So many drivers.....

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Saml01 · #1 Post by **Saml01** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:09 am

Hopefully this thread will come in handy for all the people that recently got their machine and want to or have reformatted.

I wiped the drive and put a fresh copy of xp on it. I want to install the drivers so I dowloaded the thinkvantage system update 2. I let it find what it has. Critical update it finds the shock prevention software. Everything else is optional. In the optional I didnt see certain hardware, and the rest of the software has no description.

1. How am I supposed to know what im installing, I dont want to install extra stuff?

So I do what I always did, I went to the IBM site and downloaded each driver by hand. Except I got the intel video driver and chipset driver directly from intel.

Now I have all the drivers installed, and 2 problems.

2. WWAN, the verizon card, is installed but no dialer or manager just its driver. Where do I get that?

3. I have a device called "PCI Device" that is found on startup and I have no clue what it is?

4. In the future when I format, how do I get all the drivers installed in one shot, like my friend have told me because it seems that update utility doesnt contain everything.

5. [Non Driver related] My brand new extended battery only charges to 95%. Is this normal when it is in the dock or does the battery require a cycle?

domi · #2 Post by **domi** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:14 am

Saml01 wrote:I have a device called "PCI Device" that is found on startup and I have no clue what it is?

Probably the same I also had on my X60s after installing W2K from scratch. For details, check:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=28315

Saml01 · #3 Post by **Saml01** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:17 am

domi wrote:
Saml01 wrote:I have a device called "PCI Device" that is found on startup and I have no clue what it is?
Probably the same I also had on my X60s after installing W2K from scratch. For details, check:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=28315

OMG I CANT BELIEVE IT DIDNT HIT ME

I forgot this computer has an SD card reader built in.

Wow im gonna go kick myself in the [censored] for letting that one slip by me.

Thanks man.

Saml01 · #4 Post by **Saml01** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:00 pm

Where do I get the SD controller driver?

domi · #5 Post by **domi** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:35 pm

Saml01 wrote:Where do I get the SD controller driver?

(As I wrote in the above thread), it's in \ibmtools\drivers\sdio...

Saml01 · #6 Post by **Saml01** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:48 pm

domi wrote:
Saml01 wrote:Where do I get the SD controller driver?
(As I wrote in the above thread), it's in \ibmtools\drivers\sdio...

If you formatted this forlder no longer exists.

And it wasnt the SD card reader afterall. The SD card reader was installed by windows, I just didnt notice. It was a second SATA controller.

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