Can't find SCSI drivers for motherboard ...

[vpwin7]

Laptop model: A505-S6960

Motherboard
Manufacturer TOSHIBA
Model Portable PC
Version PSAP0U-007007
Chipset Vendor Intel
Chipset Model GM45/GM47
Chipset Revision 07
Southbridge Vendor Intel
Southbridge Model 82801IM (ICH9-M)
Southbridge Revision 03
BIOS
Brand INSYDE
Version 1.70
Date 09/15/2009

Chipset
Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T6500
Cores 2
Threads 2
Name Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T6500
Code Name Penryn
Package Socket P (478)
Technology 45nm
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6500 @ 2.10GHz


Hard Drives
Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 ATA Device
Manufacturer Hitachi
Product Family Travelstar
Series Prefix Standard
Speed, Expressed in Revolutions Per Minute (rpm) 5400
Model capacity for this specific drive 500GB
SATA type SATA-II 3.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
48-bit LBA Supported
Serial Number 090803PB4300QTHZ5SZA
Interface SATA

I wish to dual boot Windows XP Professional 64bit, but I cannot without SCSI drivers. Within the bios I have an option to set my SATA drive to 'compatibility' but when done Windows 7 ceases to boot. I either need Windows XP to recognize the drive with normal settings, or Windows 7 to load properly with compatibility enabled. If I could locate the SCSI drivers I could merge an iso using nLite, any help would be appreciated, thank you.

 

[SledgeDG]

Try Toshiba directly...there are 157 downloadable items for your laptop

Model Content Page

Good Luck
-DG

 

[vpwin7]

Try Toshiba directly...there are 157 downloadable items for your laptop

Model Content Page

Good Luck
-DG

That was the first place I went, they did not have them. I did find them on Intels website though after trying to figure out the board model (was able to identify the needed drivers by the southbridge model #). Turns out Windows XP x64 isn't very well supported, and there are missing drivers for lots of things! Scrapped the OS, but resolved, thank you

 

[Lunarpancake]

This is one of the many reasons I refuse and advise to NOT buy Toshiba products.


1) they do not support their own products

2) they require you to bring your broken product to a "local certified toshiba repair facility" (local one to me is over 40miles)

3)I have never witnessed hardware failure at the rate toshiba hardware fails. (just about every single person I have come across with a toshiba product has had it fail) Hell, we buy a ton of Dell products (about $100,000.00 worth a year) and we dont have anywhere even remotely close to the failures like we see in Toshiba stuff.


Your best best to find those drivers is to find out exactly what motherboard and/or SCSI controller you have and find the drivers from the manufacturers websites. Forget about toshiba.

 

[pricetech]

Have you thought about installing XP in a VM ?? It's another alternative.