T420 4177-CT0 Firewire!?!?!

Hello, just received a T420 4177-CT0 and I was wondering how in the heck I enable the Firewire port in Win7?! The port is physically there and enabled in the BIOS but is not showing up in device manager. I've been looking around and can't find any info on a driver or such.
The reason i'm trying to enable it is that i'm going to purchase an audio interface for recording soon and was wondering if I should go with a USB 2.0 or Firewire card.
Any ideas/suggestions?!!?
thx for your time
jcm

I don't see mine in device manager, but I have used it with my miniDV camera and it works fine.
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Screen Upgrade on T420 4177

Dear Experts,
I have recently been upgraded by my company from a T400 thinkpad to a T420. My one disappointment is that my T400 had a max screen resolution of 1440 x 900, but my T420 has the lower end screen and a max resolution of 1366 x 768. I travel with this laptop often, so always have the luxury of a second monitor.
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Hi,
Your words about the screen with 1600x1200 resolution as available upgrade for t420 sound a bit strange since this screen has 4:3 aspect ratio while t420 supports the screen with 16:9 aspect ratio.
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T420 4177 No USB Ports Responding

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As you are experiencing USB ports are not responding. I would suggest you to please uninstall the USB drivers from the Device Manager and then restart the system.
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When I hit the right arrow bottum for 10 times. It only responded 8~9 times. Will this problem in the warranty? How long will this fix takes? I really need to use this computer these days.

You are in UK right? This is most likely an issue with the keyboard. If you contact warranty support they should help you out.
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with your laptop this method is not possible, you would need the Nvidia equipped GPU to do this.
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Worst ever Customer support in my life

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Your complaint is with the computer store that you took the computer to. Go back to the store in person and get your computer back. They've had it long enough for you to know they are never going to fix it. Then call the Lenovo customer service number on this website (for India) and work with them.
This is a user forum, not a Lenovo customer service forum. By all means take the computer store to court (if the Indian court system is anything like the US system, you are wasting your time), but they are not lenovo..
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Formerly 600E 2645, T30 2366, X31 2673, T40 2373, T41 2379, T42 2373, T42 2379, T60 1952, T61p 8889, T61p 8891
Currently T420 4177-CTO, T430 2347-A54, T430 2349-L64, T430 2347-UN9, T430 2342-CTR, Ideapad K1, H520S 2561-1LU
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Ah, OK, thanks Jin.
Keith
Formerly 600E 2645, T30 2366, X31 2673, T40 2373, T41 2379, T42 2373, T42 2379, T60 1952, T61p 8889, T61p 8891
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Formerly 600E 2645, T30 2366, X31 2673, T40 2373, T41 2379, T42 2373, T42 2379, T60 1952, T61p 8889, T61p 8891
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Formerly 600E 2645, T30 2366, X31 2673, T40 2373, T41 2379, T42 2373, T42 2379, T60 1952, T61p 8889, T61p 8891
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