Windows xp drivers for toshiba satellite p205-s6307

Aug 21, 2008

- When I decided to Downgrade/Upgrade my P205-s6337 to Windows XP Pro, Like everyone else I found out that toshiba just wasnt supporting
XP on their new systems. So started the search for drivers. I spent a few hours and finally got them all together and
got the laptop where I wanted it to be.

Ok here's what I decided to do, Firstly I installed windows XP, got all the drivers installed and made sure
there were no driver errors or any missing drivers.
Then I used Driver magician and backed all the drivers into a folder.
I then put a copy of driver magician into the folder, compressed it using winrar on max compression and uploaded
it to my server. Install the demo of driver magician and use it to do a driver restore for the drivers in that file.
Archive size is 21mb and uncompresses to 71mb
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205driversplus.rar
I then got all of the drivers that I had used and compresses them into a rar file using winrar and max compression
These are all seperate folders when the archive is uncompressed.
The reason for splitting them into 10mb files is because i have a sucky upload speed and I kept getting errors when i tried to upload
one big file or even split into 2.
Archive size is 134mb uncompresses to 140mb, Reason is the drivers inside are mostly all the Original exe files.
Hopefully this will help you if you have a p205.
I used these on a p205-s6337. I know they will work with other models as the hardware used accross toshiba models seems
to be pretty standard. I didnt include the driver for the camera, its a real easy one to get and i sont use the camera on the laptop
the resolution is way to low for my purposes. I have a sd/video camera hooked up
Atheros Wireless Lan
Chipset Driver
Controller Driver
Flash Card Driver
Realtek Driver (lan)
Agere Modem
SD Reader Utils
Realtek High Definition Audio Drivers
Intel Matrix Storage Manager
Fingerprint Utility with Drivers
Mobile Intel 945 Drivers
Wireless Lan Intel Drivers

http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part01.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part02.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part03.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part04.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part05.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part06.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part07.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part08.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part09.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part10.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part11.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part12.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part13.rar
http://www.celtekusa.net/uploads/p205drivers.part14.rar
As an end note. I have upgraded the ram in the laptop to 4gig and replaced the 200gig hard drive with a 350 gig.
Installed Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit
I get a windows Index score on the memory and processor of 4.8, 4.7 on the hardrive. But only 3.3 on the graphics card.
There's no way to upgrade the graphics on this system that I have found and Toshiba says there is absolutely no way to do it.
All in all with the upgraded ram and drive and a 64bit OS I feel pretty comfortable with the system now
Enjoy the drivers

Jun 13, 2008

- I have the same laptop: P205-S6307. This is what I did:


XP
After taking it out of the box I pressed the power button just to see the Toshiba Logo. I shut the power off and installed Windows XP. One of the first questions they ask is where one wants it installed. I removed all the partitions and created two roughly equal sized partitions and formatted the first one and installed XP. I had to use another system to download some of the drivers – especially for the LAN and wireless drivers. Once I was connected to the internet I ran Windows Update and under the hardware listing, found more drivers and installed them. Some of the Vista drivers will work in XP but most do not. Make sure you go to intel.com for the chipset drivers if you are running XP.

Vista
I borrowed a Vista DVD from a friend and installed it with his key. With the LAN driver
Installed, I called Microsoft because the OS had to have the key changed to the correct one on the bottom of the laptop.

Now I had two operating systems running on the same machine because Vista detected that XP was installed on the hard drive. It installed a boot loader – a little window that pops up after the Toshiba Logo finishes – that gives me the option of running one or the other.

I’ve been using this laptop for a year now and Vista runs noticeably faster than XP –particularly with video creation and editing. No drivers are available for your SD card slot so far and it appears that the keyboard functions won’t work as designed to – Mainly the “FN” key functions. The web cam software is pretty cool but doesn’t even work completely in Vista and not at all in XP.

A few last things: You cannot install Vista first. XP has to installed first and that’s not just on the laptop but any system. If you partitioned th Hard Drive correctly, when running either OS you will have two hard drives designated C an D or C and E. the free space is available to both operating systems. Do not get them confused. The drive letters may be switched because your boot disk is C in both Operating Systems but XP is on drive "0" and Vista is on drive "1". Don't be scared...you just have to get used to it. If you are using MS Office, you will have to have at least the 2003 suite for Vista.


Have fun...I learned a few things form doing it this way

Bill.