New video driver?

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New video driver?

#1 Post by ark » Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:56 am

Am I hallucinating?

I ran System Update recently and it told me that there was a new video driver for my T60p, so I installed it. The next time I took the machine off standby, I got a blue screen, so I reinstalled the previous version.

Then I looked at the device driver file matrix and found that the most recent version was from September 2007, which was the one I had just reinstalled. And running System Update again did not mention a new driver.

Did Lenovo release a new driver and then recall it? Am I missing something obvious?
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#2 Post by thormdac » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:48 am

Havin wanted to watch a .flv video and various others last week, I noticed a constant flickering of the view when enlarging WMP11 to full view.
At first I thought it was due to them converters---hous later I gave them "uptodate"-drivers :evil: a skip and went on to using the modded ones from:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/ind ... opic=16682

Now, I am all cinema again!

driver version: nVIDIA ForceWare X 169.28 for Windows XP/2K 32bit
X300 / 6478-15G
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/ T60 / 2007-FVG / 2GB / 100GB / XP prof

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#3 Post by Pocket Aces » Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:21 pm

The driver matrix tends to have old drivers. Check the "Downloads and drivers" section to get the latest drivers.
T42p - Pentium M 1.8Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB 7200 RPM, ATI Mobility FireGL T2 128MB
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#4 Post by ark » Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:32 pm

Thanks for the pointer. That's a bit surprising, actually; one would think that the matrix would be updated automatically.
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#5 Post by pae77 » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:11 pm

:thumbs-UP: nVIDIA ForceWare X 169.28 for Windows except I'm using the Vista x64 bit version. Better than the Lenovo driver and so far no problems experienced after several weeks.
HP DV8t | Intel i7-Q 720 | 6GB (DDR3 1333) RAM | 1 TB (500GB Seagate 7200 rpm x2)| GeForce GT 230M (1GB) | 18.4" FHD | SuperMulti 8X w Lightscribe | FP Reader | Bluetooth | HDTV Tuner | Win 7 Ultimate x64. Backup: T61p (8891-CTO)

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