Comments on: Windows Vista on Toshiba Satellite M30 - Hardware ,Drivers — RTM Update

By: boogerman

boogerman — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:27:35 +0000

I installed Vista_98.13 from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com on my Satellite M30 and everything seems to be OK (Aero + games)

However, I can not get windows to turn off the display or change its brightness. Even when I close the lid, the display does not turn off (it remains on).

I downloaded “TOSHIBA Value Added Package” from Toshiba’s website (download section for Satellite M30), and I got the toshiba power saver, FN keys and the like, but I still can not turn off the display.

Any suggestions?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:17:52 +0000

Please help!!

I have tried everything and am about to lanch this Toshiba M30 into space. Please could someone help and email me the com modules and chipset to trevorwoodman@hotmail.com. I have tried downloading them and it does not work. I would also like a link to the display drivers as when I down load the file from nvidia it will not let me see the files in order to change them.

Many thanks,

Trevor

By: Besim

Besim — Sat, 19 May 2007 02:53:39 +0000

Hey guys thanks a bunch for all this info. I have successfully installed the nvidia driver for my m30 as well as the value added package. Rating is now at 2.0. Can somebody still post those beta drivers somewhere, though?

I got aero and 3d flip working perfectly, all function keys working except for f2, but I have a weird problem: My dvd rom drive only reads dvds and fails to recognise CDs. Is this related to some driver that I have not loaded? Could this be the intel chipset one? I am using the retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate.

Any help appreciated.

Besim.

By: maDcoW

maDcoW — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:07:51 +0000

Hi
I tried what was suggested at the top of this page.
My score started with 1.0.
Now my score is 2.5
Those four line sure made a difference. This whole article improved my Satellite M30 - 7101U.
What started as a vista upgrade ended when I maxed out the memory to 2 G. That helped alot. Made things abit smQQther, performance wise.
I found a WD - EIDE 120G (5400rpm).
So that’s it.
My Toshlite is running reasonably good, touch wood.
I’m going to run this “baby” into the ground.
Thanx to the author for the “four lines” of code for the nVidia.

maDcoW

By: Raymond

Raymond — Tue, 08 May 2007 05:24:22 +0000

Video driver: I used the NVIDIA 96.85 Forceware Vista driver, modified the nv_disp.inf with the following lines:
%NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0328.1% = nv_NV3x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0328
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0328.1 = “NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 32/64M ”
installed the driver using the “Have Disk” method. Now Aero works fine. However I noticed that even I set the power management to turn off the display after a certain period of time, the screen does blank out, however the backlight stays on. Does anyone notice this and has a solution? I have also tried the 158.18 driver, but it does not fix the backlight problem, so I revert back to the 96.85 driver.

Also none of the Fn hotkeys work.

By: Ferry

Ferry — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:16:24 +0000

I managed to find the driver for Hotkey utilities v 2.9.3.0, but it didnt seem to work. I still cant use the Fn F1 - Fn F12 keys. Any idea to solve it? Thanks.

By: Moe

Moe — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:05:56 +0000

Man i need those 3 drivers also can some actually post them up somewhere like on rapidshare.com

By: Charles Khoury

Charles Khoury — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:13:23 +0000

hello i have stelitte pro m30 i have installed vista, i need those drivers, but the link you provide is broken , so how can i have them,?

By: shifty

shifty — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:27:02 +0000

u can try http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13030

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:35:56 +0000

I’ve given up. I just can’t get my graphics score to 2, so no visual goodies. The rest of Vista is stable so far, but so was XP!!!!! Wondering if I should have bought a new laptop… like a million other people…