Please I don't want to see THE GREAT VISTA in my life once again

Hi all,
I installed XP on my new T61.
I had a lot of errors that were not resolved.
Anyone please help me. I spent 5 days and tis is my 6th dsy to solve these issues. I tried my level best. But no luck. PLease Please Please help me

1. I don't get the battery meter on the task bar.
2. I don't get any audio at all.
3. No volume buttons working and no mute button working.
4. The middle button above the track pad (used to scroll down pages) is not working.
I love to use the trackpoint but with out this button working its hard for me to read the pdfs.
5. The Screen blinks at the start up while I'm logging into windows.

I went mad and downloaded all the 97 drivers in the lenovo website and installed all the 97 drivers but still no luck.

Is that going to cause a problem?
Can you please please please help me in this.

Otherwise I have to go back to the GREAT VISTA.

Thanks & Regards,
Satish.

 

With the meter I had the same problem. I had to go to power options and go in every setting in there. I did not modify and the battery meter showed up. I gave up on XP because my laptop was performing poorly and I was forced to go back to Vista. Hope you find a solution with XP.

 

sounds like you both need to search of how to do a clean install on XP.

mine, unlike yours, works awesome, with all features available + some extra, such as configurable blue thinkvantage button, programmable fan speed, overclocked video card, and so on ..

you don't have to install all drivers found on the Lenovos page, but only those that your system needs.

 

Maybe you can tell me what I missed out...

1. Copy Original XP kit on HDD
2. Download SP3
3. Download INTEL SATA drivers.
4. Integrate SP3 and SATA drivers with N-Lite
5. Extract bootloader with ISO buster, put booloader in new slipped kit, burn with NERO.
6. Boot from CD,format everything, install Windows XP SP3 on SATA successfully.
7. Update, the whole thing, install Asus XP drivers, Office 2007, CS4 Master, check the programs to see if they work and ...
8. Keyboard was lagging in word. I installed and reinstalled the ATK driver 20 times.
9. My laptop was like a snail. It had a 30 second sleep period and then it would start opening apps.
10. Updated Intel Sata Storage.
11. No change, windows was using a 2001 driver.
12. Format C:\ put Vista back.

Overall my U6 was slower than a 5 year old Prescott on XP. I had to put Vista back.

The only thing I did not try was to install XP Sp3 in compatible mode. Why would I do that when I can use my SATA in enhanced?

Mate, next time when you decide to be cocky and patronise, bear in mind that some people here know what a computer is. Having said that, you should do some reading on who you are talking too next time.

 

Dude, it's not the ThinkPad user's problem that Asus has poor drivers for your model. Go complain in the Asus section! Or you might aswell contact Microsoft to join their marketing team

@satishdsc: What is the modelnumber of your T61? It should be in a form like this:

7664-16U

It's located on a label on the underside of your laptop. Do NOT post your Windows s/n!

My T61 7664-16U is working great on XP. It took me some time to figure out how to control the Wifi using Fn+F5, but I got that working too. It's a lot faster now and runs a lot longer on the same battery. To the trashbin with Vista!

When you post your modelnumber we can exactly tell you what drivers to install and what not to install.

@miro_gt: Do you have some info on those extra's?

 

Sounds like you both need to take a lesson from what was the second largest computer company in the world.

Dont do what my house mate does and run anything but the software the was made for that operating system. Whether you know it or not you've got more pulling power with a single vendor solution.

 

Hey Guys Can you pleas etell me what to do now?
My Laptop is
Thinkpad T61
My type is 6481 - CTR
This is what is on the back of the laptop.

T61 T9300 (2.5 GHz), 3 GB RAM , 160 GB @ 7200 RPM, 14.1 inch
1280 * 800
128MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS140
Intel 802.11agn Wireless
Bluetooth/Modem,
1GB Ethernet, Ultranav, Secure Chip

Any one who has downgraded or who has the knowledge or if you do have the knowledge can you please give me a list of what are the drivers that are required to run a XP success fully on the laptop

Can any one please help me

Thanks & Regards,
Satish.

