Windows Drivers at Install

[Drezha]

I’ve formatted my Lenovo X220 back to Windows 10 in preparation for selling it, though the plan was to leave it as a new install for someone to purchase.

However, in doing so, I’ve noticed it boots into the opening screen (which is fine) but the display isn’t great (because the drivers aren’t installed). Short of downloading the drivers and telling the purchaser to install them, can I install them when I install Windows or with the new features in Windows 10, can I create an account and everything, install them and then return it to a “new” install so the purchaser has to go through all the setup questions again?

Mind, I can’t see X220 Windows 10 drivers on the Lenovo website now I’m looking (though I know I was running Windows 10 fine on it previously!) :scratch:

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Dave Rice]

Just leave it a bit, <15 but usually <5 minutes, and it will sort itself out with the pukka Intel driver and utilities.

You won’t get any drivers from Lenovo for Windows Anniversary (although they did do W10 ver 1) but go to Intel and download the driver update utility.

If there’s a fingerprint reader (and some other hardware) it generally won’t work until you do this. It will then work just fine with Windows Hello.

[Drezha]

Dave Rice wrote:

Just leave it a bit, <15 but usually <5 minutes, and it will sort itself out with the pukka Intel driver and utilities. You won’t get any drivers from Lenovo for Windows Anniversary (although they did do W10 ver 1) but go to Intel and download the driver update utility. If there’s a fingerprint reader (and some other hardware) it generally won’t work until you do this. It will then work just fine with Windows Hello.

This requires that I create an account though?

Can I then “reset it to factory” to have the new buyer start from scratch to set up the user etc as they want? I assume I can use the Windows Reset function?

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Dave Rice]

No, nothing will happen until there is a user.

Given my experiences when I reset W10 Anniversary on my T420, I would set it up for them with a default user in all respects. If they have no knowledge that’s exactly what they’ll do. If they have knowledge they can reset what they want.

It all upgraded from W7 to W10 and then Anniversary just fine. All the Lenovo stuff was present and still worked. Doing the reset wiped out all the Lenovo stuff, device manager was just full of unknown devices and I’ll bet yours is too. The display sorted itself out but I needed to go to Intel to get the chipset drivers (and probably others) as Lenovo had cut support from Anniversary onwards (although some generic utilities like battery monitor are still available) to get everything else working.

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