No Disk with drivers by a Satellite U400-10L

Hi there
Today I bought new Toshiba Satellite u400 - 10l laptop with no operation system included, so I have installed windows XP succesfully, but I faced such a problem, as a shortage of a drivers, because there were no additional disk in the box (only laptop, DC cabel and some MANUALS). As soon as I opened my Device Manager, I saw plenty of hardware not being recognized by my laptop : Sound card, Video card, WLAN adapter, 6 hot keys, web cam and so on.
Should there be additional driver disk when I was buying my laptop, or where can I get all of these drivers so my laptop could work properly.
Regards

Sounds like windows wasn't installed properly on your computer. :S
I've got a friend with a U400, they had Vista on it when they bought it. Have you downgraded to XP? If so, it sounds like you haven't installed all of the drivers for it.
Try going to the link below for XP drivers. :)
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp#
Message was edited by: Blackamb3r

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