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T61 some buttons are not recognized after XP clean install

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:54 pm
by kraf
My T61 had vista basic, which is too slow. So, I did clean install of windows XP pro. Things went smoothly but still Thinkvantage button is not recognized and I get no feedback of volume buttons (you know, green bar that indicates the current volume and mute sign if a mute button is pressed).

Does anybody know how to fix it? I installed a keyboard customizer utility and some others (don't remember..) but it didn't work as I want it to...

Also, when a computer is shut down, often "cmmon32.exe" has to be closed forcefully (a window with 'cmmon32.exe' pops up). Does anyone know why that window come up?

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:01 am
by Redmumba
Download System Update and it'll download everything you need.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... VSU-UPDATE

I installed XP with the software

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:57 am
by kraf
I used system update 3.0 to install XP and it says no update is necessary right now....

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:24 am
by neozengar
you need to manually download rescue and recovery 4.0

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... Q2QAK.html

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:44 am
by GomJabbar
Basically you need the ACPI Power Management driver and the Hotkey utility driver. Make sure you have the Intel Chipset drivers installed as well.

Drivers and software - ThinkPad T61

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:07 am
by Pascal_TTH
Thinkvantage brings Productivity Center where in past Thinkpad it was launching Acces IBM.

You can download Productivity Center here :
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-61378

I found Productivity Center useless so I don't install it... Does some one know a tweak to assign an other action to the Thinkvantage blue key ?

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:55 am
by GomJabbar
Pascal_TTH wrote:Does some one know a tweak to assign an other action to the Thinkvantage blue key ?
Haven't tried it myself. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=41064

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:38 am
by Pascal_TTH
GomJabbar wrote:
Pascal_TTH wrote:Does some one know a tweak to assign an other action to the Thinkvantage blue key ?
Haven't tried it myself. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=41064
Thank you very much ! It runs fine. :D