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ibm T23
Name: installer Date: July 17, 2002 at 06:22:28 Pacific
Comment:
i have install win2K then i Have install all devices ho i know... but the pc asks me to install an PCI Device and a Unknow Device
and don't know what drivers i need for theses devices? pleas help
Name: dude Date: July 17, 2002 at 06:36:46 Pacific
Reply:
It should refer to the type of device like multimedia would be the sound card.... What kind does it say?
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Response Number 2
Name: Pete Date: July 17, 2002 at 06:54:56 Pacific
Reply:
I have seen this come up on a laptop with a bad motherboard. You could try the ibm web site for win2k drivers, or use the recovery cd to reinstall if you have it. Even if the recovery cd is another OS, I'd try it to rule out the motherboard issue.
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Response Number 3
Name: mike Date: July 17, 2002 at 06:59:08 Pacific
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go to the OEM's of the laptop website and download all the updated drivers for W2K.
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Response Number 4
Name: Spiney69 Date: July 18, 2002 at 03:49:00 Pacific
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To be brutally honest my opionion of IBM laptops is that their hardware is very very deviant, to the extent that even newer P'n'P OS's don't have a clue what most of the devices are. I built a T23 from scratch with Windows 2000 because the company doesn't allow XP, it was a nightmare. I only did it once because after that I imaged it, but if I remember correctly the unknown device is power management. The PCI device may be a NIC or a sound card which in some cases is different from one T23 to the next. Regretably you just need to download loads of drivers and keep trying until there are no unknown devices. IBM laptops are the hardest to buil that I have come accross!!
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Response Number 5
Name: Alfie Date: July 19, 2002 at 00:56:00 Pacific
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these is unknown device which w2k cannot recognize. go to device manager and right click on the unknown device and choose upgrade driver and let the system search for the driver. I supposed you have a cd drive for your thinkpad. And walah, it should be there. Mostly this is a IBM PM device for power manament.
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