T43 to work with Vista!

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DIGITALgimpus · #1 Post by **DIGITALgimpus** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:06 pm

At least according to this article

Other requirements included a SATA or 7200 rpm EIDE hard drive. For Vista on notebooks, Microsoft recommended the Acer Ferrari 3400, the Acer Ferrari 4000, the HP Pavillion zd8230, the IBM Thinkpad T43 and the Toshiba Tecra M4.

Getting those non-IBM 7200 RPM drives (fixing the 2010 error) is important.

Great to see this beast will be recommended for yet another os!

smek · #2 Post by **smek** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:43 pm

What kind of t43, would that mean the ones with GMA 900 will work with Vista.

dino · #3 Post by **dino** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:10 pm

From intel

2005 Intel SIPP Laptop PCs: Laptops based on the Mobile Intel® 915GM Express Chipset, which launched in January 2005, provide breakthrough mobile performance, great battery life, integrated WiFi capability and thinner, lighter form factors. After the launch of Windows Vista, laptop PCs with Mobile Intel® 915GM Express Chipset will be able to run Windows Vista providing a Windows* XP-comparable graphics experience. On newly shipping systems with Mobile Intel® 915PM Express Chipset platforms, additional functionality, including support for the Windows Vista Display Driver Model, may be available with certain 3rd party graphics cards. Please contact your graphics or PC vendor for additional information.

WilsonF · #4 Post by **WilsonF** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:29 pm

Vista works fine with all the hardware (except possibly the security chip - not sure yet) on a T43 with a 5400 rpm drive, 1GB RAM and the ATI X800 dispaly adapter. It also works fine with a T42p ditto except for display (the T42p has a ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2).

DIGITALgimpus · #5 Post by **DIGITALgimpus** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:02 pm

I just particularly like seeing them point out the T43... makes me feel extra good

dino · #6 Post by **dino** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:08 pm

DIGITALgimpus wrote:I just particularly like seeing them point out the T43... makes me feel extra good

I should have been clearer on my previous post. Vista will run on older
computers but you may not be able to use the Aero interface. To run Aero,
you need a GPU that supports Windows Display Driver Model. It appears the
x300 does but GMA 900 does not so saying that any T43 can run Vista is a bit
misleading because some T43(GMA 900) will only be able to run it in the "classic xp" mode.

You can read more on the hardware guide here.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/window ... fault.mspx

amensi · #7 Post by **amensi** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:44 pm

DIGITALgimpus wrote:At least according to this article

Other requirements included a SATA or 7200 rpm EIDE hard drive. For Vista on notebooks, Microsoft recommended the Acer Ferrari 3400, the Acer Ferrari 4000, the HP Pavillion zd8230, the IBM Thinkpad T43 and the Toshiba Tecra M4.
Getting those non-IBM 7200 RPM drives (fixing the 2010 error) is important.

Great to see this beast will be recommended for yet another os!

Can someone tell me what causes the 2010 error... I am not getting it here and i have a 7200RPM and my pad is fully updated ??

#8 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:31 pm

amensi wrote:Can someone tell me what causes the 2010 error... I am not getting it here and i have a 7200RPM and my pad is fully updated ??

POST warning message 2010 after BIOS upgrade or hard drive installation - ThinkPad General

highgrovemanor · #9 Post by **highgrovemanor** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:24 am

Any hints on how to enable Aero mode? I'm just getting around to installing Vista beta 2 and Longhorn Server beta 1....I'll be vm'ing on my T43 for now, but do have a full desktop install with a nice 3D card.

dino wrote:
DIGITALgimpus wrote:I just particularly like seeing them point out the T43... makes me feel extra good
I should have been clearer on my previous post. Vista will run on older
computers but you may not be able to use the Aero interface. To run Aero,
you need a GPU that supports Windows Display Driver Model. It appears the
x300 does but GMA 900 does not so saying that any T43 can run Vista is a bit
misleading because some T43(GMA 900) will only be able to run it in the "classic xp" mode.

You can read more on the hardware guide here.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/window ... fault.mspx

hootpie · #10 Post by **hootpie** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:32 am

What about the T42's with Radeon 9600's?

dino · #11 Post by **dino** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:10 am

highgrovemanor wrote:Any hints on how to enable Aero mode? I'm just getting around to installing Vista beta 2 and Longhorn Server beta 1....I'll be vm'ing on my T43 for now, but do have a full desktop install with a nice 3D card.

Is vista beta 2 out?

dino · #12 Post by **dino** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:14 am

hootpie wrote:What about the T42's with Radeon 9600's?

According to ATI site these are supported.
* Mobility™ Radeon® X300 Series or higher
* Mobility™ Radeon® 9500 Series or higher
* FireGL™ V5000 (RV410GL) Series or higher
* FireGL™ V3100 Series or higher
* FireGL™ T2-128 Series or higher

atha · #13 Post by **atha** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:51 am

dino wrote:According to ATI site these are supported.
...
* FireGL™ T2-128 Series or higher

The list is a bit confusing. The summary list says like that, but there's also Mobility FireGL 9000 and 7800 in the complete mobile radeon list, that support windows vista display driver model. DirectX 9 hardware support has been mentioned in many places, and that is not supported in FireGL 9000.

We'll see. First thing I'd do is to strip all the extra eye candy off anyway

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