Wolf's Plateau

I spent most of last weekend playing with my girlfriend's laptop. She has an old Toshiba Satelite 2805-S302 and wanted to install Windows 2000 on it (it came with Windows ME three years ago). The installation went well except that Windows 2000 can't recongnize some hardware - graphic card, sound card, modem, ethernet, motherboard chipset - just about anything. I thought the driver problem was mostly solved when Windows 2000 was out -- it seems that I am wrong, and this really reminds me of old days of installing Windows 95.

Not too bad, though, since Toshiba has a decent support center and I found the driver download page easily, got a bunch of files, and began to install them one by one. However, after all the installing and rebooting, the graphic card and ethernet are still not recongnized. I even tried to install the graphic card driver from S3 Graphics, but it didn't work either. With some help from LIN Yu, it finally turned out I have to download the drivers from 2805-S301 driver page (where my model isn't listed as applicable). What a mess. Anyway, everything is fine now, and she seems to be happy with them, including the Mozilla Firefox I recommended to her. :-)