Win7 on T61: issue with TPFancontrol & OSD

[agarza]

I can't get to show the window of the TPFancontrol even though I installed it as a service, it doesn't appear on the notification area.

Even when I got it to work it activates/deactivates the fan on 5 sec intervals. There was so easy setting up the service with version 0.17 of Fancontrol on XP. I like "Vista 7" but would really like the fan control functionality.

Did anyone was able to install Onscreen display. I get an error regarding a server I dunno.

[Marin85]

I haven´t tried to install tpfancontrol on Win 7 yet, but OSD works for me without problems. Maybe as a side note: I found out that the Power Management driver is needed to make hotkey/onscreen display work.

[GomJabbar]

I have a T42. The Lenovo PM driver was installed by W7b on the first W7b update. I installed the Lenovo System Interface driver for Vista and the Hotkey driver for Vista, and the on screen display works fine here. Haven't tried TPFC.

[mattbiernat]

i got my tpfancontrol to work with 7. i didn't install it as a service but just as a regular aplication that loads at start up. maybe the icon is hidden?

[agarza]

I installed in this order:
1. Lenovo System Interface Driver
2. Thinkpad Power Management Driver 1.52
3. Hotkey driver (OSD + FullScreen Magnifier)

when installing OSD a pop up window appears:


Don't know what else to do. I'm using the latest version of the Hotkey driver from Lenovo's site.

Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. As a side not I did not installed the chipset drivers I'm not sure if this would be the cause

[GomJabbar]

IIRC, I got that error with the UltraNav driver, but it seems to work ok. I can't remember if I got that with the Hotkey driver or not, but the onsceen display and magnification work fine.

[agarza]

Which hotkey driver version Tom did you installed?

[GomJabbar]

Hotkey driver for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 - Notebooks
7zvu08ww.exe
Version: 2.10.0002
Release Date: 2009/01/05

[agarza]

I just installed an older version, the same error pop up but rebooted. Now it shows after restart.
Wonder why the volume display on XP range from 0-25 while on Vista/7 goes to 0-50.

[Xenomorph]

I installed in this order:
1. Lenovo System Interface Driver
2. Thinkpad Power Management Driver 1.52
3. Hotkey driver (OSD + FullScreen Magnifier)

when installing OSD a pop up window appears:


Don't know what else to do. I'm using the latest version of the Hotkey driver from Lenovo's site.

Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. As a side not I did not installed the chipset drivers I'm not sure if this would be the cause

The HotKey driver gives that error because it fails to add the extension to display properties to enable/disable on-screen display. The location in the registry has different permissions compared to Vista.

You can ignore that error, as the HotKey driver still gets installed.
I wasn't sure how to toggle the onscreen display with Win7, so I just use MSConfig to disable/enable the "TPOSDSVC.exe" startup program.