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questions on driver installation after XP was installed over Vista OEM on Lenovo T61

I just bought a Lenovo T61 laptop. Serial number: 7658CTO. It came pre-installed with Vista Home Basic but I wanted XP instead. I deleted the Vista partition and was able to successfully install XP but I've run into a roadblock. The XP drivers located on the Lenovo website do not seem install correctly on my machine. The wireless card is not recognized and I can't install the driver for it. There are probably 20+ items listed in my device manager as not having drivers such as PCI bus, USB, Network controler etc. How do I correctly install the drivers and get my hardware to be recognized, mainly the wireless card which by the way is Intel?

lamaslany

When you say that the drivers do not install correctly what do you mean? Do you get an error during installation? Does the download extract the files to a folder rather than installing the driver for you?

McKnife

First install the chipset drivers and reboot. If you try to install anything prior to those, you might run into problems like this.

PUNKY

Did you try drivers from the link:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67853

wataskier227

ASKER

nothing happens after the install of any driver. no error messages. can someone give me a link to the xp chipset driver or tell me the specific link

wataskier227

ASKER

nvm. i installed the chipset driver. restarted and re-installed all the other drivers. nothing changed

Alan Henderson

A lot of info here including a link to chipset drivers.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=136351&highlight=t61+xp+sp2+clean+install

Also check:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=816

Above link found on this thread which may be relevant to some of your issues:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=131973

wataskier227

ASKER

still finding absolutely no luck. someone please help. my situation is growing desperate and quite frustrating. are there ANY options? all i need to do is install drivers!! why is it so difficult? i heard someone mention something about ordering XP Recovery disks from Lenovo for my T61, is that possible?

slam69

As far as I can tell all your drivers are available from lenovo website

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-67853.html

If you can try tehre and report back which one syou are struggling with afterwards listing the devices with teh yellow exclamation marks

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