I ordered this from amazon and windows was said to have not been installed on the computer at all. this is my first computer, so what do I do to get internet and an oiperating system on it when it comes? I am far from a tech wiz, so any info would be helpful.
@burtonbufford As long as it has a hard drive, all you need is a windows disk (Linux disk would work too), and to get the drivers, just google "IBM Thinkpad R51 Drivers" and the first/second result should be a lenovo site, download the drivers from there.
I got this one as an "early" Christmas gift from my teacher who also is a great friend. mine only has 512mb of ram and the battery is totally dead but i got another one for 25euro on the german amazon. c: Its just heavy elsethan is it cool. and the little light in the screen made the whole school class laugh like never before. I told them that it was smart only seven years back.. hehe.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR HELPING ME SORT MY WIFI. anouther thing is that i have installed the drivers for the audio from ibm agian useless then installed this think its Sound fx or something and its still no sound. i have gained speaker in the taskbar. can you help. thanks
@U2007rjd The driver I used (at least I think I used) was the one from the lenovo site, you can find it by googling "IBM Thinkpad R51 Drivers" without quotes.
Hi i have just accired a ibm r51 2887-k2g and installed XP pro sp2 but am haveing probems installing the wifi so it works. i have used the drivers off the ibm website and am haveing no luck can you help me please its really annoying be great if you can email me edge_2007@hotmail.co.uk to solve this issue
the first link this link is dead well its changed. and the other just bring me up to the main page on intel download centre. what is the file called that i have to search for.
Wait, how did you get the built-in wireless to work? I can't seem to get it working on mine, I downloaded the driver from the Lenovo website, but when I install it, nothing happens!
@IBMThinkPadR51 I had the same problem trying to get the lenovo drivers to work, so I went to Intel's site and got the 2200B/G drivers, So far, no problems.
I ordered this from amazon and windows was said to have not been installed on the computer at all. this is my first computer, so what do I do to get internet and an oiperating system on it when it comes? I am far from a tech wiz, so any info would be helpful.
burtonbufford 3 days ago
@burtonbufford As long as it has a hard drive, all you need is a windows disk (Linux disk would work too), and to get the drivers, just google "IBM Thinkpad R51 Drivers" and the first/second result should be a lenovo site, download the drivers from there.
MezashiTheCat 3 days ago
I got this one as an "early" Christmas gift from my teacher who also is a great friend. mine only has 512mb of ram and the battery is totally dead but i got another one for 25euro on the german amazon. c: Its just heavy elsethan is it cool. and the little light in the screen made the whole school class laugh like never before. I told them that it was smart only seven years back.. hehe.
TheIceteaCollie 3 months ago
ok the 2200B/G intel driver works! THX!
jakubnowicki91 3 months ago
What drivers do you use to turn on wifi? My dont work :(!
jakubnowicki91 3 months ago
@joeyhcmc, yea but i bet if you dropped one of these bitches it wouldnt have a scratch on it :p
Hawkins97 3 months ago
lol all i heard was
'you can play minecraft on this thing"
How good though?
Devinowski 4 months ago
@Devinowski since 1.8 came out, it's barely playable, you need to turn off everything just to play at 20+ fps.....
MezashiTheCat 4 months ago
THANKS SO MUCH FOR HELPING ME SORT MY WIFI. anouther thing is that i have installed the drivers for the audio from ibm agian useless then installed this think its Sound fx or something and its still no sound. i have gained speaker in the taskbar. can you help. thanks
U2007rjd 4 months ago
@U2007rjd The driver I used (at least I think I used) was the one from the lenovo site, you can find it by googling "IBM Thinkpad R51 Drivers" without quotes.
MezashiTheCat 4 months ago
Hi i have just accired a ibm r51 2887-k2g and installed XP pro sp2 but am haveing probems installing the wifi so it works. i have used the drivers off the ibm website and am haveing no luck can you help me please its really annoying be great if you can email me edge_2007@hotmail.co.uk to solve this issue
U2007rjd 4 months ago
@U2007rjd
the first link this link is dead well its changed. and the other just bring me up to the main page on intel download centre. what is the file called that i have to search for.
U2007rjd 4 months ago
Too thick...
joeyhcmc 4 months ago
Wait, how did you get the built-in wireless to work? I can't seem to get it working on mine, I downloaded the driver from the Lenovo website, but when I install it, nothing happens!
IBMThinkPadR51 5 months ago
@IBMThinkPadR51 I had the same problem trying to get the lenovo drivers to work, so I went to Intel's site and got the 2200B/G drivers, So far, no problems.
MezashiTheCat 5 months ago
@MezashiTheCat Oh OK. Thanks! Can you give me a link to the website or something?
IBMThinkPadR51 5 months ago
Finally! Another R51 owner! I love my R51!
IBMThinkPadR51 5 months ago
@Ki6465 it is a 7500, and thanks!
MezashiTheCat 5 months ago
i liked your video :D
Ki6465 5 months ago
is it a mobility ati radeon 7500 card?
Ki6465 5 months ago