Windows 7

[#1]

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.

[#2]

Satellite X205-S9359 

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..going back to Windows Vista and using display drivers from support.toshiba.com worked without problems.

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Was that 64-bit Vista? If the problem involves 64-bittedness, I wouldn't expect Toshiba to fix it, since the computer came with 32-bit Windows.

[#3]

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

[#4]

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.

[#5]

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

[#6 · 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)

[#7]

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.........