Satellite A205-S5804 and WinXP (BSOD on first boot) - Any help appreciated!

[amxguy]

Okay, maybe I'm just not getting it, but I've tried a few approaches in an attempt to install WinXP on my Toshiba A205-S5804 laptop. I did the slipstream WinXP with SP2 and DriverPacks Mass Storage. I tried the approach on the Toshiba website, which is to use a USB floppy drive and hit F6 during the disc boot to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. I even did a disk partition in an attempt at a dual-boot.
Every time it gets to the 'Install XP' point, I get the 'Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer' error.
According to others on this site, it is possible to do this, but I am really having a difficult time. Could someone who has successfully downgraded (upgraded, actually) their system from Vista to XP please tell me how they did it? I very much appreciate the help and advice.

Thank you !

[jammmieus]

Hi Guys,

I used the guide posted at http://www.tamalecart.com/toshibaA20...ista_to_XP.pdf for the process.
It was really helpful & very easy to follow. I was able to install XP SP2 & Sound card drivers, but somehow my network adapter & wireless network card is not working.
I tried so many dirvers but nothing helped. I was wondering if anyone could help me getting my network to work.
Please let me know if you need me to provide any info from my side for you to help me if at all possible,

I would really appreciate any help as I'm stuck with a non-networked laptop at this point of time & I really can't use Vista as XP is the requirements at my wife's school.

Please help.

Thanks

[jammmieus]

Originally Posted by arcadia2uk

Regarding the issue with the audio driver. I found a slipstream walkthrough for a A200 PSAE3C model using nLite; I guess this is a similar European version,

http://www.tamalecart.com/toshibaA200/downgrade_Vista_to_XP.pdf

explaining the pain with the HD Audio, and as the author says "It must be the driver named hdaudbus.inf" extracted from the hotfix kb888111xpsp2.exe, the hotfix itself woun't work.
You also need to slipstream the ICH8 HBM/AHCI SATA DRIVER.
Also remember it will only work on Win XP SP2.
All other drivers are apparently compatible (I wonder about the modem though?).
Anyway, to make it simple you can probably use i.e. Driver Genius Pro to "extract"/backup all drivers and burn the together with the Realtek HD Audio driver and the SATA Driver to a separate CD, used for system configuration after XP install.
So use the pre-installed Vista version to prepare your slipstream and to backup the drivers.
I have not yet tried this, but I will give it a go tonight, and hopefully it is as simple as it seems.
I tried AJR's suggestion with driverpack's slipstream, but I constantly had a BSOD, even with Mass Storage driver v7.12.1 and the even newer v8.1.15.
Hopefully this will do.

And it did! Everything is up and running, though I had to run driverpacks slipstream first and then pass this one through nlite, where I could burn a bootable CD. This is the big issue I presume, you have to burn in a bootable mode, not just burn... (This mistake costed me hours of frustration and about 15 useless CD's)

The only issue I have left is the display driver, but I can live with it (I have some yellow! marking on these, not 100% compatible apparenty, but working. The system will not accept the driver from the Intel website and refers in the errormessage to the manufacturer, but I still have a resolution of 1024/768. I'll try some more tonight i'd really like the possibility of 1280/1024 stated.
Anyway, I just found some drivers on the German Toshiba site, once everything tested I'll post a link with all drivers needed - there was actually quite a few to update.

Hey Arcadia,

As mentioned in your earlier post, you were going to post the links for drivers that you update & test.
Would you be able to post the links to network adapter & wireless card driver link, both of these are not working for me after installing XP SP2.

Thanks

[JunkInternetMail]

I'm new to slipstreaming and could use a few words of advice.

My XP is:

Windows XP Professional w/SP2 and all updates integrated December 2007.

I've already downloaded all the driverpacks and nlite.
All I am trying to do it slipstream the sata drivers into XP.

Without these drivers, my XP installation cannot see the hard drive.
Any help?

[JunkInternetMail]

I got XP installed and plan on posting my method(s) after I get some sleep.

In the meantime, can anyone share links to working XP drivers?

The intel video drivers worked 100%.

I am in need of:

Audio, LAN, WLAN, SMBUS, MODEM (not really important - modems suck).

Do Vista drivers work for XP in this machines case?

Thanks,
JUNK

[Zhen831]

After installing XP.

Since that was such an awesome guide. I must do my part.
Here are all the drivers, tested on A205-S5804.

http://www.isd.toshiba.com.au/71/liv...341133&x=8&y=5

[JimmyJohnson]

Zhen8301,

Thank you for the great contribution. It looks like the copied url included a session ID that now says "Session Expired" I took out the session ID in the url and came up with this link:

http://www.isd.toshiba.com.au/71/liv...341133&x=8&y=5

which goes to a page with drivers for the Satellite A200-(PSAF3A). Can you please confirm that is the page you meant to go to?

[mindfield]

Hey guys I can`t figure out how to enter BIOS setup on my Toshiba A205

There is no F2 invitation on first screen with Toshiba logo, so I tried to press and hold Esc like it is described on toshiba web-support, but it does not work either. The problem is that I loaded default BIOS settings occasionally due to previous checksum error, and now the system apparently can`t find HDD and writes "Operational system not found". But I CANT enter BIOS anyhow!

No F1 prompt, no F2, I tried these keys when laptop starts - no effect. BIOS = phoenix, I believe.

Any suggestions? I will appreciate your help

[Zhen831]

Sorry about that...I was so excited to post the drivers. Yes, I used all the drivers for A200-(PSAF3A). I have a A205-5804, PSAF3U, and all the drivers worked beautifully.

They are from Toshiba.au. XP is working great, and I have all drivers loaded and working great.

[Zhen831]

Its definitely the F2 key. try tab to bypass the splash screen and then f2. Good luck.