Drivers and Information for running Vista on Thinkpads

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arni · #1 Post by **arni** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:44 am

Since there are quite some threads in the forum with links to drivers for thinkpads running windows vista and information here and there i thought it will be nice to have it all summed up.

So for those of you who are interested in running vista on thinkpads:

1. Drivers and BIOS upgrades
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... BETA-VISTA
Also avaiable from this site: Power Manager, Presentation Director and Productivity Center

And also look at the general support & download page for your specific machine as Lenovo already released some final drivers out of beta.

2. Thinkvantage
Active Protection System http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-67040
Access Connections (thanks to hkelley) http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... TVAN-EAPAC
Rescue & Recovery (thanks to SGD) http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... VAN-EAPRNR
Client Security Solution (thanks to SGD) http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-66953
Fingerprint Software (thanks to SGD) http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-66948

3. Some links which aren't TP specific but maybe interesting when moving/upgrading to vista:
Windows Vista hardware compatibility list https://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Default.aspx
Windows Vista software compatibility wiki (unoffical) http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/W ... ility_List
Some TP might start slower on vista than other brands laptops MSKB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929191

If someone finds some other useful information please feel free to continue this thread.

SGD · #2 Post by **SGD** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:48 am

System Update: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-66956 with documentation: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-66957

System Migration Assistant: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-66945 with documentation: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-66944, http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-66943

A better link to Client Security Solution 8: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... VAN-EAPCSS

noetus · #3 Post by **noetus** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:52 pm

This is really helpful posting, thanks. Lenovo only give info/downloads for T43/p, any information about which of the programs/drivers can also be used for earlier versions of T4x models?

SGD · #4 Post by **SGD** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:53 am

noetus wrote:which of the programs/drivers can also be used for earlier versions of T4x models?

According to the table in http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/microsoft/vist ... ended.html, Lenovo does not consider T42 as "Windows Vista Capable". I would expect that no Lenovo Vista drivers support T42 and earlier models officially. However, you may try to run the drivers for later models.

noetus · #5 Post by **noetus** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:40 pm

SGD wrote:According to the table in http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/microsoft/vist ... ended.html, Lenovo does not consider T42 as "Windows Vista Capable".

That's incredibly annoying. When Lenovo was IBM they would release drivers for earlier versions of Windows that came out after the model in question if those models were able to run those OSes... saying that the T42 is not Vista capable seems like a cost-cutting way of avoiding supplying support just because Vista happened to be released *after* the T42. This gets my goat, it really does

noetus · #6 Post by **noetus** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:46 pm

I meant "later version of Windows" of course.. incidentally, according to Lenovo themselves:

"Note: A Windows Vista Capable PC includes at least:

* A modern processor (at least 800MHz nominal operational processor frequency for the device)
* 512MB of system memory
* A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable."

Since when does the T42 not qualify?

Melvyn · #7 Post by **Melvyn** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:07 pm

Well, I have something to add here.

noetus wrote:I meant "later version of Windows" of course.. incidentally, according to Lenovo themselves:

"Note: A Windows Vista Capable PC includes at least:

* A modern processor (at least 800MHz nominal operational processor frequency for the device)
* 512MB of system memory
* A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable."

Since when does the T42 not qualify?

My T42 is full vista premiun. According to MS/IBM it don't qualify, but read my review at http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=35978

Just my 3 cents.

noetus · #8 Post by **noetus** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:24 pm

Melvyn wrote:My T42 is full vista premiun. According to MS/IBM it don't qualify, but read my review at http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=35978

Just my 3 cents.

That is very similar to my Thinkpad, also a T42 with the same graphics card and 2GB RAM and Vista Ultimate works great on it. I just don't understand why Lenovo/IBM etc are saying on one hand that it doesn't qualify, while according to their generic criteria (as listed above) it clearly does.

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