Installed new video driver, got blue screen of death

[ark]

Thinkpad Update said that there was a new video driver available, so I told it to go ahead and install it. When I restarted the machine, I got a blue screen of death.

Fortunately, when I asked for the last known good configuration on the next restart, the machine came back up. However, it seems clear that Thinkpad Update steered me to an inappropriate video driver.

I believe that http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 62841.html is the correct driver for my machine. Fortunately, installing that driver by hand seems to have solved the problem.

[damorg]

This happened to me as well.

T60, 2613CTO

Software updater reports that package 8.383.1.1.3-070621a2-050878C-Lenovo while the linked page reports 8.383.1.1.3-070621a2-0508

Not sure what the difference is but it's clear that the former from the software installer gave my T60 indigestion (the blue screen noted an ati-something-or-other file)

Dan

[Pascal_TTH]

I run those drivers with any issue. I only install the driver itself, not the Catalyst Control Center.

[WVZR1]

Me too! My display just went "CRAZY" and I didn't revert back to last "known good" but just elected to roll-back driver in the device manager since the only error I seemed to get was "The driver etc is not applicable to your OS etc etc.

Do/should I want to uninstall the CCC and use the newer driver that the machine rejected the first time? I ran the update manager after I rolled it back and sure enough it mentions a new driver and CCC for the X1300 and my machine again/still!

I'm certainly open for suggestions.