 

Hey miro_gt ,
Can you please guide me how to go continue my installation
I don't know what are the drivers i need to install and what I should not install.
If you please provide me your contact details I can please take your guidance.
Or else you can make a list of the drivers that are needed for me to download.
I tried a lot on the net but all my effort went in vein.
Can you please help me as you tasted the success on installing XP.

Thanks & Regards,
Satish.

 

OK, this is the guide that I have developed for my laptop. I haven't posted it on here since it's kinda for advanced users and I'm kinda lazy to post all the links for the drivers, but I hope you can find those on Lenovos site. The one driver not there is the UAA HD Audio, but a quick google search will do the job on it, lol.

for step 2, look into the swtools folder (this step is only if your XP installation CD was made from the i386 folder on your hard drive - I had to create installation CD too)

you can skip the first step also if you already have installation CD.

you can see my spec. in my signature, if you're interested of what I have.


*************** GUIDE ******************

Note: every time when asked to automatically search and install drivers for "Found New Hardware", always click CANCEL !

Note: pay attention to where each driver installs in the C:\DRIVERS folder

Note: look for setup.exe when installing different drivers, unless otherwise specified



Install the following in the same order:





- Enter BIOS and turn AHCI off !!

1. Windows XP - make CD and install

http://www.howtohaven.com/system/createwindowssetupdisk.shtml

2. In SAFE mode, install 883517us.exe

- reboot; Windows will start in normal mode

3. Intel Chipset Support

- reboot

4. Intel Matrix Storage Manager

- run \PREPARE\install.cmd

- reboot; enter BIOS and turn AHCI on

- on Found New Hardware, click CANCEL

- open Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers -> update PCI device from a specific location -> \IMSM

- reboot

5. UAA HD Audio

- on Found New Hardware, click CANCEL

6. ACPI

- reboot

- on Found New Hardware, click CANCEL

7. Trusted Platform Module

- open Device Manager -> Other devices -> update unknown device from a specific location -> \TPM

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the following installation order does not matter
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8. UltraNav Driver

- reboot

- on Found New Hardware, click CANCEL

9. UltraNav Utility (for Fn+F8)

- reboot

- on Found New Hardware, click CANCEL

10. SoundMAX

- reboot

11. Modem

- it will install Digital Line Detect as well

12. LAN (Ethernet)

- open Device Manager -> Other devices -> update Ethernet Controller from a specific location -> \PRO1000\Win32

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the following may differ depending on the installed hardware
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13. Wireless

- run \WLANINT2\XP\Apps\x32\iProInst.exe

- it will install 2 things:

Wireless LAN adapter driver

Intel PROSet\Wireless

- reboot

14. Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate

- double click the Bluetooth icon on the system tray -> this will install drivers for various bluetooth devices

15. Video

- reboot

- turn the blue color down to 42%, lol

16. Monitor

- open Device Manager -> Monitors -> update Plug and Play Monitor from a specific location -> \MONITOR

17. FingerPrint

- reboot

- enroll finger prints, lol

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the following are useful utilities
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18. Hotkey (for Fn+F5)

- install On Screen Display only

- reboot

19. EasyEject (for Fn+F9)

- reboot

20. ThinkVantage Active Protection (for HDD protection)

- reboot

21. Sonic Multimedia Center for Think Offerings

- run \SWTOOLS\APPS\MMCfTO\SETUP.CMD

- reboot

- uninstall Sonic DLA from Control Panel (gives problems with other CD/DVD programs)

- reboot

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the following is antivirus and firewall
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- AVG free

- Zone Alarm

- Direct X

- Windows Service Pack 3

- connect to Internet and let Windows update itself again

- defragment the HDD .. if you want

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done; install whatever other software you use
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the extras come from programs such as:
- tpfancontrol - controls the fan speed
- rivatuner - overclocks the GPU
- search for thinkvantage button zip file on here - I don't have the link but this zip contains 2 files that control and customize the blue button. Mine currently does "log off" thought I can program it to do anything, such as start specific program for example. If you don't find it, I guess I can zip those and give you the link later

 

Wishmaker,

I don't know what you know about computers but obviously you're the one that has problems with clean install, not me. And just for comparision, where you wrote point number 7 "install Asus XP drivers", I wrote 3 pages on how to install thinkpad drivers .. so I don't know what you did and what you did not.

don't make me come fix your computer please