much faster, quicker boot even on a nearly 4 year old W700. I do hate the new "metro" interface for a non touch device but i installed classic shell which works well and gives you back the nice old start menu, but can still use new style if you wish. impressive speeds, stupid decision to remove star...

i have very quick install on w700. after then installing some windows 7 drivers from lenovo all is working well. i selected classic shell to get back start orb and menu

Its working well. I have two devices which I am not sure what software to install to fix it.. PCI Serial Port and PCI Simple communications controller.. Any help would be appreciated. (found it.. intel AMT and related drivers fixed the issue, the win 7 versions worked fine). I have the ViStart progr...

i had this 2 x with a seagate 500gb momentus 7200 rpm drive. both times it seemed that after doing some upgrades (windows, lenovo) all of a sudden, while running odd things happend, like last time it could not find the blue tooth software, even though it was just unpacked, this time Symantec AV said...

I have someone who i just upgraded to Vista SP2. He had and continues to have "hang" issues when docking. Doesn't even boot sometimes. I remember in xp there were hardware profiles, does Vista still have this and can they be deleted and then recreated? any ideas if this does not exist.. please advise

i looked in memoryten and they state 2x2gb for 4gb total, kingston shows 4x4gb total 8gb. anyone know if it really supports 8gb? i have a fellow IT guy in my company that has it running 8gb. just wondered if it is official..

We have a high end W701 but it does not have the wacom digitizer and color sensor. From what Lenovo tells me you need that to do the Pantone color sensor with software. 60Y4938 ** this part number can be purchased and I opened up the W701 (took off the palmrest) and there is the connector on the mot...

have not tried that, its odd i think there might be a problem with the disk controller. on some of the disks i can't even install the toolbox to test it, the drive passed the bios test. not sure how else to test

having issues, using acronis to clone, the 256 (tried 2 different ones both lenovo) one was a samsung and one a toshiba. both seem to slow down when trying to open windows and you can see the hard drive light spinning wildly. can i have 2 bad drives?

We use in both situations in the bay and in the std as an upgraded drive. Never had a problem before, last time i remember an issue was with PATA drives in T43 you'd get a bios issue and have to bypass it with ESC key.

We are having issues with T61p/T60 with new drives from Western Digital and Seagate. they do not seem to work in these models. I have searched and found info that you can use a jumper on 2 pins but that also did not work. Interestingly we found that in Vista 64 on a t61p the system would not see or ...

I never do that. I leave the build on but remove things I don't want or need, access connections, touchpad utility etc. the new builds don't really have a lot of junk. the EE does help in some times such as boot, suspend, resume and hibernate. i only do clean builds when it did not come with win 7. ...

Anyone know if any current / future models with express card 2.0 (gen 2) 34 or 54?. I have a w700 and we also have a x200 we are trying to see if they have.

so the s partition is bigger than it needs to be. i can make it small, but does anyone know what i can remove? there are many directories which appear to be the "vista" partition from the earlier build. There are hidden partitions from win7. Anyone know what can safely be removed from the S partition?

Link to the Phoenix Bios Video: http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/645/2.033/ I thought this was very interesting except it appears that it is a new PC3 bios (not sure what that means). They mention briefly that they "replaced" the bios on the 2 systems they have there. I do have RAID co...

I thought it might be interesting to put all suggestions to speed improvements in Windows 7 in one area. I have Windows 7 64 bit on W700 Quadcore w 4gb ram, 320gb 7200RPM drive. I have these benchmarks: Boot AFTER "starting windows" is 36 seconds (to fingerprint login ) Shutdown 23 seconds Suspend &...

I am running Windows 7 RTM 64 bit. All works very well except every once in a while i get a condition where some processes seem to take over the cpu. Its a quad core so it really should not bog down. I think it has to do with SMC.EXE from Symantec's Endpoint Protection. Even running unmanaged and th...

Update: seems as running a whlie causes same issue. Since its the weekend I did not "sleep" the computer but have the same results. After 18hrs have System Idle @70, taskmgr@10, smc@9 syntpenh@8 and nvPDsvc @3. The system is basically idle at this point but using >20% cpu. not sure why. I am also ru...

I have turned on "run as administrator" for a few apps in win 7, but after trying to remove it, they still ask the question "are you sure you want to run... xyz program. I clicked on any of the icons i have for the app and the box is unchecked for run as admin in compatibility mode so i am not sure ...

Spoke too soon. So I downloaded it and read it, before there were separate installs for x86 and x64, this states its one huge file (odd but oh well) so i downloaded and tried to install it. it shows "searchin for updates" then tells me its not compatible with my computer? have you installed on Windo...

Yes! Thank you so much! I kept looking but must have been too early. Thanks again!

thanks.. so basically the only problem with acronis is loading the actual software, but once i have the latest version on a different computer and build the bootable cd, the structure itself of windows has not changed and will allow me to clone to another device? i have not done it via the boot befo...

I installed the RC tools which worked fine before on the RC, they installed but don't run on the RTM and can't be removed, they suggest removing via the KB article number under uninstall a program or from windows by checking the box in windows components to remove it, neither works. any ideas on rem...

using the port replicator port for sound to external speakers and you get nothing, the front audio out/headphones does work as well as the built in speakers. So far I have the clean Win 7 build and NO lenovo drivers other than the nvidia.

Anyone know what to use for cloning? I want a full image backup and we used Ghost at one point, then switched to acronis true image echo workstation. the latest build installs but Win7 64 bit RTM says it is not compatible. What did they change? the RC ran with a previous version and cloned fine. Any...

the lenovo windows 7 team was able to get me a driver and not i am back with Aero!

Odd that the RC of Win7 loaded a pre release driver but can't find one for RTM. only a thinkpad one will work as I have tried several from Nvidia and they do not support thinkpads. Anyone have any help? The basic issue is no areo.

I have a W700 and have been running the RC since it came out. Now testing the RTM 64 bit Ultimate. Only issue that is a pain right now is there is no suitable Video driver so I can't run Aero, I only get std vga adapter to load. This i find odd because the RC loaded a working driver that was great w...

Anyone having issues with a docked x200s system? sometimes it takes a long time and lots of disk activity to go to sleep and sometimes you get a black screen when trying to come out of sleep and it won't. Any ideas? system has most think utilities removed but drivers are in place.

did the drivers install properly? i have both x301 and w700 and i could not get them installed. they kept saying it wasn't for this os or some similar msg and ended the install process. i use win7 rc with no lenovo install drives, all from win7 and other than those 2 devices its working great. i wil...