66.81 nvidia drivers prob on Toshiba M200 tablet

#1

Anyone have luck installing the beta drivers on the toshiba protege m200 tablet?

I just realized that after intalling and restarting that they are still 4.9.1 or something like that. They won’t update. I remember someone else with this laptop mentioned using modo here.

#2

I have not gotten round to updating my drivers yet but have a fairly good idea of what is needed.

Visit www.laptopvideo2go.com and get a modified .inf for the driver version you want to install. Follow the instructions on uninstalling and installing the driver. That would be the procedure for a standard laptop. But with the tablet PC you apparently need to perform some extra steps so as to not affect the pen interface. Check this TabletPCBuzz.com forum thread for those steps.

I will probably update my drivers this weekend and will report any problems.

#3

Followed the steps from the links above and have succesfully installed the 66.93 drivers. It now says 66.93 in the driver info.

I don’t know what to tell you that is not mentioned in the above links. But in any case here is what I did.

  1. Went to www.laptopvideo2go.com and downloaded the performance and laptop tweaked .inf for the 66.93 driver. You could also download the non performance tweaked version, both are modified for laptops.
  2. Download the 66.93 driver from the same page.
  3. Extract the 66.93 driver into a folder.
  4. Modify the downloaded .inf from step 1 in a text editor. Search for “RotateFlag” and change the number “4” at the end of that line to “0x40”
  5. Copy the modified .inf into the folder you extracted the driver to. You need to overwrite the .inf in that folder.
  6. Update the Toshiba Rotation Utility.
  7. In Windows Device Manager update your display adapter driver by choosing “Have Disk” and redirecting to our modified .inf.
  8. Download this RotateFix program which is required to ensure the cursor does not lag when you rotate the screen orientation on a Tablet PC.
  9. Either run the above RotateFix program everytime you need it or place it in your startup folder (I did, no problems yet).

Modo is running fine, No warning message when it starts and a slightly improved display speed.

Hope you get it working.

Of course I had to go and perform a complete windows reinstall, install XP service pack 2 and all the latest drivers. Now, everything works fine except after 4-5 minutes where any attempts to access the network requires 4-5-7-12 tries before it will succed. This goes for any network activty. Deactivating my network and enabling it again solves it, for 4-5 minutes:scream:.

Don’t worry the above drivers are not to blame. The problem existed before I installed them.

If anyone knows what is going on then please let me know, this is driving me nuts. Sure is going to be fun at work tomorrow, disable network, enable network, disable… ad nauseoum.

I have an Intel Pro 100 / VE adaptor in the Toshiba M200. Any ideas?

#4

Wow, thanks for the help. did you install adaware and spybot search and destroy? go to download.com to get them. There area a few pieces of adware that did the same to some clients of mine.

Also make sure your antivirus is up to date.’

if all of that is fine then look further afield. check your wires/cable modem etc. turn them on and off if you are using wireless then put a passward on your router as others could be using for limewire/bittorrent/kazaa which can cause issues.

THanks for the help have to try the new drivers now.

#5

Oh I forgot that there are actually updates to all the software for sp2 for toshiba if you have the m200. the power manager gives me error messages so it may need to be uninstalled before you reinstall teh new drivers. there is an knowledge base note about it on toshiba site

#6

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried all sorts of things to solve my problem and then, suddenly, it was gone. I still have no idea what caused it.

My M200 is now chugging away doing what it does best, Undo commands :wink:

Hope you got the driver working.

btw, You would not happen to know which file on the Toshiba site is the Power Management app, the one that comes preinstalled. I must be blind but I could not find it. Perhaps they have not updated it.

And do you by any chance hook a 2nd tablet, such as an Intuos, into your M200. For example when hooked up to a monitor. Are there any problems after installing the wacom intuos/penpartner/graphire drivers? Don’t want to mess my system up now that it running so lovely.

#7

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