Some software problem after a fresh XP on a T60p

[festher]

My 2007-83G came with a german OS and i had to install a new XP from scratch and lets just say ive had a good amount of time of getting to know the system. ill list a few things i ran into and fixed but i also have a few things im still working at you might know how to solve.

First thing i ran into was not being able to boot on the XP CD, to fix this enter bios and switch the HDD from "ACHI" mode to "compability" then boot on the XP CD.

Second problem was sound driver. the sound driver is located on lenovo but that driver need some underlying software. to fix this you need some HDA (high defination audio driver) driver. just google this one.

3. bumb on the road is the ATI control center. if you get "CLI.exe" when trying to open the ATI control center its becuase you are missing .net frame 1.1 - i had already installed NHC (Notebook hardware control) which need .Net 2.0 so i didnt think i needed 1.1 - however, 2.0 is not exactly an upgrade so you need both. if the ATI center only show splash screen and then freeze you only have 2.0.

4. bump - and still not fixed. i cannot get my mute, volume and thinkvantage button to work. Im not sure if this is related but my power button is a little weird as well. i can power-on the notebook and if i keep the button pressed down for a few sec it powers off just fine - but in "power management", ive set the one-click-power option to "shutdown" the PC and that dosent work at all.

5. finger print is a little weird, its not always working - cant describe it more clear than that. its like it started out ok and got bad and now it seldom reacts. i think the bios settings is a little confusing. what i really want is the be able to lock the PC completly until finger print is used, then booth all the way to windows without ever using a password - but ive yet to fined the "right" combination in the bios and finger reader software, for this to take place. ive once got it to ask for both finger print and password before booting but thats also the closest i got. havent spend much time on this since ive got a few problems getting it to validate finger prints atm.

6. i wouldnt call my fan noicy but it does need a little tweaking, especialy because the fan is running at 3200 RPM and blowing cold ait out. ive removed NHC to try get fancontrol to work and it does lower the RPM to 2900 which is nice and with my powerplay settings this is fine for keeping my idle V5200 at 56-58c but if i remove the AC, tpfancontrol go crazy, so im still working on this too.

Other than that more or less everything is running fine now but its been 3 long days. i know that next release of NHC comes with fan speedcontrol, that way i wont need fancontrol which atm is conflicting with something when i change from battery to AC even tho i removed NHC, this might be ATI's Powerplay settings..

im a little more concerned with my thinkvantage button which isent doing anything. it does work fine when i want to enter BIOS though

if you have a solution to any of this please let me know thanks.

[GomJabbar]

i cannot get my mute, volume and thinkvantage button to work. Im not sure if this is related but my power button is a little weird as well. i can power-on the notebook and if i keep the button pressed down for a few sec it powers off just fine - but in "power management", ive set the one-click-power option to "shutdown" the PC and that dosent work at all.

im a little more concerned with my thinkvantage button which isent doing anything. it does work fine when i want to enter BIOS though

if you have a solution to any of this please let me know thanks.

On the first item above, you need to install the Hotkey utility from IBM/Lenovo to get the on-screen display for the volume and mute buttons. You probably need to install the Power Management drivers from the page below, and you should install the Intel Chipset drivers.

On the second item, you need to install Access Help online User's Guide.

With a fresh install of Windows, there is no way that I know of to install the Predesktop Area partition and make it active, so the ThinkVantage button cannot be used to access the service partition (Rescue and Recovery) from boot-up. Once in Windows, you can still use it for the Access Help online User's Guide.

You can get both from the following web page:
Software and Device Drivers - ThinkPad T60, T60p

You can also use Software Installer to download and install the above software. Software Installer lets you choose which of the available software packages you wish to install.

[tfflivemb2]

I second the use of the Software Installer. It will guarantee that the drivers are installed in the correct order, thus leaving you with less headaches.

[festher]

Thx gom, my volume mute and thinkvantage are working fine again. still have to look into the power key thing.

Also got my finger print reader to work as i wanted it to, really nice.

About the rescue and recovery partition im not really interested in using it because it will recover a german windows xp. the reseller is shipping me dvd's with english software and english recovery DVDs.

tff, ye also one of the first thing i installed. it did find a good bunch of software but not everything.

I was planning on making a ghost image once done. its nice and easy to recover with just a ghost-cd. is there any easier way to do this using IBM's utils?

dvd burner software, what are you guys using?

[tfflivemb2]

FYI: Sometimes you have to run the Software Installer more than once, because some things need to be installed in a specific order.

[festher]

yea ok.

i have 3 items in the software manager. the intel matrix storage software, it keep halting at 83%, ill just download it manually. then there is a full R&R package, its 1,3GB big... ill pass this one, but it nice its available still and then there is the system migration manager which i think ill pass as well.

[tfflivemb2]

Yeah, you don't have to choose everything. I generally skip the R&R and the Presentation Director programs myself.

[GomJabbar]

And I avoid ThinkVantage Client Security Software like the plague.

Sure, it is welcome and necessary for some users, but I think the average user would be better served without it. IMHO it was wise on IBM's part not to have this already installed, but make it necessary to download to get this "feature".