Drivers for T43 laptop with XP Pro

HI,
There is no specific order for installing drivers but usually we install VGA and sound driver first and then the others for example LAN driver, Bluetooth(if available), Wifi driver etc.


Regards

Dani

The chipset drivers, if there are any, should always be the first to install, as they are the motherboard drivers on which all others depend on to work properly. After that it usually doesn't matter, except with some sound drivers, where there often are two drivers, the UAA and the actual sound card drivers. If the UAA drivers aren't installed first the sound driver often won't install.

I'd install the chipset drivers first; then the network drivers ==> then NOTHING else until you've done all of the Windows Updates.     Windows Update will often find the other drivers you need as part of the update process.

Once XP is up-to-date through SP3 and all updates, look at Device Manager and see if it's now "clean".     If not, THEN install the drivers for the remaining unknowns in Device Manager.

Note:   If by chance the system already knows about the network card (i.e. you can already get on line) ... then don't install ANY drivers until after the update process.

Since you are actually dealing with a Thinkpad class machine - you should consider using the System Update software version 4.0 or better provided by Lenovo which will guide you to the drivers recommended by the hw vendor. Try the link here http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-73695

Skarai,

When I tried your link, I received a message stating that this only works with Windows 7 machines.  Also, I got every driver installed, but I'm missing two drivers:  

Biometric compresor
 
Multimedia Audio Controller

Which drivers are these?

here an article for DELL -but it applies to all pc's :  http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/downloads/en/driver_install_order

Multimedia Audio Controller
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/1ya210ww.exe

Biometric compresor
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/thinkvantage_en/p961b_fprx32_562ww.exe

I just installed the Audio driver and it ran fine.  I rebooted and although I can modify the sound settings (high and low sound volume), I can't hear anything.  I attempted the install again, but the same outcome.  I tried this on youtube and other websites that I know have sound, but nothing.  I also made sure that the websites sound volume was operational, but still can't hear anything.

Help!

Right-click on the speaker icon and select "Adjust audio properties"

On the first tab (Volume) click the Advanced button in the Speaker settings area and see what is selected under Speaker setup.     You may not have your desktop speakers selected.

If that looks okay, click on the Audio tab, and check the default Sound playback device.