Satellite A100-250: Display resolution 640x480 under W2k

Today, I purchased a Toshiba Satellite A100-250.
Since I have quite some software I want to run on it that works far better under Windows 2000, I installed Win2k on the laptop.
And since a fresh Windows Install gave me a 640x480 resolution, I went to the ATI-site to download the Radeon Drivers.
But, when I downloaded those (6-2_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_30152.zip) and tried to install it, I got two errors.
The first one is: "Severe. INF error. Video driver not found."
The second one is: "Severe. Setup was unable to complete the installation. Try to setup your display adapter with a standard VGA driver before running setup."
So I checked the Device Manager. Under "Other devices", there's a listing of "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)".
No matter what I try (Windows Update, Windows CD, standard inf files), I can't get a video driver running.
Can someone please tell me what's going on here?
And can anyone give me a solution?

Hi
As far as I know it's not advisable to use not Toshiba graphic drivers.
The other drivers are designed for the usage on the desktop PCs and not for the notebooks.
The graphic cards on the notebooks are not similar with the desktop PC graphic cards.
The problem is that I don't found a Toshiba graphic driver for the W2k for this unit.
But I have got a idea.
You can use the Windows XP on you unit. The best way is to use the Toshiba recovery CD. The Windows XP supports a compatibility mode.
If you right click on an exe file and choose the properties so you will see the compatibility tab.
There you can enable the option and choose the W2k.

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