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Ok I recently purchased a Toshiba A215-s7422 Laptop from Office Depot.
http://yahoo-ssp-cnet.com.com/notebooks/to...466820073270#p5

Toshiba does not support downgrade of this laptop from Vista to XP, so they have none of the XP drivers on their website. After many hours of searching the Web I found a "bulk" download of all the drivers.

Everything on the laptop is working fine now EXCEPT the FN key. I have been doing research and found that this is called the "common module" driver. I can not find it anywhere and I have looked for hours. I was wondering if anyone knows of a driver to fix this issue or anyway to manually fix it.

Thanks

Howdy:

You probably aren't going to find that one as it would be specific to Toshiba.

Also, are you aware you probably voided your warranty by downgrading? Hope nothing goes wrong with the laptop.

Murray

That is what I have been reading in the other posts, that the driver is specifically Toshiba. I was not aware it would void the warranty.

I don't know how far you are in the Vista to XP process, but if this was my laptop I would use the recovery part ion or CD to put Vista back then install XP in a Dual Boot setup to play with. That should leave you with a valid warranty and leave Vista to learn when you feel like it and XP to use day to day till then.

See here for directions on setting this up: Dual boot Vista and XP with Vista installed first

thanks, that is great information. I will try that

Can you please identify where in the license agreement voiding the warranty is a risk by a downgrade to XP (assume I have a valid license for XP)? {Hardware with certain Vista editions can downgrade per Microsoft}

Perhaps this will help.

99.9% Toshiba Satellite A215-S7472 downgrade and/or restore for Windows XP Professional
On boot I still get Found New Hardware and cannot locate driver, device is listed a UNKNOWN in Found New Hardware, BUT Device Manager does NOT show any missing/unknown devices.

I did a restore of my old dead system, not a reinstall of XP. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery include Recover Anyware that allows restore to dissimilar hardware (only costs slightly more than Ghost and is much more robust).

Drivers

http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/index.php for Modder program to modify ATI display driver

7-12_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_55811.exe ATI_mobility_radeon_HD_2400 ATI driver package to use (from ATI site) Be wary of display driver updates from any source as such updates may make your system unstable/unusable—make backup before install.

http://tinyurl.com/2buwss for Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter Driver 6.0.2.75

Bluetooth Monitor: util_bt_monitor_25884A.exe???

http://tinyurl.com/2mc8nq for Toshiba drivers (only use those that include XP) and the bios upgrade.

http://tinyurl.com/3chr5t for StandardDualChannel_PCI_IDE_Controller

http://tinyurl.com/33a94x for REALTEK_HighDefinitionAudioDriver1.84