Thinkpads Forum

Yeah!

T5600, 2 GB RAM, 14" SXGA+, X1400, Windows XP SP3. Seems to be in perfect physical condition. Like the hardware and the form factor very much.

Question: The HD is newly formated and the drivers seem to be old. Figured out how to get a new mouse driver to get trackpad scrolling working in Firefox, but the other drivers are probably old as well. So should I get new ones or is all good as long as I don´t run into any problems?


(I´m new to PCs.)

Congratulations!
Your Thinkpad will run best if Thinkpad-specific drivers are loaded where applicable. One of the nicest pieces of software from IBM/Lenovo is "ThinkVantage System Update", which will find the drivers a Thinkpad needs and asks permission to install them. It is the most convenient way to update Thinkpad-specific drivers and software. Here it is -- install it and enjoy:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloa ... MIGR-66956

That's a great tool but in my experience it doesn't find all the missing drivers (in this case it didn't install the Intel LAN driver).
Personally I'm a fan of installing the latest available drivers. To be sure I install the most important drivers like WLAN en video drivers manually.

I subscribe to the theory if it's working, why mess with it. Congrats on the T60. It's a fine machine.

Thanks guys.

I downloaded and ran the System Update program, and installed a fair bit of the drivers it found. It fixed some graphic anomalies in the ThinkVantage apps and nothing seems to be broken, so I guess all is well.

Question: The harddrive is spinning all the time. A quiet whirr plus around 5 small tocs on average over a period of ten seconds. I would prefer if it settled down, but maybe it´s doing something useful? This happens even while the CPU is idling, when no program seem to do much. I set it to shut down after 3 minutes - didn´t change anything.

Edit: By the way, what can one expect of the fans in a T60? I would love if I could keep the fans completely silent when writing or doing light browsing, can this be achieved? Currently they spin up every now and then.

When you say the harddrive makes "5 small tocs", do you mean the harddrive is making clicking noises? Hopefully that's not what you mean, since that's usually a sign that your harddrive is about to fail...

No worries. I´m sure it´s not about to fail, it makes very normal hard drive sounds, of the kind most hard drives make if you write to or read from them.