!!DRIVERS ARE NO GOOD!!

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I have a IBM Thinkpad T42 that I have just wiped clean and installed XP PRO.
I'v downloaded the appropriate drivers from IBM's website and >none< work. Iv
scoured the web and have found many hard to find drivers for many systems in
the past but this is the first time that I have gone to the manufacturer's
website to download the specific drivers for a system just for them NOT to
work. I am ToTaLLy confoosed on this one here. Could anybody out there kick
me in the right direction and enlighten me on what I may be missing that im
JUST NOT SEEING??

Product ID: 2373k3u
Download site....
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/s...vm&operatingsystemind=49979&machineind=171874

THANX N ADVANCE!!! Wayne B.
 
CmosDriver said:
I have a IBM Thinkpad T42 that I have just wiped clean and installed XP
PRO.
I'v downloaded the appropriate drivers from IBM's website and >none< work.
Iv
scoured the web and have found many hard to find drivers for many systems
in
the past but this is the first time that I have gone to the manufacturer's
website to download the specific drivers for a system just for them NOT to
work. I am ToTaLLy confoosed on this one here. Could anybody out there
kick
me in the right direction and enlighten me on what I may be missing that
im
JUST NOT SEEING??

Product ID: 2373k3u
Download site....
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/s...vm&operatingsystemind=49979&machineind=171874

THANX N ADVANCE!!! Wayne B.
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When I click on that site it takes me to ALL drivers for All operating
systems. Did you tell it to show only XP drivers? Did you install the
motherboard drivers before any other drivers?
 
When I click on that site it takes me to ALL drivers for All operating
systems. Did you tell it to show only XP drivers? Did you install the
motherboard drivers before any other drivers?

I chose XP before I began downloading. That would be this page here....
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http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/s...yind=0&operatingsystemind=53385&validate=true

and if ur referring to the chipset drivers, I attempted to install those
first which is this page.....
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-46058
 
CmosDriver said:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/s...yind=0&operatingsystemind=53385&validate=true

and if ur referring to the chipset drivers, I attempted to install those
first which is this page.....
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-46058
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You should have the proper drivers for your system. Now, you say that "and
none< work." Exactly what is happening when you attempt to double click on
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the oss206ww.exe file that you have saved to the hard drive or onto a CD?
Error messages are important to be worded exactly.
 
LVTravel said:
You should have the proper drivers for your system. Now, you say that "and
the oss206ww.exe file that you have saved to the hard drive or onto a CD?
Error messages are important to be worded exactly.
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I double click them.. go thru the normal procedure... I run it... accept the
terms...
proceed to install by clicking a few more times. They say its finished...
and nothing changes.
No messages, no anything. Thats the way it is for each one that I have tried
thus far.
Totally NoThinG!!!! It's like the drivers are for a different system and the
notebook doesnt recognize anything.
 
CmosDriver said:
I double click them.. go thru the normal procedure... I run it... accept
the
terms...
proceed to install by clicking a few more times. They say its finished...
and nothing changes.
No messages, no anything. Thats the way it is for each one that I have
tried
thus far.
Totally NoThinG!!!! It's like the drivers are for a different system and
the
notebook doesnt recognize anything.
Click to expand...

How do you know that the drivers aren't installing? Have you gone to the
video adapter and looked at the video driver information? Can you use the
built in network card or wireless? If so, the drivers are installed. Not
all driver installation programs give a "driver successfully installed"
message. I don't have the notebook you have but reinstalling on other makes
of computers show that there is a possibility of the drivers being
successfully installed without any messages.

Look at the settings for the various devices (right click My Computer, left
click Manage, Device Manager and then open the various items by left
clicking on the + sign and then right clicking the device and left click on
properties to see the driver details tab. The really significant ones are
Display adapters, sound...game controllers, network adapters and Modems, If
they show any driver other than Microsoft, they have probably been installed
OK.
 
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