Needs ATI driver for XP Pro Radeon Xpress200M

[ForceMajeur]

I removed VISTA BASIC from my TOSHIBA A135-2286 laptop and installed XP Pro. The GPU on the laptop is the Graphics Chipset * : Radeon® Xpress 200M and the ATI XP Pro 7.1 catalyst video driver is deemed INCOMPATIBLE with the Graphics Chipset * : Radeon® Xpress 200M. Is there any ATI driver that I can install that will allow me to dump the std VGA driver that I'm using now? Ive a hard time believing that ATI does not support its own GPU on this laptop, unless TOSHIBA conspired with Megasloth?

Thanks!

 

[Fardringle]

You need to use the Radeon Mobility drivers. The regular Catalyst drivers won't work.

You can get the full driver suite (including the Catalyst Control Panel and south bridge driver) from ATI/AMD here.

Or, if you just want the drivers without the Control Panel, you can get them here.

 

[ForceMajeur]

Thank you and those Radeon drivers Ive tried--however, Ive noticed that the VGASave driver is in effect now on my XP Pro and what little research Ive done indicates that the std VGA driver is not shown as a choice for this TOSHIBA motherboard. How do I a) determine the motherboard inside my A135-S2286 laptop and b) where would I obtain the motherboard drivers so that I can install the VGA driver followed by the Radeon driver? Right now my Device Manager does not show any diplay adapter at all!

Thanks for your expertise.

 

[Fardringle]

The south bridge chipset driver is included as part of the package in the first link I posted. It is also available as a separate download in the second link. If that driver doesn't work, then you'll probably have to get a driver directly from Toshiba. However, Toshiba only provides Vista drivers for your laptop on their web site (here) so if you need other chipset or device drivers you may have to contact Toshiba support directly to see if they are able to give you XP drivers.

As far as finding out what motherboard is in the laptop, it is likely a proprietary board built specifically for Toshiba, but you might get lucky with a utility like SiSoft Sandra.

 

[ForceMajeur]

Thanks for the direction...I appreciate it. The other problem I see is that the chipset, Ethernet, PCI, and USB controller are also without drivers in the view of the Device Manager under XP Pro onthis laptop. Cant seem to determine if any drivers exist for the onboard chipset or the video Xpress 200M chip. The South Bridge driver installed fine but I still cant get the WiFi or the video to operate (except with the VGASave driver). Any other ideas that I might have missed in my oversight?

Thank you.

 

[Joel Leavitt]

I had display and WiFi problems with my A-135-S2276. The WiFi works great after installing the ta8wlanax driver at

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais...cceaddkffmmfelcgfkceghdgngdgnj.0&ct=DL

Now, I'm going to try your graphics fix.

Thanks... Hard to believe MS actually released that piece of s*** called Vista.

 

[corkyg]

Generally speaking, ATI Mobility GPU drivers must come from the laptop OEM. This is by agreement between them. So, you need to get all the appropriate drives from Toshiba.

This is common when people install an OS that the laptop did not come with. All your graphics, sound and some other drivers get wiped out and those functions don't work.

Go to Toshiba's site and get the drivers you need for your model.