Tecra A8 downgraded to XP and none of the Toshiba utilities work

HI all,
I just got a new Tecra A8 - it is downgraded to XP and none of the Toshiba utilities work (power saver, function keeys, hot keys etc). When I try to reinstall them - there is always an error message (missing dll, or sth similar) - I tried to updated the bios - couldn't - again missing a file!
any ideas how to fix this? at least the fn buttons (fn button works - I can see a light coming on when I press - not the functions though!)
your help i greatly appreciated!
cheers,
Dimitris

Hi Darlac ... - well - I have a Tecra A8 - PTA8XXX series, and it also came with Vista on board.... This of course was useless - as none of the technical systems - I will be using - work with Vista, I had to downgrade to XP SP2 ...
Apparently - Microsoft have a document that allows this legally!! besides that I was told it was illegal... Anyhow - what I did - was locate an XP2 - and then I had to start the search for the drivers... - This took a few days - but eventually found them on the Toshiba-Europe.com ... website in the drivers section ... about 400 megs of data I copied off the network...
(so now I hopefully had the drivers)... and in one of these little files - i downloaded is an instruction - on how to do all this marvelous stuff...SO - you have a lot of work to do... believe me - I am still busy with it... and what I want now - is the program called "Recovery Disc Creator" - which we really need - as I believe that this helps you make up a recovery CD-ROM of all the files that you need to put onto the Tecra ...
When I first started - I was too quick to load some utilities and hoped that they would work... but alas - I was very down hearted, and so as normal - i said to hell with everything - JUST DO IT ... and got down to 'brass tacks' - and now I must say that last evening 27-5-2007 - quite all of a sudden - most of the utilities are actually working...
(I must say that altogether - I think I have downloaded about 800 megs of files, and utilites from various sites ... and have used some of this and some of that - but the Toshiba-Europe.com site - in the drivers section - really sparks - as you select which machine you have - and away you go... Even my son - is surprised at how far I have taken this Tecra - on XP SP2 ... he is quite amazed - as some of the utilities do not even work on his notebook
Okay - well - now you can mail me if you like - [email protected] - and I will help you more, if I can .. and maybe anyone else reading this post - that has this mystery "Recovery Disc Creator" program - I would love to install it - it also apparently travels with something called "Recovery Disc Launcher" - whatever that is... but I hope that as I imagine it - that this utility - allows me to make my own recovery DVD, or set of CD's ...so that just in case something goes wrong.
I can hopefully then use it to recreate my hard drive...
Okay - hope you get it right... read that list - do each and most of all the things that they require, step by step - in turn...
Kindest Regards
recnepS
...South Africa...

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