[griruco]

I have a toshiba protege m750 that I reformatted the hard drive with windows xp disk. i need to get internet access to install all drivers, but I can't get it going. Help
Thanks,
Gregg

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I can't find anything on a Protege M570 on the Toshiba web site. Is there a different model number anywhere on the laptop?

[Ztruker]

I can't find anything on a Protege M570 on the Toshiba web site. Is there a different model number anywhere on the laptop?

[griruco]

No other model name it is a laptop that converts into a tablet, maybe thats why you couldnt find it? If i google it, it does come up as a tablet

Gregg

[griruco]

no

[phillpower2]

Hello griruco

How are you trying to connect to the internet as in wireless or ethernet?

You may need to download the drivers on another computer, save them to a thumb drive or burn them to disk and then install them from there.

XP drivers are available from the same link, all drivers http://toshiba-id.bl...-windows-7.html
WLAN drivers https://aps.toshiba-...?page=downloads

NB: If you have not done so already ensure that you install the chipset drivers first.

[Wolfeymole]

If I may offer some slight assistance for a moment, what we need here Gregg is the S number that follows the M750 as shown in this shot.

[griruco]

The model is a Portege m750-s7201 to be accurate, thanks for the help, Wolfeymole!

[Wolfeymole]

I'm not sure if this link will work.


Edit: No it doesn't so go here and click on Downloads and the link for your machine.

Make sure that XP or XP SP 2/SP3 is in the "Refine Search By" box and scroll down to the LAN driver.

http://www.csd.toshi...rt/jsp/home.jsp

[griruco]

Ok, I tried ,but the program won't run. I save it to a thumb drive, transfer it to the portege and it can't run

[Ztruker]

The 08-18-2009 LAN driver is what you need. This is the link to the actual download on that page: driver_lan_intel_TC00231100A.exe



When I downloaded it, this is what I got:

[griruco]

won't extract the file

[Wolfeymole]

If I remember correctly XP does not possess any decompression software as standard so download the .exe file in the very top box which says 7 - Zip for 32bit windows and run it.

Once you have done so you will be able to unzip the file from Toshiba.

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

[Ztruker]

It's a self extracting .exe, no unzipper needed. When I run it under Windows 8 and XP, this is the window I get:



griruco, can you run any .exe programs?

[griruco]

ZTruker

The program freezes every time the self-extractor attempts to extract the program, so I never get to the point of running the program itself, window just sits on the extracting file screen and never progresses past that.

Thanks
Gregg

[griruco]

Wolfeymole

It is self-extracting and doesn't need an unzipper. I tried anyway. No luck.
Any other ideas?