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Wangja
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Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject: Drivers for IBM laptop |
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I recently bought a new IBM laptop.
It came "complete" with XP-home, Korean so I bought and installed XP-pro English.
That left me with few of the drivers necessary. Most were installed by a friendly store but one for the sound card is missing. Every time on startup it says "new hardware found" and if I accept the installation, it fails to find them. I have looked on the IBM site but cannot find the one necessary.
The pity is I use the sond card quite a lot for radio and Skype etc.
Any ideas? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Which model is the laptop? |
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Wangja
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a Thinkpad Z60t: I found the automatic software updates routine on the support site and am running that right now. Fingers crossed .. |
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eamo
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| It's a Thinkpad Z60t: I found the automatic software updates routine on the support site and am running that right now. Fingers crossed .. |
If that doesn't work try this IBM support page.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-61413
It's a download for the audio driver alone. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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I am in a second pass having installed nearly 30 missing or updated drivers, including some audio stuff.
Once that's done I'll go to that link and thank you mightily for the help.
Nay, gladly wilst I pay the 3 Alley bill! |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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eamo, thanks again, all sorted out. I spent about 4 hours on the site and installed some 30+ drivers.
The support site is excellent and IMHO reason enough to stay with IBM.
BTW, are you going to the rugby on saturday? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
eamo, thanks again, all sorted out. I spent about 4 hours on the site and installed some 30+ drivers.
The support site is excellent and IMHO reason enough to stay with IBM.
BTW, are you going to the rugby on saturday? |
I too have a newer (6 mo. old) IBM thinkpad that is in Korean and was wondering about converting it to English winbdows as well.
Were you able to access the internet and/or IBM support site (blue botton?) after changing Windows or did you have some drivers presaved or a set of rescue disks / CD?
I would like to make the change over as well but am a little leary about the attempt.
Is there English support on the website (makes things easier cause I read English MUCH faster than Korean)?
Thanks, |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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I reckon if you have the original IBM disk, the change over should be very smooth as you can (presumably) access the specific drivers should be available. (I say this glibly as I was even unable to upgrade a US Toshiba from XP Home to XP Pro and had to revert to the original set up - I am no expert).
XP pro should give enough basic drivers to hook to the net and once there the IBM support site is bloody first class and you can even set up automatic updates if you want.
My problem was I did not have an original XP CD. It was a bind, but I am delighted to have done it. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
eamo, thanks again, all sorted out. I spent about 4 hours on the site and installed some 30+ drivers.
The support site is excellent and IMHO reason enough to stay with IBM.
BTW, are you going to the rugby on saturday? |
Good to see you can hear something again!
I'm not a rugby fan. Big games? Sure, but that's it. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
I reckon if you have the original IBM disk, the change over should be very smooth as you can (presumably) access the specific drivers should be available. (I say this glibly as I was even unable to upgrade a US Toshiba from XP Home to XP Pro and had to revert to the original set up - I am no expert).
XP pro should give enough basic drivers to hook to the net and once there the IBM support site is bloody first class and you can even set up automatic updates if you want.
My problem was I did not have an original XP CD. It was a bind, but I am delighted to have done it. |
This is my worry, IBM does NOT give (did not give me anyway) a rescue disk but depends on the "BLUE BUTTON" to rescue you. If you hoop the network drivers, then how can you access the "IBM support site".
This is why I am more than a little curious about your process.
Thanks. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Glad it's sorted.
After you have all the drivers you can back em up with an app. like "Driver Genius Pro". Then they are all put in one .exe file.
Go Allblacks! |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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Brilliant! Wish I'd known about that before. Thanks.
That may set the scene for ttompatz too - and I might have another shot with my Toshiba.
http://www.driver-soft.com/ |
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