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Question

Missing drivers at reinstall of XP home

by Jul 30, 2013 4:48PM PDT

I have just done a reinstall of my xp home and have the following issues.

*No wireless icon on internet options

In device manager I have Yellow ? marks on the following

*Ethernet controller
*Multimedia audio controller
*PCI modem
*SM bus controller
*VGA controller.

I have tried to reinstall 4 times now and still get the same.

Any help please. Many thanks

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Clarification Request
Sorry but you'll have to tell more.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 31, 2013 12:57AM PDT

I went to http://www.toshiba.co.uk/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=UK but maybe you have an AUS model. As such I can't go to 50 web sites and check for drivers.

In the future tell all so folk can help you faster. It may be that the drivers are not there but you bring up a good point. Is the Windows model broken when you can't restore your PC? Is it time for something like the tablets where you can't install another OS?
Bob

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Re: missing drivers
by Forum moderator Jul 30, 2013 4:51PM PDT

That's easy. Find the drivers and install them. Just like the first time you installed XP.

Kees

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Missing drivers
by sensei1234 Jul 30, 2013 5:53PM PDT

Hi kees,

Have tried by "right clicking" on yellow ? mark and update driver. Says "cant find them " ? Need help. Dont want to have to go out and buy new op system.

many thanks

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Re: drivers
by Kees_B Forum moderator Jul 30, 2013 6:07PM PDT

No need to buy a new OS because it won't have the drivers either.

The usual way to NOT need drivers:
1. Reinstall from the recovery disks that came with the PC or that it let you make. They contain everything that is needed.
2. Reinstall by booting from the recovery partition.

Some people (like you?) lost the recovery disks or never made them, or install on a blank hard disk. Then this won't work. Or the PC didn't come with recovery disks, but only a Windows install disk and separate driver disks.

In all those cases you need to do a separate install of the drivers after you installed Windows.
The usual places to find them:
1. The CD's that came with your PC when you bought it (like a drivers and utilities CD).
2. The site of the maker of the PC or the device.

Then we have the unlucky cases of buyiing a second hand PC wihout the original disks or downgrading from Windows 7 to Windows XP. They can have a very hard time finding everything they need, and quite often it won't work at all.

Your post doesn''t tell anything relevant to discriminate between all these possibilities. But in any case, you'll be the one to start hunting for drivers now..

Kees

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Toshiba Equium M50-244 drivers
by sensei1234 Jul 31, 2013 12:05AM PDT

Hi Kees,

Ive tried Toshiba and the model is defunked and they offer no support ? Any ideas where i can dowload from ?

many thanks Ken

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Re: toshiba
by Kees_B Forum moderator Jul 31, 2013 12:23AM PDT

With some luck https://www.google.com/search?q=toshiba+m50-244+drivers leads a site where you can download all drivers you need for free.
With some bad luck the link leads to sites where you have to pay for downloads that turn out not to work once you installed them.

That's the fate for people who don't mind about saving or making oir buying recovery disks while it still can. Sorry for that.

Of course, the value of a 2006 laptop like this is practically nothing. I find onie on eBay for 49 english pound, approximately USD 75, which I thnik is some USD 60 more than anybody reasonably would pay for it if it fully worked. So not much is lost if you can't find drivers.

Kees

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Closing the barn door after the horse is out
by Jul 31, 2013 12:58AM PDT

As Kees has pointed out, the way to reinstall is to use the restore discs or partition supplied by Toshiba. Anything else is like closing the barn door after the horse is out. Sad Both my last Toshiba laptop and my current one had a utility under Start -> All Programs -> Toshiba for creating these, and the user guide provided info about this. On my current 19 month old Toshiba L755 there's a folder called Tosapins with a SETUP program that is used to install drivers and Toshiba utilities. Of course if you didn't back that up before reinstalling, you're SOL.
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