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Windows 7 64 bit on Toshiba Satellite A200

Posted in 1 by kenno on August 8, 2009

I just finished installing Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate edtion on my 1+ year old Toshiba laptop. The model is Satellite A200-*****.

The installation went smoothly, well almost. On the first boot, the graphic card driver, the finger print reader were automatically updated with Windows update. The only two devices which weren’t detected are: unknown device “ACPI\TOS6205″ (bluetooth) and the Texas Instrument 5-in-1 card reader. The 64-bit driver for the bluetooth can be downloaded from: http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/bluetooth/ thanks to this post at Toshiba Laptop forum.

Unfortunately, I haven’t found the place to download the driver for the card reader yet. Oh well, it doesn’t bother me that much; so I’m just gonna leave it for now.

What’s next? I have to restore Grub bootloader so that I can boot back into Debian. :-)

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  1. JessicaD said, on August 10, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Kenno,

    Microsoft does have an official Windows 7 RC Support Forum located here http://tinyurl.com/9fhdl5 . It is supported by product specialists as well as engineers and support teams. You may want to check the threads there for additional assistance with driver support.

    Jessica
    Microsoft Windows Client Team

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  2. Kenno said, on August 11, 2009 at 4:12 am

    Thanks, Jessica. I’ll check it out.

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  3. john-rock said, on August 13, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    try this one. i haven’t tried it yet but i found some windows 7 forums that suggested it. i’m going to try installing windows 7 pro 64bit today.

    http://forum.vista-driver.org/index.php?showtopic=285&pid=1871&st=0&#entry1871

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  4. ahmet said, on September 23, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    You can use the TIPCI driver published for the Windows Vista x64 version. It works flawlessly.

    Actually, you can use the x64 versions of Vista for cam too – to have that setting page again.

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  5. scott said, on November 2, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    i have also got this one to work

    http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=1998671&rpn=PSPB9U&modelFilter=&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768663&selModel=1998671|PSPB9U#

    on the category drop down, select ‘SD’

    trying to find the correct keyboard setup as things seem to be all over the place!

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  6. Jk said, on November 22, 2009 at 12:14 am

    To the correct keybord setup, you go to the Control Panel, Region and Language, Keybords and Languages, and click on “change Keyboards”. Then, choose your country (to be more precise, choose the Language of Keyboard type ), apply and test the special characteres

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