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Intel Chipset Driver vs Lenovo Chipset Driver?

I'm not sure which one to use for a T61.

The one from Intel is called Version: 8.3.0.1013 which has a date of 8/27/2007 on the download page. But it is the exact same version number that has been their for months. Also if you look at the readme file it has a date of 3/6/2007

The Lenovo chipset driver is called Version: 8.2.0.1012 which has a date of 5/17/2007 on the download page. However, if you click the readme file you will see a date in the upper corner that says 6/15/ 2007.

So if you look at version numbers alone it appears that the Intel chipset driver is the latest. If you look at the dates... well, that's anyones guess.

Which one would you guys recommend for a clean install on a T61?

Use the Lenovo. Much better to use the System OEM's drivers in most cases.

Use the leatest one, OEM always have one rev late in compare to the chip manufacturer...

For most people, it is not good advice to suggest non-Lenovo drivers. Non-Lenovo drivers can work, and they can and *do* fail. Unless you are expert, stick with the Lenovo drivers. Generally, being one revision behind is not a big deal. ... JDH

hi

I doesn't matter at all which driver you use
excapt you have a problem, than i would use the newest
or an older one.
Lenovo doesn't write drivers for its own.
They just take the unified drivers from Intel oder Ati or what ever
and throw everything they don't need thats the reason lenovo driver packages are sometimes mutch smaler than the original once,
but the core is the same!!

cu

I don't think that theory holds up. The Lenovo driver is slightly larger than the Intel driver.

Lenovo-
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-67818

Intel-
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_ ... bmit=Go%21

Sir, regardless of the size of the file and any theories, lenovo releases it's drivers after fully testing, modifying and tweaking them for their machines.

ryengineer wrote:Sir, regardless of the size of the file and any theories, lenovo releases it's drivers after fully testing, modifying and tweaking them for their machines.

Extract the compressed driver and do bit to bit compare with any software same rev from Lenovo and Intel leads to same bytes, same CRC, same signature, and so on. Chipset driver is even Intel signed, not Lenovo signed. The only slightly adapted driver is the graphic one for some mobility features.

The only very specific is the IBM PM driver.