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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: comda on September 03, 2010, 11:59:30 AM

Title: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: comda on September 03, 2010, 11:59:30 AM

Ok so I received this Toshiba Laptop that needs drivers. I used Uniblue driver scanner last year but the 2010 edition only scanes for driver updates. I need a driver scanner that will tell me what type of driver I need to download from the program. Is there any program like that. 

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: 2x3i5x on September 03, 2010, 12:39:51 PM

go to the downloads page (http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp?nav=Download) direct from Toshiba's official website.

Just follow their model selection tool to find the stuff for your particular laptop model and it should list what's available for you.

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: comda on September 03, 2010, 12:48:38 PM

the drivers toshiba has are bad. not all the drivers are there and some are missing files or damaged. Im a big mad at toshiba and they want 45 $ for the recovery disk. I don't sleep on cash

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: Broni on September 03, 2010, 08:52:04 PM

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the drivers toshiba has are bad. not all the drivers are there and some are missing files or damaged

I highly doubt it.
How do you know?

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: patio on September 03, 2010, 11:20:11 PM

He'sa kidding...right ?

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: comda on September 04, 2010, 08:52:47 AM

im not joking, i went on toshibas web site a found a number for their recovery disk help desk and the guy told me it was $45 because it included the windows XP installation on it. I asked if i could get a disk with just the drivers and he said I could look on the web site so i told him they were bad and missing and he told me whats there is there he can't do nothing about it and then he hung up! Im so mad at them. School starts on tuesday and Im without a computer.

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: patio on September 04, 2010, 09:05:38 AM

I would have posted the machine info by now if i needed this resolved...
But that's just me.

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: comda on September 04, 2010, 09:17:12 AM

ok you got it

2.70 GHz processor
512 Mb RAM
40 GB hard drive
dvd rom cd rw
WLAN

Toshiba Satellite A40

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: Broni on September 04, 2010, 09:38:56 AM

What drivers are missing and how do you know, drivers from Toshiba site are corrupted?

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: comda on September 04, 2010, 10:19:34 AM

well the drivers that are missing are the display, e-thernet, modem(not that ill be needing that) and the Fn keys and the media keys to dvd player. I know there missing or corrupt because the device doesn't work and on the add new hardware it says all are missing but the display. The display is bad because the driver is installed but any media playes bad.

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: patio on September 04, 2010, 10:32:05 AM

You need to go to the Toshiba site...DLoad ALL drivers for that machine and re-install them...
MBoard chipset drivers go 1st...

Title: Re: Driver Scanner?! For Toshiba Satellite A40
Post by: Broni on September 04, 2010, 10:34:29 AM

There are 4 models of A40.
Which one is yours?
S161
S1611
S270
S2701