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TOSHIBA Speech System
TOSHIBA Support Options
TOSHIBA Value Added Package
1. Using Windows Explorer, create a new folder named
BIOS under the root directory of the
computer’s hard disk drive – ordinarily identified as drive “(
C:)”
2. Create another folder named
Vista Downloads – also under the hard disk drive’s root
directory.
3. If a
RAID driver is listed in the table above, create a third folder named RAID driver – also
under the hard disk drive’s root directory.
4. Browse to
http://vistaDL.toshiba.com
5. Select your computer model from the lists of Product, Family and Model, and click the Go button.
A list of software components and BIOS updates will be displayed.
6. Download the latest Vista-compatible
BIOS for your computer – to the new BIOS folder.
7. If a
RAID driver is listed in the table above, download it to the new RAID driver folder.
8. Right-click the .zip file for the RAID driver, and then click
Extract All. The Extraction Wizard
will start. Follow its prompts to unzip and save the driver into the same RAID driver folder.
9. Download the Toshiba-supplied software components in the table above, one at a time, and
save them to the
Vista Downloads folder, created above.
2
Update the computer’s BIOS
1. Use Windows Explorer to browse to the new BIOS folder.
2. Double-click the BIOS filename to start the BIOS update, and then follow the onscreen
instructions to complete the BIOS update.
3. Restart the computer, by clicking Start, then Shut Down, then Restart from the list of options.
3
Remove Toshiba software components for Windows XP
Follow the steps below to remove Toshiba software components that are specifically for Windows
XP – and which must be removed before installing Windows Vista. These XP-specific components
are listed in the table following the screen shots below. Your computer may have Windows XP
software components from other companies that must be removal before installing Windows Vista –
McAfee Internet Security and Intervideo WinDVD Creator, for example. Contact the companies that
publish these applications for information about their upgrade options for Windows Vista.
1. Click the Windows
Start button, then click Control Panel.
2. Click
Add or Remove Programs, then click Remove a program, as shown in the screen shots
below. You may need to log in with an Administrator password to uninstall the software
components.
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