner (Google is your friend to find it). Restart again and after that, you can install the latest version of page of Toshiba.

  I hope this works.
  Moreover, what graphics card do you have?

  Good bye

• Re: Satellite A300 PSAGCA-03C010 - downgrade from Vista to XP

  Hello

  I'm really new to all this, so I hope that will not ask a question that has already been answered :)

  I bought a laptop Toshiba Satellite A300 (model PSAGCA-03C010) in October 08. It came with a preinstalled version of Windows Vista Home Premium.

  Initially, using Vista was not too bad, but it happened at a point now where his things slows down and is really frustrating. Want to downgrade (/ upgrade) go back to Windows XP and I want to know the "implications" of this and if the Toshiba Utilities are consistent and will work with XP.

  First of all, can I use my ID current product that came with Vista and it enter the product ID when I install XP?

  Also, I am concerned about the Wi - fi, bluetooth, finger scan and HDMI applications - will this work with XP?

  Finally, when I created the "recovery disk", should everything go 'bad' when installing XP or if something does not work, can I use this recovery disc to return to the original "out of the box" installation?

  Thanks in advance and again once, apologies if these qns have already answered in other posts (im not too technical).

  Tamara

  > I'm really new to all this, so I hope that will not ask a question that has already been answered
  In many cases, these questions have been answered already and you might find useful views by using the Advanced ;) search option

  > Want to downgrade (/ upgrade) go back to Windows XP and I want to know the "implications" of this and if the Toshiba Utilities are consistent and will work with XP.
  Tools and Vista drivers are not compatible with Win XP. If you want to install Win XP and want to use all the features of the laptop you must make sure that the Win XP drivers are available for this model of laptop.

  Satellite A300 PSAGCA seems to be an Australian model. The drivers are placed here:
  http://www.ISD.Toshiba.com.au

  I checked this and found a few tools and drivers for this device.

  > First of all, can I use my ID current product that came with Vista and it enter the product ID when I install XP?
  No, you can not use it because it belongs to the Vista operating system preinstalled on your laptop.

  > Finally, when I created the "recovery disk", should everything go 'bad' when installing XP or if something does not work, can I use this recovery disc to return to the original "out of the box" installation?
  Yes, the recovery disk allows to reverse the laptop back to factory settings.
  You will get the same as on the first day of purchase

• Satellite A300-1 OC - problem installing Windows XP

  Hi all!

  Faced with the need to install * Windows XP * on my * Satellite A300-1OC. *.

  Here's the problem:
  the * pilot integrated distribution OS for the SATA downloaded from the Intel site.
  When you install XP no problem, but * when you drive where to install the system all the drive letters got mixed up *.
  As it has already established a system, the * laptop starts sometimes hang on for 2-3 minutes, then again normally.* operating

  Help solve this problem and recommend the correct SATA driver for my computer.
  And I would like to hear the difference, * if I set BIOS compatibility mode or leave AHCI.*

  + Thanks in advance. +

  Hello

  Please, read here:

  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=52625&TSTART=30

  It may be useful for you. The topic starter had the same problem, it instaled windows, compatible mode, and then extract the driver of the exe files.

• Satellite A300-1EG - after upgrade to Vista Premium lacks some options

  Floor of the year of return, that I bought the computer laptop Toshiba SATELLITE A300-1EG (short model No. PSAG4E). Due to some problems, it was necessary to reinstall Windows.

  Bought the laptop introduced Windows Vista Home. Now I have created Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. A problem with some drivers, I can't adjust brightness and sharpness of the screen, and the screen guests do not work. Writing "or screen prompt updated video card is required, or the video card compatible with Direct3D" is necessary.

  Help please!

  Hello

  I think that you didn t install the driver on the right graphics card
  It seems that your laptop supports the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 graphics chip and I think that you should simply reinstall the graphics driver on the European driver Toshiba page

  What do you think?

• I can't use the Wi - Fi after downgrading my windows!

  Hello, I'm Loh. Today, I have a problem on my computer laptop that is why I would like to ask you this question.

  I bought the new laptop HP, which is 'HP Pavilion 15-p031tx Notebook PC Drivers' and at first by default, Windows 8.1 was unique language, which was not enabled, in my laptop. Then I want to use the functionality of windows 8, I downgraded to windows 8 pro with the spark of dream. After that, I realized that I can't connect to the internet and I saw computer manager, there is no network drivers in my laptop!

  So now I would like to download the driver for windows 8 pro wifi adapter. But I could not find where and how. I need your help as soon as possible.

  The controller material properties in my laptop network ID are

  PCI\VEN_14E4 & DEV_4365 & SUBSYS_2230103C & REV_01

  PCI\VEN_14E4 & DEV_4365 & SUBSYS_2230103C

  PCI\VEN_14E4 & DEV_4365 & CC_028000

  PCI\VEN_14E4 & DEV_4365 & CC_0280

  You are the very welcome.

  If you have a Broadcom wireless card then you will need to use the wireless Broadcom for W8.1 driver

  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-136550-1 & CC = US & DLC = in & LC = on & os = 4158 & Product = 7169861 & sw_lang =

  Not sure why it does not work. I don't think it matters if you run W8.1 or W8.1 Pro on your machine.

  The drivers are the same.