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    Windows 7 RC x64, T400 and Sleep

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by BinkNR, May 6, 2009.

  1. BinkNR

    BinkNR Knock off all that evil

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    So I just did a clean install of the latest RC and it shows a good amount of polish over beta—it also, in conjunction with Windows Update, installed all drivers with the exception of the Intel management driver. With the beta, sleep worked, but had its quirks—in the RC, sleep doesn’t work at all. I have not installed any of Lenovo’s existing Vista x64 software, and would like to try to keep it this way for now, but if someone knows the one piece of Lenovo software that addresses this—or a workaround—I’d appreciate hearing about it.

    Cheers.
     
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  2. w500?

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    I just installed the rc and am looking for differences from the beta.

    I'm on a W500, but sleep seems to work fine here. Only problems I have run into in the short time I've played with it has been with the installing the hotkey driver, and switchable graphics is still not functional.

    edited to add I'm using x64
     
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    Was this a clean install? Did sleep work “out of the box” or did you have to install something from Lenovo to get it to work?
     
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    Yep clean install with new drivers dl'ed from Lenovo the day before, and it works fine so far, but again I haven't had a lot of time to test it out yet. The only other app I put on so far is Power Manager to manage battery charge thresholds.

    What kind of problems are you having? Maybe it has to do with the Intel driver you said you left out :confused:
     
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    sleep works for me bink. i'm running t400 x64 RC.

    i do have brightness issues related to sleep though. and none of lenovos drivers were necessary since none solved these issues. the clean install functionality is identical to that with various vista drivers installed.
     
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    Yea, I haven’t put anything Lenovo on it yet. I’m not having any issues, outside of sleep, though I doubt it related to the Intel driver.
     
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    Were you able to sleep prior to installing Lenovo drivers or anything Lenovo? I’m glad to hear yours sleeps—so I should be able to get mine to.
     
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    i'm not 100% sure sleep worked, but as i recall, i ran some tests before installing any drivers to compare changes and everything was the same.
     
    MaX PL, May 6, 2009
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