T61 XP clean install - NOT A NOOB QUESTION

ok, before anyone jumps on me - yes, I know what I am doing and yes, I read everything I could and have installed ALL of the drivers ttat I could possibly find - may have missed something and that is why I'm asking for help..

Now, a little defensive I know, but I've seen some of the recent threads...

Back to our normal program. I have three unknown "Base System Device" errors showing up in Device Manager after installing XP Media Center Edition (SP2 latest everything etc.) All devices appear to be functional - FP reader, SD reader, no camera, no BT - so I can't figure it out, but it bugs me.

1. Has anyone else experienced this?
2. Could someone provide me with a screen shot of their device manager or take a look at mine ane help me figure out what's missing?
3. Anyone have a fix that was make this easy and go away without perusing screenshots?

Thanks!
William

 

Have you installed the "Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility"? It should be the first thing to install after the OS.

You can download it here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=816

 

Thanks, yep - did that.

I even called Lenovo and they said that "maybe some of the drivers I needed were not on the web site"

I'm putting Vista back on and about ready to sell this and keep the MacBook Pro I bought when this one was supposed to be "not shipping" forever

 

What made you choose the MBP over the T61?

 

Hmmmm. A long way you might try is to put the original vista back on and compare your XP and Vista device managers. I'd give you a picture of mine if I owned one. There don't seem to be many people on here who have a T61 and want to share info/reviews.

By the way, are you thinking about running vista solely on your macbook? I was debating buying a macbook but the driver and vista support seemed to be so so. What do think?

 

Do you have turbo memory? I'm pretty sure there is no XP driver for it. And why would you revert a laptop just because a device you obviously never knew was there to begin with isn't installed?

 

Chem - always been on my list of "wants" and the new hardware is the best I've seen from Apple - or any PC maker - at the moment. It also runs both OS's well at the same time and will let me do more outside of the MS world (only one I've ever known in 18 years).

xnviews - setting up bootcapm 1.3 now and can let you know

no turbo memory

 

Get the hardware ID from device manager and do a Google search to see what it turns up.

 

Just registered to contribute here, hoping it will help.

For the three base system drives, just install

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-66355.html

 

Hi, all,

I just got my first laptop, T61 (w/o turbo memory), and I have a couple of questions for you.

I plan to clean install to xp from embedded vista because personally I think vista is not stable yet as someone wrote in this forum too. Here are my questions:

1) On the T61 hard drive, Lenovo allocated some space for restoration using blue 'ThinkVantage' button. Does it still remain though I make a clean installation?

2) I could find the clean installation guide for vista, but couldn't find that for XP. Some people just described they are having a hard time to detect wireless devices. Could someone let me know how to clean install XP on my T61?

Your kind explanation would be appreciated!

 

I posted a clean install review last night. I do have Turbo Memory, but here's a SS of my device manager.

 

yep I did that, I had three "Base system Device" with missing drivers. Right click on the "Base system Device" and select "update drivers software" then select the option serach on the web for drivers. I did this in windows vista home basic. Those are actually devices for the controllers.

 

Out of curiosity, did anyone tried to install XP PRO SP2, then installed ThinkVantage and let it install everything needed?

 

It's always a possibility that it might work. However, after installing ThinkVantage on my first build, I began having problems with reboots, hibernation, etc...

Check out My XP SP install thread for more details.

-skint

 

Yes that's good, I have received a T61 with WinXP SP2 in french and do a Fresh install with XP SP2 En, and had the same problem.

Even if my T61 as no Card Reader, I have installed the driver

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-68053

and this solve my issue.

 

We really need a thorough guide to do a clean install for XP Pro on the T61, just like the guide that Stallen did for Vista users.

I have done clean installs on my home PC many times. And I'm still not comfortable doing it on my brand new T61p. There are lots of drivers that I dont even know are that need to be installed that I never installed before.

I'm surprised this hasnt been done already. Yes I have seen a SkinT80's thread of how to do it. But its not as detailed and there are two broken links in that thread. The "HotKey Driver" and "Storage Matrix Driver" links dont work for me. I hit the "I agree" link but then I get "The page cannot be displayed" on IE.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=136351

 

The three baseline devices are from your RicOh 4-in-1 card reader. Download the driver and update manually for each device by pointing to the directory where you extracted it from. Each type like XD,SD,CF, etc. will need to be installed manually.

 

dummy question: what is 4-1 or 5-1? Does it include CF card?

 

I posted this couple of days ago and still did not get any response:

I did a clean installation on my new T61 with XP pro with SP2. Everything went smoothly except there is one more unknown device.

I clicked the property of it and it showed:
Location 65535 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus)
HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_2BFA&SUBSYS_17AA201B&REV_0900\4&30E64BEC&1&0102

Is it related to UAA High Def Audio Driver? I installed this driver but don't know how to check whether it was intalled or not

I basically followed the following links (mostly the second and third links):
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=179320
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=144349
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=136351
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=161612

Please advise

thanks,
JJCPA

 

Please follow the guide I created in my signature. I see you have trouble with the UAA installation. In my guide, scroll down until you see the proper way to install UAA.

 

hey thanks for the help here, the Lenovo 4 in 1 card reader was the missing driver set!

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-68053