T400 - Windows XP 64-bit drivers???

Hello,

New owner of a T400, and I am trying to get set up with Windows XP 64 bit. As documented previously, it has been very difficult to find a complete set of drivers I need to get my system going. I spent all day today trying to find drivers, and my system is a total mess.

Has anyone out there got T400 and done a fresh install of XP 64 bit successfully? Where have you located all the drivers? Would anyone be so willing as to either provide me with the necessary drivers, or point me to the right direction? Lenovo's driver page is very limited when it comes to 64 bit drivers, and I know that is because 64 bit is not very well supported - but I have seen numerous people say they are running T400s with XP 64 bit...I've also run the ThinkVantage System Update utility, but everytime I try to install a device it complains for one reason or another...the system just seems so unstable....

Can someone please help? Any help is much appreciated.

 

it is fully supported, I am running x64 I made fresh install with as I type this

go to the Clean Install Guide by stallen

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=144783

it has the required links
use the driver matrix link, click on T400

Some of the Vista drivers are 32-bit, but if there is no separate 64-bit driver, it will work for both
but he put it all down in the page

make sure you install them in the right order, and make sure you reboot after each step, like he indicated

good luck

 

and, yeah, if you're the impatient type, and do not do this methodically, you might end up spending more time in the end
so I'll share what I did, take it or leave it, but I highly recommend it:

I first downloaded ALL the drivers I set out to install
I then numbered them in the order with which they were to be installed
I then unzipped them in separate folders, again numbered in the same order

So I ended up with two sets of folders, each numbered, one for the drivers as I downloaded them (so I can download updates with the same method later on and know exactly what I had in the past), and the other unzipped as I would be using for the installation

During the installation, I downloaded nothing, I unzipped nothing, and it went very smoothly.

I then burnt a dvd of the above for future use.

I used it twice, for two clean installs

 

Here's the list of what I did:
0-Clean install Vista x64
1-ABR (the windows key thingie stallen describes in his thread)
2-Intel Chipset Driver
3-Intel Matrix Storage Manager
4-IBM Power Management Driver
5-System Interface Driver
6-Lenovo Power Manager
7-ATI and Intel Video
8-Audio
9-UltraNav Driver
10-UltraNav Utility
11-Wireless
12-Hotkey Driver (optional)
13-Card Reader Driver Ricoh
14-Ethernet Driver
15-Bluetooth
16-Fingerprint
17-Access Connections
18-Camera
19-Monitor File
20-Management Engine Interface (Intel AMT 4.0, filename:7vr109ww)
21-Thinkvantage System Update

The last one takes care of missing stuff, but I did not install all, since not all are necessary for me

 

Hey, thanks for the info. Looks great.

Quick question: It looks like that guide is for Visa x64, right? Were your clean installs also for Vista x64? I was looking for XP x64, but I don't mind giving the guide a shot. Just don't want to go through it all if the Vista x64 instructions won't work for XP x64.

Thanks again for your help, very much appreciated.

 

duh (slaps forehead!)
this is hilarious..

yes. no. dunno...

it was all for Vista x64.

others were complaining that there is inadequate support for XP x64 drivers, I don't know myself

BTW: my T400 came with XP but I found that Vista
-runs just fine, is fast enough, etc
-gives 2 more hours on the 9-cell battery compared to XP

 

Has somebody managed to get the System Update running under XP x64? When I try to start it it stops at 10/11%?!

I did change the registry and renamed the key to 2765D2G in 3 places but it didn't help.

 

Yup. Honestly alot of the bad press on Vista is due to just that... bad press. People hear it's bad so they then start spreading it more. Microsoft basically just did poorly with advertising/PR.

eg.
Consuming RAM - RAM is there to be used. It's released when needed. It does nothing but speed up load times.
UAC - All it is is the exact same security that is implemented in *NIX... including the vaunted Mac OS X. The problem is alot of Windows apps are poorly written (from a security standpoint) and write stuff places they shouldn't have been in the first place.