Toshiba Satellite A80

Has anyone tried Vista on this notebook? If so - how did it go?

Hello marco,

Did your run XP on it? Then you can download the vistaupgradeadvisor from MS.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...9-3ffc194924f8

Best regards

Myweb
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> Well - does anyone have any thoughts how it MIGHTgo?
>
> CPU type (Dothan-533)Pentium M 1.73GHz
> Main Board I915GM
> 1 GIG RAM
> CD-ROM 8/24×12×24
> Integrated Display
> Display Chip Intel GMA900
> PCI Express x16
> Audio System SRS,AC"97,16-bit Stereo
> WLAN performance 802.11b/g(54Mbps)802.11b/g (54Mbps)
> NIC description 100Mbps
> Modem 56K
> One serial port, one parallel port, one RGB interface, one infrared
> port, three USB interface. one TV Output (S terminals), one RJ11
> interface, and one RJ45 interface, one microphone interface. one
> headphone interface, one IEEE1394 interface 6 1 1 Card Reader
> Interface, one vertical cell type II (PCMCIA support R2.01,16 spaces
> PC Card
>
> "marco" <marcop@iinetdotnet.au> wrote in message
> news8C36E1E-7A87-4DE3-87E3-53763DDB29B8@microsoft.com...
>
>> Has anyone tried Vista on this notebook? If so - how did it go?
>>

Well - does anyone have any thoughts how it MIGHTgo?

CPU type (Dothan-533)Pentium M 1.73GHz
Main Board I915GM
1 GIG RAM
CD-ROM 8/24×12×24

Integrated Display
Display Chip Intel GMA900
PCI Express x16
Audio System SRS,AC"97,16-bit Stereo
WLAN performance 802.11b/g(54Mbps)802.11b/g (54Mbps)
NIC description 100Mbps
Modem 56K

One serial port, one parallel port, one RGB interface, one infrared port,
three USB interface. one TV Output (S terminals), one RJ11 interface, and
one RJ45 interface, one microphone interface. one headphone interface, one
IEEE1394 interface 6 1 1 Card Reader Interface, one vertical cell type II
(PCMCIA support R2.01,16 spaces PC Card

"marco" <marcop@iinetdotnet.au> wrote in message
news8C36E1E-7A87-4DE3-87E3-53763DDB29B8@microsoft.com...
> Has anyone tried Vista on this notebook? If so - how did it go?

I've been running Vista Home Premium for a couple of weeks on a Satellite
A10 from what I believe is probably the same era as your A80 although much
less capable (Celeron 2.4). I ran the Upgrade Advisor and fixed all of the
Software warnings. Upgraded from XP and the only hitch I've noticed so far
was the Alps pointing device didn't have scroll capabilities any longer. I
went to the Toshiba website and downloaded Vista drivers for a much new
model Satellite (M something), loaded them up and away we went. I don't have
Glass but that was expected. One strange item that I still haven't resolved
is in the setup for Media Center, I can't play the video to do the "Monitor"
setup. Other videos seem to play fine and so the end result is no issue.

One thing I did prior to upgrading that made me feel better about moving
forward is I bought a new internal harddrive (80 instead of the original
40), imaged the old one and restored to the new one. This way I knew I could
go back to XP if things went horribly wrong.

"marco" <marcop@iinetdotnet.au> wrote in message
news:ED138D07-37A0-458C-8552-4A5C8397D6C4@microsoft.com...
> Well - does anyone have any thoughts how it MIGHTgo?
>
> CPU type (Dothan-533)Pentium M 1.73GHz
> Main Board I915GM
> 1 GIG RAM
> CD-ROM 8/24×12×24
>
> Integrated Display
> Display Chip Intel GMA900
> PCI Express x16
> Audio System SRS,AC"97,16-bit Stereo
> WLAN performance 802.11b/g(54Mbps)802.11b/g (54Mbps)
> NIC description 100Mbps
> Modem 56K
>
> One serial port, one parallel port, one RGB interface, one infrared port,
> three USB interface. one TV Output (S terminals), one RJ11 interface, and
> one RJ45 interface, one microphone interface. one headphone interface, one
> IEEE1394 interface 6 1 1 Card Reader Interface, one vertical cell type II
> (PCMCIA support R2.01,16 spaces PC Card
>
> "marco" <marcop@iinetdotnet.au> wrote in message
> news8C36E1E-7A87-4DE3-87E3-53763DDB29B8@microsoft.com...
>> Has anyone tried Vista on this notebook? If so - how did it go?
>

