Windows 7

[russwilliston]

Good morning,

I installed Windows 7 Home Premium on my Satelite X205-9359.  I installed the 64-bit edition, via a clean install on a new partition, with a retail upgrade CD.

After installation I installed the drivers, registry patch, etc from support.toshiba.com following the order listed in the PDF instructions.

Every thing is working great, except that I'm getting distortions on my screen -- periodically a series of what appear to be black horitonal lines will appear across the middle and lower third on my display.  They appear for less than a second, and then dissapear.  They appear more frequently in the first few minutes after booting.  Sometimes I don't get any, other times they'll appear in 10-15 second intervals. 

FYI, I had the same problem with one of the early Windows 7 Betas when I used drivers downloaded from Nvidia.  I never found a solution, but going back to Windows Vista and using display drivers from support.toshiba.com worked without problems.

[russwilliston]

It came with 32-Bit Vista Ultimate installed.  But Toshiba released 64 bit Windows 7 drivers for this model, along with 32 bit ones.

[cee_64]

Since they released 64bit drivers as well as instructions for installing 64bit windows 7 on that system they SHOULD support it.  That doesn't mean that they will do anything about it as Jerry has stated.

[jim]

It looks like what is currently available from Toshiba is 186.42 but nVidia's 186.81 can be downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winvista_win7_x64_186.81_whql.html.

Jim

[russwilliston · Accepted solution]

FYI to anyone with this problem and a 8700M graphics chipset:

On a tip, I tried the 182.46 drivers, downloaded from this site:

http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/23484-forceware-182-46/

This works great.  The drivers are from March 2009, and you have to click through a notification that you're not using Windows Vista.  But that aside, they've been flawless in everything that I've tried today.  (I've only tried this within Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit)

[cee_64]

Good to know.  I'll make a note of this for future reference.  I'm sure it's going to come up again.... and again....  and again.........

[nleal]

I have the same Laptop, also tried the 186.81 from Nvdia on Vista 32 and have the same problem with the horizontal lines, so I don't think it is a Windows 7 problem.

Originally I tried the 195.55 from laptopvideo2go.com so I would have the latest driver with a moded INF but the lines were much worse, sometimes I would get severe permanent horizontal distortion and driver crash.

So I am going back to 182.46 as russilliston recommended, hoping it works. Will let you know.

So much for trying to get rid of the Fallout 3 and Borderlands mouse lag...

[X205-S9800]

Thanks, this works great so far, have two X205-S9800's with Nvidia 8700's and when I upgraded from Vista (32bit) to Win 7 (64 bit) was getting the ocasional screen flash with what looked like tiny vertical black lines on both PC's. One of them would crash, the other never did. Had this problem for 8 months (Using RC copy of Win 7 then). That driver seemed to fix it. All is right with the world again, and my wife thinks I work miracles, I'll give you the credit for the work, but will not tell her that!

[X205-S9800]

That is the 182.46 Driver that fixed the problems

[WoodYi]

I have a s9800 also with the nvidia 8700m GT and I have tried all driver updates with the same crashing or bsod (including official drivers from toshiba website). Other than the original ones the only driver release that works for my particular machine is 179.48 found here http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winvista_win7_179.48_beta.html

This driver set is stable and works with Win 7 32 or 64-bit