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I went with a newer one based on comments in the forums. Many folks feel the 60xx series of drivers is a better choice for the 5200 GO Chipset, others say not to use any lower than 70xx. You can poke around and make an educated decision. I've actually tried about 10 different versions. The modified INF is what gets it working for other GPUs. This was actually a driver released for ASUS laptops. The 9708 driver seemed pretty snappy as well. I downloaded the NVidia 9802 driver for use on this Toshiba but 9719 and a few others. It's a little out of date, but it helps one get the idea. This thread over at LaptopVideo2Go offers this great graphical table explaning the drivers vs. I quaked in fear as Windows reported that this driver was not digitally signed. There's excellent step by step screen-shotted instructions on how to download the right drivers for your laptop and use a Modified INF driver file to fool/force/coerce the drivers to supporting your hardware, even when the manufacturer would really rather that you not. WARNING: You're on your own if you do this.don't come to me with problems. While NVidia seems not to care much about existing Laptop GPUs with their driver releases, the community at LaptopVideo2Go forces them to care by editing their INF files. ) (Yes, I know how the new desktop compositor works under Vista, no letters, please.) Surely this POS can run some transparent windows, right? I mean, it did under XP running Windows Blinds. Runs (some) 3D games just fine thank you, and Google Earth, too. So what that it has a crappy NVidia Fx5200 GX video card with 32megs of RAM? That was state of the art three years ago. I also demand Vista Aero Transparent Glass on this laptop. Toshiba Extended Tiles for Windows Mobility Center.Toshiba Tablet PC Extension for Windows Vista.Toshiba Value Added Package for Windows Vista (this apparently adds value).However, I refuse to give up on the Little Tablet That Could.Įven though the M205 isn't listed as supported, I threw caution to the wind and downloaded and installed the:

Many NVIDIA notebook GPUs have Windows Vista drivers already built into the operating system and install the first time you run Windows Vista. GeForce Go GPUs in notebooks are currently not supported in drivers from .Īt this time, the drivers available on do not support notebook GPUs. The NVidia Vista Drivers announcement says: I figured it was time to solve it once and for all. I've googled all over for this and found Microsoft blogs where the guy said "it's working great on internal drivers" but I can't get a straight answer from anyone. While these little workhorses will run Vanilla Vista just fine, none of the useful craplets will work and Toshiba seems to have abandoned this TabletPC for the sexier M400. I've been really disappointed that the lovely Toshiba M200/M205 series of notebooks has been so poorly supported by Toshiba.