HI and Salam...
Last year I bought 2 tablet pcs, one is Toshiba M200 and the other is Acer Travelmate C300. Toshiba M200 or I just called it M200 was initially came with its original old early version of Windows Xp for tablet pc, with full tablet functionality, 2 usb port, so on &so forth. However, there was no toshiba internal or external Cd/Dvd player provided. Of Course, if there was one, the price surely not bargainable as what I got eventhough both were bought from ebay(You know sometimes people on ebay cheat here & there). So the M200 now is practically used by my wife and lately it has slowed down like an ant wants to run 10km marathon. While the C300 came in with just Windows Xp sp1 installed, no tablet functionality BUT 2 working Usb ports. However somewhere in May 2009, the motherboard circuit of the both Usb was burn due to some reason which I'm not going to tell here, and Yeah, now faulty Usb. Bye bye C300!!!.
Interestingly, my wife's lenovo is upgradable to windows 7, and you know windows 7 much more faster than other previous windows especially the Vista. Suddenly a positive energy out of nowhere has entered my brain and creating multiple spark of impulses leading to production of thunderous ideas and questions on how to install Windows 7 to the 2 snails of my tablet. Here I share the instruction to install Window 7 on M200 and C300.
TOOLS :
1- Another laptop, at least windows Xp as its Os...we call it as Laptop A
2- Your M200 or C300 ...we call it as Laptop B
3- A LAN cable
4- A software called tftpd32 standard edition (zip) (481 kB) or Download TFTPBoot.exe(154MB) (mirror) (mirror) ...both working on my laptop.
5- Windows 7 CD/DVD and Laptop B drivers.
6- An external DVD-Rom if your laptop don't has the internal one.
7- A cup of coffee or tea.
STEPS:
1- Make sure your laptop support minimal requirement of Windows 7. 2- Back up your files if you want to.
3- For Laptop A, Download tftpd32 standard edition (zip) or (481 kB) or TFTPBoot.exe(154MB) (mirror) (mirror), this software , unzip it and install in C: drive. Like this picture if tftpboot.exe:
6- Disable any firewalls in Laptop A.
7- Set the network adapter on Laptop A to have a static IP address of 192.168.1.5 or any IP address you like, see the pictures below & ensure it look alike :
8- Laptop A and Laptop B is connected to their own power cable.
9- Connect LAN cable from Laptop A to Laptop B.Connect your external DVD-rom if required and put in your Windows 7 CD/DVD. Share the DVD-Rom drive with a share name of “CD” and make sure “Everyone” has permission for it.
10- Click(run) Tftpd32.exe in Laptop A.
11- On Laptop B, enter bios screen and select boot from the network (called PXE) for C300, OR just press F12 for M200 right after turning on the Laptop B, and select boot from network ( PXE) and press ENTER button.
12-A screen will pop up in Laptop B telling it try to connect to Laptop A.
13- Follow the instruction that appears on the screen.
14- Then Windows Preinstallation Environment or Windows PE will load. Have a sip of your coffee and tea, because the loading will take sometimes.
15- MAKE SURE YOU DONT TURN OFF ANY LAPTOP, DON'T DISCONNECT THE LAN CABLE AND TURN OFF ANY SLEEP OR HIBERNATE OR STANDBY ABILITY OF LAPTOP A.
16- This Windows PE screen will show like this :
and in my case type Type “net use y: \\192.168.1.5\cd” and then you will be asked for username and password, So enter your username" username@domain" and password of Laptop A like this:
17- Then type "Run Y:\setup.exe"
18- The windows 7 installation screen will come out and follow the instruction of the installation.
19- When Windows 7 already in Laptop B, turn off tftpd32.exe in Laptop A, and revert or restore the Laptop A to its original setting(on firewall, etc)
20- Install required drivers. Most of the old drivers(windows xp support) for my M200 and C300 are working perfectly..
21- Rotation functionality for M200, you can download from http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp, choose M400 Tablet Pc utility/rotation utility. After installation, play around with tablet PC setting, and you can use potrait or landscape views. :)
22- For Acer Travelmate M300, after installation of all the drivers, please update your driver by following these steps :
- Reboot your Tablet to safe mode
- Open Computer Management, update driver for the Display Adapter using THIS (i855_win7)drivers (only this version works!). Please update driver manually by picking up your selected driver above...just choose any file started with a303, a305 etc.. just choose one at a time. (I've tried 2-3 times by choosing different file, but I'm not remember which file I chose)
- Wait for the succesful installation message, reboot in normal mode.
- Wait for the ‘New Hardware Found’ dialog to finish, it should give you error for one of the adapter
- Reboot to normal mode.
- Wait for the ‘New Hardware Found’ dialog to finish, it should be successful this time
- Reboot to normal mode again.(I rebooted 3 times)
- Change the color depth to 32-bit if necessary
24- Then run regedit.exe, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intel\CUI\DISPLAY1\
, add new key by clicking{ edit-->new DWORD (32-bit) value} , name it to "EnableRotation" , right click on the file, click modify ,set the value data to 00000001 and choose Hexadecimal. Then click ok and close registry. Refresh or restart the tablet.
P/s: I'm not an expert, but hopefully my guide will help you. Now both laptop work like horse on Windows 7!!!!!Cheers!!!
CREDIT TO THESE WEBSITES AND ANY PEOPLE INVOLVED:
4- http://cmoud.com/5- http://laptop-driver-download.blogspot.com/2010/02/download-acer-travelmate-c300-windows.html - FOR ACER TRAVELMATE C300 DRIVERS
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