Recent content by avidscavenger

OK darn it I found the problem and of course it was staring me in the face. There was a missing "Intel Platform Driver" that apparently includes keyboard, touchpad, battery and sound among other things. I hope at least this will help someone else at some point.

It used to work but I can't answer the question of when it stopped working as it's not my computer and the owner doesn't know. I have re-installed windows. Makes no difference apart from wasting half a day aka a Windows "moment". I've done BIOS reset, also no difference. I'm trying to get...

I'm trying to help a friend resolve a problem with his Lenovo Ideapad laptop, model 100S-11IBY The problem appears to be that Windows 10 doesn't detect some of the hardware, most noticeably the keyboard and touchpad, but also the battery and sound card. That is, these devices simply do not...