Thinkpads Forum

I'm planning on taking a lazy sunday and monday off to rebuild my machine... it's been 18 months on an XP install and as we all know there's just too many little broken things that I need to fix.

So I'm wondering, what's the easiest way to get all the new drivers that I need? The matrix on lenovo.com has access, but it's a BUNCH of clicking and saving and decompressing and readme.texting and all that. Does anyone know of a site official or unofficial that keeps a download of all the thinkpad drivers for a given model? I use NLite to slipstream/unattend all my installs, so having extra drivers isn't a problem... but I'd like to not have to download every single one individually and then fight through the files to actually get the drivers out. Any thoughts on this?

All the drivers for your machine are located in the IBMTools folder on your C:\ drive. I personally don't upgrade unless there is a reason.

I'm running a non-factory install, so those files don't exist on my machine. As I'm installing a fresh copy of XP, I need a place to get all the latest drivers, not re-install the old ones.

Drivers and software - ThinkPad.

Use System Update.

lenovo system update is probably the easiest way to go as long as you have a way to get your thinkpad online after the XP installation.

otherwise you can find drivers in your system's driver matrix.