reinstalling windows... easiest path to all new drivers?

[ljwobker]

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?

[ZaZ]

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.

[ljwobker]

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.

[ryengineer]

Drivers and software - ThinkPad.

[pianowizard]

Use System Update.

[erik]

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.