T60 Problems

I received my T60 and must say that I was shocked at the amount of bloatware that was on it. I immediately reformated but before i could do that, i disabled the pre-desktop and switched my hd to compatability mode from ACPI mode. Now it wont allow me to switch back (if i do, i get a blue screen on windows boot). am i loosing performance by not using that? why can't that work?

also, after installing my ati video card drivers i get this error:

how can i resolve this?

 

You're not going to like this answer, but the way I solved the "bloatware problem" was to buy more RAM. Unlike the bloatware on consumer laptops, I sort of like the ThinkPad bloatware. You may miss some of it.

You may be a guru, so I won't include you in this comment (though I certainly include myself): People probably destabilize their systems a lot by trying to streamline them and make them faster. When noobs like me reads this stuff and try it, it leads to sorrow.

Chris

 

Although I would agree that some of the pre-installed s/w fits my personal definition of bloatware as well, I have found some of it to be quite useful. Have you tried using the ThinkVantage Software Installer or System Update 2.0?

It will list what Lenovo drivers and support s/w versions you have installed for EVERYTHING and if updates are available. You have the option of then selecting which drivers and support s/w (if any) to install/update. I believe you can even uninstall what you deem to be support s/w bloatware.

Maybe this could help with your ATI problem.

Edit - it can update your BIOS as well

 

I'm running a 2 gHZ T2500 with 2 gigs of ram and a 100 gig 7200 rpm hard drive. Some of that software was seriously annoying me, thats why i got rid of it. I used the software installed (which is what put that ati driver on my pc and subsequently gave me the error posted above) and i've installed a lot of it but things like the message center, thinkvantage access connections (without wireless drivers), away manager, client security solution, fingerprint software, rescue and recovery, and system migration assistant i could do without. i'd rather type my password then scan the finger since it is faster, and the rescue and recovery kept asking me if i wanted to backup my hd even though i image my d partition (school stuff, music, etc) onto an external hard drive nightly

 

I work for a large company and all we do is deploy T60's right now. You need .Net 1.1

Besides, on the ATI site it tells you that the new Catalyst requires .Net 1.1

Took us a while to figure out.

 

downloading net 1.1 and 2 right now...

besides these minor issues, this system is byfar the best ive ever used

 

There should also be no loss of performance from running in Compatibility mode. It is just how the OS addresses the SATA drive. INT80

 

thanks a lot Mbaran

 

ok so i loaded .net and i didnt get the error...but i cannot launch the actual program...what gives?

 

Which actual program can't you launch?

 

ATI's Catalyst Control Center under the start menu

 

try re-installing it now that you have .NET installed.

 

as for your hd problem. Let me explain, running a hard drive in compatibility mode or ahci mode requires different drivers. These drivers are essential and totally intergrated into the system, so you can't simply upgrade this driver. You can only change it during install, windows default installs the compatibility driver(simple ide) so you can't boot windows with ahci mode.