16 Color. Waste of a laptop

[Vernon L. Gratt]

I have an IBM R51 1829 THINKPAD LAPTOP. I recently uninstalled windows xp,because it was giving me alot of problems. I reinstalled windows 2000. Now I have only 16 colors and standard VGA. I downloaded drivers from IBM,but they won't work. I do not have a copy of windows xp. That is why I installed windows 2000. HELP ME!

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Make sure you have SP4 and the later Roll-up installed as well.
Are you sure you got the correct drivers?
The official drivers are here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41918

 

[Nodsu]

The best solution to the "won't work" problem is "make it work".

"Won't work" means what?

BTW, if you download and run the .exe you get from IBM/Lenovo, it only extracts the installation files. You then have to go to the relevant folder and run the actual setup manually, unless you use the IBM/Lenovo official Software Installer utility (I really recommend that you do).