Qosmio G20: Need Vista Toshiba Common Modules & Utilities

I have a Qosmio G20 and have recently upgraded to Windows Vista - Home Premium
I need to update my Common Modules Driver and Toshiba Utilities - can anyone help me?

Hi Paul
Unfortunately, you will have no success to find Toshiba Vista drivers or utilities for Qosmio G20!
It looks like Toshiba has released only single common Vista drivers like Wireless Lan Driver, Bluetooth Stack, etc. These drivers are not especially designed for G20 series but you can use it on notebooks with the same WLan card or BT card.
However, the Toshiba Vista drivers were not released for Qosmio G20 or F20.
Did you check this?
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=20494&tstart=195
The FranciscoJr is a god father of Vista on Qosmio G20 ;)
Recommend checking this useful, fantastic thread.
Best regards

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I am new at this forum. My name is Francisco and I live in Brazil. I own a Toshiba Qosmio g20_105 and it is running Windows Vista Ultimate EN RTM 6000 without problems.
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http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/myqosmiog20screen2.jpg
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/myqosmiog20screen3.jpg
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http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/myqosmiog20screen4.jpg
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6. Press "Install Now".
7. Type in your Product Key then press "Next".
8. Accept the license terms by checking the box then press "Next".
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10. When asked "Where do you want to install Windows", make sure your media containing the Toshiba RAID drivers is connected to the computer, then click on "Load Driver".
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Toshiba Assist
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Remote control manager
Toshiba SD Memory utilities
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So I must tell to you that Toshiba Qosmio G20 is Windows Vista Ultimate capable, indeed.
Hope this helps people who need and want to install Windows Vista Aero on their Qosmio G20 machines.
Message was edited by: FranciscoJr

UPDATED POST: On March 08, 2007
This is a step by step guide for those of you with problems to get Windows Vista functional on your G20 Qosmios
Use a Windows Vista English Version RTM Ultimate 6000 DVD for installation.
1 Backup your personal files and important data to a removable device, CD, DVD, flashmedia, pendrive, etc...
2.Check your Qosmio player installation. if nedeed, reinstall it with the latest version (multilanguage), posted on Toshibas site (download drivers section).
3.Download and copy the Toshiba RAID drivers to a removable media
Please, download the Toshiba RAID drivers from here:
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/raid.rar
4.To perform a fresh install of Windows Vista, Follow the steps below
-1. Copy the contents of this archive onto a floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive.
-2. Insert your Microsoft Windows Vista Edition Bootable DVD.
-3. Power on your computer and press F12 to display the boot menu.
-4. Choose the option to boot from the CD/DVD drive.
-5. On the first setup screen, choose your language options then press "Next".
-6. Press "Install Now".
-7. Type in your Product Key then press "Next".
-8. Accept the license terms by checking the box then press "Next".
-9. When asked "What type of installation do you want", press "Custom (advanced)".
-10. When asked "Where do you want to install Windows", make sure your media containing the Toshiba RAID drivers is connected to the computer, then click on "Load Driver".
-11. Browse to the location you have copied the RAID drivers to then press "OK".
-12. Setup will return to the previous screen, but it will show that you have selected the TOSHIBA RAID driver.
-13. Make sure the TOSHIBA RAID driver is selected then press "Next".
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let Windows install all the drivers found for your Qosmio G20.
6. Reboot your machine and follow with the steps below.
DRIVERS YOU MUST INSTALL:
1. Alps pointing device driver (This is from Alps and working fine with your Qosmio G20)
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/alpsdriver.rar
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/qosmioalps.jpg
During the installation, Windows will complain that you are installing an early device driver. Do not attempt to this, Install it anyway.
This is because the Windows driver for this device is originally installed with a more recent date and version from that you are trying to install.
But the driver posting here is the correct from the Alps for your Qosmio g20.
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http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/bluetooth_mon.rar
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Look for a driver in computer
Choose a list of device drivers in computer
With disc...
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5.SoundMAX integrated digital audio. Driver 5.12.1.5410
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/soundmax5.12.1.5410.rar
run the setup.exe and at first remove the driver you have installed on your Qosmio G20.
reboot the computer
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http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/qosmiosoundmaxinstall.jpg
Continue with the installation and after finishing the process, test the functionallity of the new driver
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If your G20 model is using the Sigmatel HD audio chipset, so you must install other driver than the Soundmax integrated digital audio
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link:
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/sigmatelhd.rar
6.Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG Vista version 9.1.0.115, including the Intel chipset identification utility.
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/intel_wireless.rar
And for the Utilities you can download them from here:
1.Toshiba Configfree
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/configFree.rar
2.Toshiba assist
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/assist.rar
3.Raid utilities
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/raidutil.rar
4.Remote control manager
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/rcm.rar
5.Toshiba disk creator.
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/disccreator.rar
6.Picture enhancement utilily.
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/picenhan.rar
You can select your desired screen brightness and the monitor input settings:
monitor-in (rca normal or S-VHS plug in) when using your Qosmio as a monitor in for your VCR, DVD, Playstation, etc.
For using TV as monitor-in you also can switch from NTSC to PAL video system.
For screen brightness: This adjust affects the image of your DVD player software or when watching your DVD via media Center 2005
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/qosmiopicenh.jpg
After installation this utility appears into the Toshiba Assist Window, on Optimize category as shown in the picture above.
As the Toshiba Media (Top) buttons are not working by now, you can use the HotKey (Fn+4) which is working 100% , to toggle from Normal screen input(4:3 aspect)
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7. SRS Audio Sandbox utility (enhancement) for you soundmax audio experience
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WOW HD: Provides enhanced width, bass and definition for music sources.
TruSurround XT: Virtualizes multichannel content for listening on two speakers,
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CX Xtract: Provides enhanced multichannel virtualization by combining TruSurround XT
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http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/srs.rar
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http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/tileswmc.rar
10.Microsoft photo info.
http://www.rabayjr.com/vista/drivers/photoinfo.rar
OBS: All the downloads are directly from my FTP server. 100% secure. No Virus. No spywares
Francisco

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