It's a friend's notebook - at the moment it only has 256 MB ram but I've
ordered the upgrade to 1 Gig. At the moment the Upgrade advisor sees the 256
MB and says what you'd expect.
I've decided to go ahead and install anyway when the ram arrives. I don't
expect the glass and I can always re-install XP if it doesn't like Vista.
But what's important are that the drivers that support the native hardware
will work ok and they'll probably be XP ones.

"LaRoux" <hlx@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:eRYDnBdWHHA.2256@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I've been running Vista Home Premium for a couple of weeks on a Satellite
> A10 from what I believe is probably the same era as your A80 although much
> less capable (Celeron 2.4). I ran the Upgrade Advisor and fixed all of the
> Software warnings. Upgraded from XP and the only hitch I've noticed so far
> was the Alps pointing device didn't have scroll capabilities any longer. I
> went to the Toshiba website and downloaded Vista drivers for a much new
> model Satellite (M something), loaded them up and away we went. I don't
> have Glass but that was expected. One strange item that I still haven't
> resolved is in the setup for Media Center, I can't play the video to do
> the "Monitor" setup. Other videos seem to play fine and so the end result
> is no issue.
>
> One thing I did prior to upgrading that made me feel better about moving
> forward is I bought a new internal harddrive (80 instead of the original
> 40), imaged the old one and restored to the new one. This way I knew I
> could go back to XP if things went horribly wrong.
>
> "marco" <marcop@iinetdotnet.au> wrote in message
> news:ED138D07-37A0-458C-8552-4A5C8397D6C4@microsoft.com...
>> Well - does anyone have any thoughts how it MIGHTgo?
>>
>> CPU type (Dothan-533)Pentium M 1.73GHz
>> Main Board I915GM
>> 1 GIG RAM
>> CD-ROM 8/24×12×24
>>
>> Integrated Display
>> Display Chip Intel GMA900
>> PCI Express x16
>> Audio System SRS,AC"97,16-bit Stereo
>> WLAN performance 802.11b/g(54Mbps)802.11b/g (54Mbps)
>> NIC description 100Mbps
>> Modem 56K
>>
>> One serial port, one parallel port, one RGB interface, one infrared port,
>> three USB interface. one TV Output (S terminals), one RJ11 interface, and
>> one RJ45 interface, one microphone interface. one headphone interface,
>> one IEEE1394 interface 6 1 1 Card Reader Interface, one vertical cell
>> type II (PCMCIA support R2.01,16 spaces PC Card
>>
>> "marco" <marcop@iinetdotnet.au> wrote in message
>> news8C36E1E-7A87-4DE3-87E3-53763DDB29B8@microsoft.com...
>>> Has anyone tried Vista on this notebook? If so - how did it go?
>>
>
>

For anyone that might be interested - I DID it two days ago - went
beautifully. I upgraded the ram to 1256. I haven't even had to download a
single driver and everything seems to work perfectly. I've had no crashes at
all and all the hardware was recognised and works perfectly. COOOOL stuff!


"marco" <marcop@iinetdotnet.au> wrote in message
news8C36E1E-7A87-4DE3-87E3-53763DDB29B8@microsoft.com...
> Has anyone tried Vista on this notebook? If so - how did it go?

yeh i put vista on it and it worked pretty fine for sometime but the more programs i installed to customize my laptop, i realized it ran pretty slow...not because of the processor but because of the 512 ram available. So dashed to office depot and got me a ran chip and inserted in myself...less than 2 minutes...and when i ran vista home premium again...wow...it was fast and the power of the processor tamed the vista to bits and am loving it very much. I can send u a screen shot if u want my email is olskupraymantis@yahoo.com

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