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Hi there,
First- I apologize if this has been posted before but I did do due diligence for the last 30 minutes searching here- great forum BTW.

I have a new T61 that was shipped with Vista Ultimate- I created the recovery DVD and did a complete reinstall with an OEM (non IBM) Windows XP SP2 disk. i have done this previously on the current T42p. A few items happened
1. Had to disable SATA in BIOS so XP could see the disk
2. System Update program fails on install for some reason- I do not have that detail with me at the moment (traveling on a T42P currently)
3. So I went down the list and installed drivers one by one. Here is where my questions are

Questions:
1. I had to install the Intel 4925 wireless driver right from Intel since Lenovo dis not appear to support an XP driver- looks OK
2.I can not find the driver for the Firewire host adapter anywhere. I need help here.
3. If I get a driver- it appears there are 2 devices still wihtout drivers. Does anyone have a complete list? i did walk the driver list Lenovo has posted.
4. Can I go back to the BIOS and set the hard drive back to SATA? XP should have the drivers.
5. Id there a complete package for the Thinkpad key etc? I may have missed it but looked for a while.

Appreciate you time in advance.

1. Intel PRO 2200bg, 2915abg, 3945bg, 3945abg, 4965ag, and 4965agn Mini PCI adapter wireless software for Windows XP, 2000 - ThinkPad.

2, 3, 5. Drivers and software - ThinkPad T61, T61p

ThinkVantage System Update gathers and installs all available softwares, tools, applications and drivers for your thinkpad. It tries!

4. Install Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver, explicitly follow the installation instructions on the page to install it. Remember the package unpacks itself to C:\DRIVERS\WIN\IMSM\PREPARE, you would need to go there in order to install it manually.

O some progress
1. I updated the wireless driver
2. The IEEE is OK
3. SATA looks ok (I think)
4. System update says that "The wizard was interrupted before System Update could be completely installed...." I just let it run so what is going on? I can nto find the program to delete it and start fresh

5. I still have the PCi device and 2 unknown devices. the link for the drivers is not really my system- i tried Audio driver but it was the wrong HW.

I have a 64577WU

OK, I lost the main partition for my files (~100GB) Windows does not see it. i thne tries AHCI in the BIOS and got a BSOD.

What the heck?

Considering a rebuild - please help/advise

delaneybob wrote:OK, I lost the main partition for my files (~100GB) Windows does not see it. i thne tries AHCI in the BIOS and got a BSOD.

that means AHCI drivers weren't properly installed.   follow ryengineer's instructions for installation.

ryengineer wrote:4. Install Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver, explicitly follow the installation instructions on the page to install it. Remember the package unpacks itself to C:\DRIVERS\WIN\IMSM\PREPARE, you would need to go there in order to install it manually.

to add to that, run "install.cmd" once in the above directory.

I di this


[Windows XP] UPDATE INSTALL

1. Start Windows XP.
2. Click Start and Control Panel.
3. Click Performance and Maintenance and System.
4. Click Hardware tab.
5. Click Device Manager button.
6. Click the + mark to expand IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
7. Right-click Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller or
Intel(R) 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller and click Properties.
8. Click Driver tab.
9. Click Update Driver button.
10. Select No, not this time and click Next.
11. Select Install from a list or specific location.
12. Click Next button.
13. Select Search for the best driver in these locations and
Include this location in the search.
14. Click Browse button.
15. Locate the driver folder and click OK button.
16. Click Next button.
The driver installation starts.
17. Click Finish button when the installation completes.
18. Click Close button.


Windows said it could not find a better driver in the PREPARE Directory

delaneybob wrote:Windows said it could not find a better driver in the PREPARE Directory

please see my post above as we may have crossed posts.   try that and see if it works.

Looks like it may work- rebooted now windows wants to add the partiion- in the new HW wizard- do i go back to PREPARE or let windows find the driver?

the PCI device then that is unknown is one of the partitions?

Anyway, Lenoco hasan ISO boot disk for hard drives it appears is that what I need?

Or better yet- does anyone have a step-by-step for a T61 XP clean install? with link

And went back to the can't find the hard drive scenari- thought that was Vista specific. Looks like I am stuck

found this http://www.infohq.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard ... &topic=233
but it still does nto clear the unnown HW.

I think the hard drive partion is a different issue- any thoughts?

Right now i am want to just rebuild on SATA AHCI but XP SP2 CD does not see the hard drive wihtthe BIOS set that way

Thanks

you can try the two links posted in this thread: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=51725

Thanks. great link

Last 2 questions:
1. Lenovo states to turnoff dual core prior to install->Really? i prefer the Lenovo method unless there is a recommendation otherwise
2. If I can get a floppy connector, and install the SATA drivers during XP install, will Windows really detect it? i have my doubts

Thanks again

Ran the setup in XP per the lenovo instrcutions and got:
txtsetup.oem couls not be found.

I copied the IMSM directory over

Please advise on step 11- when prompted insert diskette that you created in step 2 page 33

where the heck is that? i copied the dir over and txtsetup.oem si there
what else does it want?

Lenovo's instructions to copy the IMSM to diskette does not work. You must run the setup executable and point it to the floppy.

Then it works

Still getting failure on system update- any idea?

Have on last device- the details say

ROOT\UIUSYS\0000

Any ideas?

delaneybob wrote:Still getting failure on system update- any idea?

manually installing the AHCI drivers per instructions above didn't help?   that was how i set up server 2003 and it's the same as XP in that regard.   you've got me stumped.

delaneybob wrote:Have on last device- the details say

ROOT\UIUSYS\0000

Any ideas?

SD card reader?

System Update still fails- my IT guy said that Background Intellignence Serivce should be running first?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background ... er_Service


Unknow device si not th SD card reader. I do have two Atmel TPM under system devices and one has a question mark- not working properly

Can I address this later and install the driver after I install apps or will that mss the computer up?

i had TPM written down as a guess but didn't think that was it and hit the backspace key.   grab the TPM drivers from the driver matrix page and you'll be good to go.

system update failed for me under server 2003 and i don't know if it had to do with BITS or not.   i don't have a clean 2003 or XP install anymore to check the list of running services.

I had it installed so i removed the duplicate device and rebooted.

Intel AMT is disabled GUI came up- can't see where you turn it on and the AMT?

So now all i have is one unknown device still. I have no idea how to permanently get rid of it

Can i start loading apps?

Got system update in by downloading Microsoft.net 2.0

Ran it and it did not find the missing driver

delaneybob wrote:Ran it and it did not find the missing driver

post some details on the missing item.

delaneybob wrote:snip......and the AMT?.

Intel Amt Control can be enabed/disabled in the BIOS. If you enable it , you would need the following drivers:

Management Engine Interface (Intel AMT 2.5) driver for Windows Vista, XP - ThinkPad T61, T61p, X61, X61s, X61 Tablet, Reserve Edition

One of the reasons why I never use clean install is the headache you're going through. Not that it's difficult but finding proper drivers and make them work properly is very time consuming, atleast to me; when I can get everything in out of the box condition in lenovo's oem factory preload.

I removed the device- rebooted and PC says it's a "PCI Simple Communication Controller".

Also I changed to AHCI and got BSOD. I did, honest, follow the diskette based install procedure.

Do I need the floppy attached when I change to AHCI? The driver was installed when i installed XP off the floppy

Suggests to turn AMT off

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthr ... Controller