T500 questions

Hi everyone,

I'm new here, I just got my T500 elite last night - I love it already! I upgraded from a T42 that died recently...I was excited to move up in the world.

Couple questions to start:

1 - I got Vista Ultimate with the XP pro downgrade, thinking that Vista would come preinstalled (my brother's T61p came that way) but it came with XP preloaded. So I did the recovery thing to get Vista on, everything running smoothly, but there are 2 extra harddrive partitions on my comp now - do they have to stay there, or what can I do about them?

2 - I'm trying to install Symantic Endpoint 11, but the install never gets all the way through, as I get a C+ runtime error that won't go away. I've read that I need to uninstall the ThinkVantage Client Secuirty Services to make this work, but I wanted to confirm that before actually doing so (I don't really care about the security services thing, but i want to make sure this will actually work before doing it.)

3 - How's this lappy for gaming? I have the T9400 core2 duo, 2gb DDR3, and the 3650 radeon and the 7200 rpm HDD - can I run Crysis on this (i dont care about the flashy's, i just want to play the game...)

Thanks everyone!

 

did u recover vista by using thinkvantage recovery or by using installation dvd? the reason i ask is that i got the same exact vista downgrade to xp(by accident), but i did not experiment like u did. i assumed that the recovery partition contains xp.

gaming is fine on this laptop. what resolution did you get? i did not try crysis, but left4dead works with all high settings at resolution lower than my native. i am assuming that crysis works fine as long u stay to lower resolutions.

 

I used the recovery DVD's like the paperwork said to do...does that make a difference?

I got the WXGA screen - I am using an external 22" LG monitor that does up to 1600x1050.

 

are the recovery dvds you mention here, 2 dvds and 1 cds you burnt when you get new machine? or did u get pair of vista recovery discs directly from lenovo? is it 32 bit or 64 bit inside?


is the WXGA LED?

 

The notebook came with 3 cds - a boot disk, the Vista OS disk, and the driver disk. I didn't have to burn anything.

I have the WXGA CCFL - the standard display for the t500 elite.

 

There are two ways to do things-the lenovo way and the way the rest of the world would do it. That is even true because the overarching goal of lenovo is to get a working generable system out of it. Thats it.
There is another kind of geneble partition which is going to depend on back ups and no generable petition which is installed by you. So you save about 10 gigs and the extrnaneous partitions.
Renee