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    T400 driver issue with Vista 64 - 3450

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Mohdoo, Sep 18, 2008.

  1. Mohdoo

    Mohdoo Notebook Guru

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    Hello! I have tried installing the drivers which are on the Lenovo website, and all I get is ATI mobility Radeon 3400 series, but not the exact model, of course with the yellow ! next to it.

    I remember seeing somewhere a guide of how to take a desktop driver and convert it to a mobile driver. Any tips?

    I do not have the restore partition, and I currently have it set in the BIOS to have switchable graphics with OS support.
     
    Mohdoo, Sep 18, 2008
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Did you save a copy of the SWTools folder?
     
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  3. Mohdoo

    Mohdoo Notebook Guru

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    No, I did not have a SWTools folder for Vista 64. Or are they all the same? Well, regardless, I did not save them :( Are they perhaps uploaded anywhere?
     
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    Zshazz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello. I used this guide to do a 64-bit clean install:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=294974

    The driver I used was this:

    http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70417


    You just install THAT driver, you don't need to install the other graphics drivers available. Following the guide exactly worked perfectly for me... just make absolutely sure the disk you have has SP1 or you install SP1... I vLited a disk without SP1 because I thought it had it on there... and that blew 4 hours of my time away >_<
     
    Zshazz, Sep 19, 2008
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  5. Mohdoo

    Mohdoo Notebook Guru

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    I looked at that guide, and it mentioned just using the ATI graphics and not the Intel graphics. They say to set the graphics to discrete and disable OS detection of switchable graphics.

    Is there no way to have switchable graphics actually working? :(
     
    Mohdoo, Sep 19, 2008
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    janko10 Notebook Consultant

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    You're only disabling it during installation... the end result being so you can have switchable graphics :D

    Read the whole guide, it works. The ATI driver is a special driver that is used for the ATI GPU and the Intel GPU.
     
    janko10, Sep 19, 2008
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  7. Mohdoo

    Mohdoo Notebook Guru

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    Hm, how strange. I'm lucky enough to be someone who is well experienced with computers (been a repair tech for the past 3 years), so this shouldn't be too bad. But for the typical user, this seems like way too much to ask of someone. Oh well, more fun for me :D
     
    Mohdoo, Sep 19, 2008
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