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    X220 - Cannot get On-Screen Display working

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Josh784, Jun 11, 2011.

  1. Josh784

    Josh784 Notebook Guru

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    My X220 arrived recently and I went about installing my Intel 310 series 80GB HDD along with 8GB of RAM. I wanted a fresh install, so I loaded the Windows 7 x64 ISO on a flash drive and went about doing a fresh install on my mSATA drive. Note for other users doing the same: make sure to format the original HDD and delete the system partition. This way you don't have to remove any hard drives when installing. If you leave the original drive untouched, I believe Windows will automatically use the system partition from the original drive rather than creating a new one on the solid state drive. It will still install to the SSD, but the small partition used for the boot sequence, etc, will remain on the original HDD.

    Anyway, on to my question. With a fresh install up and running booting off the mSATA drive, I installed Lenovo's wired and wireless LAN drivers then let Windows update do its thing until it was satisfied. I next downloaded the relevant drivers from Lenovo, but have been unable to get the on-screen display to work for volume and brightness.

    I have installed the Lenovo video drivers as well as their power management drivers and software. I also installed the on-screen display driver, but it is not functional. The volume and brightness buttons/hotkeys work, but the current setting does not pop up on screen during adjustment as it should. I have attempted to uninstall the On Screen Display driver, clean the registry with CCleaner, restart and reinstall, but this has not fixed the problem.

    I'm curious if anyone else has run into this issue and found a solution.
     
    Josh784, Jun 11, 2011
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    GomJabbar Notebook Consultant

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    Have you installed the Hotkey Features driver?

    Have you looked in Display Properties to see if the OSD is enabled?
     
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    Yes, I believe the On Screen Display driver I referred to is what Lenovo calls the Hotkeys driver. I have also checked display properties to make sure OSD is enabled. Thanks for the suggestions.
     
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    Well I tried resinstalling the hotkeys driver for a third time and it appears to have broken the driver for my fingerprint reader.

    Lenovo's driver download center is terrible. They display multiple files for each driver and usually the only differentiating factor is x86 or x64. For all the x64 drivers, there is no description to distinguish between drivers of the same type.

    I think I'm looking at another fresh install and might just have to live without the on screen display.
     
    Josh784, Jun 11, 2011
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