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Hi, I wanted to do a fresh install on my T60 after installing all kinds of crap on it.

I've followed through many threads and tutorials about how to install it right. But no luck, I created a XP Pro CD (no cd comes along when purchase) and try to use that to install, but everytime after all the window files were loaded and ask me which partition I would like to install windows on, it shutdowns. And I tried it with another XP Pro CD that works fine on my brother's computer. It shutdown again. Hopefully someone knows how to fix this. Thanks.

I've done the following:

-installed intel matrix storage manager driver (checked it a couple times that the Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controllerdriver says it's installed with iaStor.sys

-Serial ATA (Sata) is set to AHCL

-Change the Secured Recovery Drive Option to "Normal" from "Secure"

Correct me if I need anything else before installation

mm, you are booting from the disc., right?

i hope you aren't on windows, then popping the cd in, and running from autorun options.

no I reboot with the XPCD

try this.

start your comp, hit del so you go into BIOS, make sure to set the boot device to your Cd drive.

restart your computer, and if you did this right it should say
"press any key to boot from cd"

then, try from there.

paool, it's not like my first time installing windows, i was doing that all the time, boot from cd rom to install windows

Speaking in a general sense, I have seen problems with memory (RAM) crop up when installing an OS, where such problems were not apparent once the OS was installed. Try running memory testing software for a period of time and see how it checks out. You also might want to boot up a PC Doctor for DOS CD and run the hardware tests on it. One final thing you could try is to zero-out (low level format) the hard drive. See following links for doing all the above.

http://www.memtest.org/

PC Doctor for DOS bootable CD - ThinkPad

Hard drive tools:
Hitachi Drive Fitness Test

Fujitsu Diagnostic Tool and Erase Utility

Samsung HUTIL

Just to cover all the bases, you are using the following Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver, correct? The installation instructions are also on the following page.
Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver for Windows 2000, XP, Vista (32bit) - ThinkPad Reserve Edition, R60, R60e, R61, R61e, T60, T60p, T61, T61p, X60, X60s, X60 Tablet, X61, X61s, X61 Tablet, Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t

Thanks. GomJabbar. I will try the following.

Yes, I followed through the instruction for XP installation on the page you posted.

So I read more threads and decide to give it a try again before I go off and burn a PC Doc CD. I switch it to Single Core even I have a SP2 slipstream CD and switch the mode to "compatibility". And it worked!!! computer does not shutdown anymore. I am not sure what does the trick, but I think "compatibility" sound more likely.

I had some trouble when I want to switch it back to "AHCI" mode though. But I am able to workaround it by uninstalling the driver of the IDE, then restart, change to "AHCI" then Windows says find new hardware and I do a driver update in my IMSM drivers folder (from intel matrix driver).

And everything is good except it takes much longer to boot now, it kinda hold at the lenovo screen, I wonder if it's the BIOS update.

I too have had this issue. WHen i reinstall Windows from a retail disk, i have on occassion had the machine seem like it was doing one of the dew reboots during install, and it shuts down rather than reboots. not sure why, but i just reinstall again and it usually works.

GomJabbar wrote: Just to cover all the bases, you are using the following Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver, correct? The installation instructions are also on the following page.
Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver for Windows 2000, XP, Vista (32bit) - ThinkPad Reserve Edition, R60, R60e, R61, R61e, T60, T60p, T61, T61p, X60, X60s, X60 Tablet, X61, X61s, X61 Tablet, Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t

thanks GomJabbar.

I just came across your post via search for "intel matrix 2000 t60".

I had searched the Lenovo site, but could only find the newest XP only version...all the prior 5xxxx files were gone, and no links to them.

Your link is to the XP only version, but just down the page a bit, there's a notice about win2000 and a link for a prior version.

Not sure if you're link is to a different page than I'd found before; or if Lenovo changed the page to add that link to 2000 version...but in any case, thanks for such a 'complete' post.

whups...maybe I celebrated too soon...

Running the exe from that link unpacks it into the DRIVERS directory. In the new subfolders, there is a readme.txt.

That readme says near the beginning that 2000 is NOT supported.

However, paging down a bit into the actual instructions, it DOES say things like "in 2000, do this...".

Nevertheless, the instructions say to run the setup.exe and follow the instrucitons.

No setup.exe is present in the unpacked files.

sigh...

dozer wrote:snip.....No setup.exe is present in the unpacked files....snip

In old era of computing there were not many .exe setups to run.

You need to go to device manager and update the drivers manually for IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. (assuming you've already installed Windows 2000 without these drivers)

hi Ry,

Thanks for your note.

Having gotten my start in computers by keying the bootloader, in octal, into the front-panels of DEC PDP-11/45's in the 1970's...I'm painfully familiar with the old ways of getting a machine to where it can read a disk...

So you're saying to use dev-manager and just point it to the inf file in that directory?

Sure wish Lenovo would straighten out its txt files...

Well, I'll give it a try....if ya never hear from me again, you'll know it's gone wrong...

well, that didn't work....sigh...

The 'unknown device' in dev-mgr is indeed the AHCI SATA controller (GBM chip on this t60p), but it doesn't like that .inf file.

The download exe created drivers\win\IMSM...and within that, a \PREPARE subfolder.

I also tried running the 'install.cmd' from that prepare folder first, but still no joy on the iaahci.inf working. I didn't get a 'restart now' msg after running that cmd....and I didn't reboot before trying the .inf again...but I might do that later.

In the meantime, does anyone have a copy of the proper 5xxx filename driver download file that used to be on the Lenovo site?

Again, this would be the SATA driver for windows 2000, for a T60p.

thanks much!

Richard

Try the following:

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager.

well, that didn't work...sigh....

that's starting to sound familiar!

Thanks for that link Ry.

Looked like the exact right program. I dl'ed it, started the install...but it quit immediately...saying "incompatible hardware".

The readme.txt does list the GBM version chip in the T60p as supported by that program...

....but after it failed, I re-read the readme...and was quite surprised to finally notice that it says system 'must' have a P4 cpu...or xeon.

I don't think I've ever seen a mass-storage driver that specifies a cpu-type !

In any case, it won't run, and as usual, the coders wrote totally useless error pop-ups....doesn't specify WHAT is incompatible.

I'll go back to searching I suppose....but if anyone here has the Intel Matrix Storage Manager that USED to be on Lenovo's site, please PM me !

That would be the 5xxxx.exe file. The one on there currently (7xxxxx.exe) does NOT support windows 2000.

thanks!