T43, Vista Ultimate, Sound and Biometric

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winpitt · #1 Post by **winpitt** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:16 pm

OK, MSDN Vista Ultimate install went quite well - and actually pretty fast. T43 (not T43p) w/2GB ram. However, still have following issues:

Sound just plain doesn't work. Tried the MS drivers - installed fine but no sound. Tried the XPPro Lenovo stuff, no joy. The Lenovo Vista Beta site says to use the MS drivers. Anybody have any luck? Can't see anyone having run Vista Ultimate mentioning this.

Lenovo says biometric available from MS Update. Not true that I can find.

Other than that, easy install, Vista performs very snappy and smooth. Haven't gotten to hotkeys, etc yet.

hkelley · #2 Post by **hkelley** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:12 pm

No problem with Vista Ultimate and audio drivers that come with it for the T43. MS drivers working fine first time. To my knowledge there are no biometric drivers from Lenovo or MS yet despite what Lenovo says on their Vista driver site.

winpitt · #3 Post by **winpitt** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:31 pm

Interesting. I'll wipe and reload Vista Ultimate. Is your image an MSDN image?

I'd appreciate any steps you took. All I did was the base image, loaded the trusted and ultranav sw from lenovo. 1.28 BIOS and 1.05 embedded controller

hkelley · #4 Post by **hkelley** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:35 pm

I am running RC1. I did a clean install and it worked first time on my T43. I have since loaded other Lenovo drivers.

winpitt · #5 Post by **winpitt** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:00 pm

Oh, big difference between latest MSDN GA release and RC1. I guess I'm still looking for somebody having loaded this release.

I just reloaded. Not having loaded any Lenovo stuff, device manager shows 4 "other" devices. Biometric, Multimedia Audio, and 2 unknown. No sound capability whatsoever. Second time this happened so I'm sure this is what will happen now.

Now I can right click on Multimedia Audio and select update driver, and then search automatically. When I do that, it says it can't find one (online). Did it again and it said "Installing driver software" though it doesn't say where it's getting it. It installed SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio. However, though everything "looks" OK, nothing works. No error messages. When trying to play a test sound it says "The devices is being used by another application....." If you continue it simply says "Error! Failed to play test tone".

The XP Lenovo version will not install either. It generates a dll error and even if you blow by the warnings, it won't work.

It appears as though the production Vista release (that's what this is - production) has changed and Lenovo has not recognized that it has changed.

RUSH2112 · #6 Post by **RUSH2112** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:07 pm

I'm having the same problem on my X60s. No sound. Nothing. Not out of the system speakers or external speakers. Gaaah. I'll take the last suggestion and try the XP drivers.

And off to lenovo.com he goes...

winpitt · #7 Post by **winpitt** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:52 pm

RUSH2112 wrote:I'm having the same problem on my X60s. No sound. Nothing. Not out of the system speakers or external speakers. Gaaah. I'll take the last suggestion and try the XP drivers.

And off to lenovo.com he goes...

Be a little careful. On one of my installs I did that. Because Vista didn't recognize the software as being legit, the result was that you could not remove the Lenovo Soundmax audio (for xp) once you installed it. My solution was to reimage the machine again. I'd definitely create a restore point prior to installing.

T43, Vista Ultimate, Sound and Biometric

T43, Vista Ultimate, Sound and Biometric

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