Hmmm... it looked as though the driver installed, but, after restarting, there's no hint of anywhere. I guess it's time for "if it ain't broke..." [/smile]

Interestin'... the driver's (still!!!) downloading as we "speak". The server seems to be painfully slow tonight.

BTW, much to my surprise, last night we didn't break our short-term record of -6F. But it's still darn cold out and I'm resisting taking the trash tipster out tonight. Brrrr!

OK, I can see the issue about "latest & greatest". What is the Catalyst Control Center?

FWIW, the updates brought the machine up to 8.561.0.0 - 1 Dec 08, which is newer than the driver in 79d533ww.exe (8.3nnn.n.n from 2007 - I forget the particulars).

Er, driver from Vista? I'm just wrapping up doing MS' updates, including one (or more? I forget) for the ATI X1400. Am I missing something going that route?

I had a chat, with a friend, about this problem. His take on this problem is the dead battery probably pulled voltages in the machine down to the point where things got wonky. Makes sense to me...

The good news is the T60 is now up and running. The only problems are seeing are the usual BS from Mickeysoft and dealing with a video card that has no clue about 3D. BTW, I assume there's zero point zero chance of fixing that? Sure would be nice to just pop one board and put in another. But having ...

At the risk of jinxing myself, pulling the battery at least let me work with a live Ubuntu image far longer than I've been able to so far. Now let's see if Win7 will load fully... [/crosses fingers] At this point I'm much further than ever before. BTW, good luck coping with the cold! However chilly ...

Deader than Julius Caesar. I have a replacement on order (due Tue.??). Meanwhile I'm using a stock 110VAC "brick" into the docking station.

Aside from risking bricking the T60 if I were to update the BIOS (now 2.2.3), does the battery matter that much for plug-in use?

I think I'm necro-posting but I'll take a shot someone's still watching. I have a T60 2007-BTS with the same ATI X1400 GPU. Long story short, anything involving more than text causes the machine to apparently freeze. I've tried Win7 (32-bit) and I've tried openSUSE (live and install) and Ubuntu (liv...