Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 issues?

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Hi. I have an old Toshiba Tecra S1 laptop witch in theory should be suitable to run Windows 7.

It has a Centrino 1.3GHz processor.

I have maxed it out with 2 GB of Ram.

I have also replaced the hard drive with an 80GB hard drive.

The graphics processor is AGP 4x - ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 - 32.0 MB DDR SDRAM

So the graphics is low for Windows 7 but shouldn't be to much of a problem if I'm just going to be using the laptop for basic tasks. If I can change the video SD Ram from 32 MB to 256 MB then that would be excellent, I might push it and see if 512 MB video SD ram will work on it.

I have installed Windows 7 to this laptop witch took about 30 minutes to install witch I thought was pretty good for an old laptop.

The issues I am having is that none of my hardware is installed I am missing all the drivers.

I have no sound
No WiFi
No Bluetooth
No Chip set 
This laptop originally had Windows XP so all the hardware was supported by Windows XP and from what I understand XP drivers should run under Windows 7. Windows 7 also has XP mode?

I have not used Windows 7 before as I'm use to using Mac/Linux.

Is there a way I can somehow update or get Windows 7 to locate all the drivers I need via the internet through some kinda update? I'm not sure how it works on Windows 7 or what I have to do?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks.

? · Accepted Answer

That processor is fast enough to run Windows 7, but it won't be that pretty. There are no official Windows 7 drivers for that laptop. I'd try installing the Windows XP drivers. They should work for the most part in Windows 7. You may have to run the installers in compatibilty mode if they refuse to install. Install the chipset driver before anything else. Keep in mind that Windows 7 is very bloated compared to XP, so expect slowness. I personally would keep XP or go with a lightweight Linux distro, but it's your choice.

Drivers here: http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome?freeT...

Drivers here: http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome?freeText=380605

gotAnswer · Answer

You need to re-download the drivers of you laptop to work but there's another issue you will in-counter soon. The processor speed is only 1.3 Ghz. this is too slow for windows 7 to get around specially when the updates of the operating system was downloaded. My advice to you is just get a new one and sell the old one might be there's still want it just for the little kid who wants to play also the computer.

David · Answer

Camthesaxman is right, I found a few vista drivers here which should work
http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU

You could try the intel website for archived chipset drivers, if you can workout which chipset is fitted. 
HTH
David

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