So many drivers.....
Posted: 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?
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?