Recently bought an olderToshiba A-105 Laptop with ubuntu OS & a locked unknown password on it [tags on unit say it was originally xp pro & upgradable to Vista]
I went to the Toshiba site and found how to bypass the password & then upgraded the BIOS .
Seller said it already had Win 10 but was locked out by the ubuntu password.
I found all the windows updates had been removed, so I bought a fresh Win10 online with a new key and made an ISO and put onto a USB and loaded it no problem initially and installed it.
I soon found it works but seems slower & hangsup sometimes so began doing all the windows update over and tried updating all the drivers in Device Manager which still shows some triangles indicating needed updates.
These wont update :
-Intel (R) PRO/100 VE
-Intel (R) Wireless 3945ABG but the new Realtek RTL8811AU Wireless LAN 802.11ac USB 2.0 works fine.
-Intel(R) 82801 GBM/GHM(ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller -27C4
-Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family(Microsoft Corp- WDDM 1.0)
-Mass Storage Controller
-SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
-Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller
Each say they already have the best drivers but the triangles warnings remain on them.
Was looking to replace some along with the video/graphics card [if that would make it work better? as some frames on some pages load slowly or stay blank sometimes but most sites work, sometimes typing is delayed but shows up a minute later in comments like on facebook or twitter.
Not sure if this is as good as it gets or if there is a way to find out what I can do to upgrade it as sometimes on restart I do get an error saying it has to repair itself and then have to restart it again.
Thanks for any advice that can be offered to improve this laptop.
Ave
I went to the Toshiba site and found how to bypass the password & then upgraded the BIOS .
Seller said it already had Win 10 but was locked out by the ubuntu password.
I found all the windows updates had been removed, so I bought a fresh Win10 online with a new key and made an ISO and put onto a USB and loaded it no problem initially and installed it.
I soon found it works but seems slower & hangsup sometimes so began doing all the windows update over and tried updating all the drivers in Device Manager which still shows some triangles indicating needed updates.
These wont update :
-Intel (R) PRO/100 VE
-Intel (R) Wireless 3945ABG but the new Realtek RTL8811AU Wireless LAN 802.11ac USB 2.0 works fine.
-Intel(R) 82801 GBM/GHM(ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller -27C4
-Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family(Microsoft Corp- WDDM 1.0)
-Mass Storage Controller
-SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
-Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller
Each say they already have the best drivers but the triangles warnings remain on them.
Was looking to replace some along with the video/graphics card [if that would make it work better? as some frames on some pages load slowly or stay blank sometimes but most sites work, sometimes typing is delayed but shows up a minute later in comments like on facebook or twitter.
Not sure if this is as good as it gets or if there is a way to find out what I can do to upgrade it as sometimes on restart I do get an error saying it has to repair itself and then have to restart it again.
Thanks for any advice that can be offered to improve this laptop.
Ave