I just installed Windows 7 Pro 32-bit on my old IBM/Lenovo T60p and everything is great except for my video card driver... Even though I've downloaded and installed the Windows 7 drivers from Lenovo's website, windows insists on using the standard VGA graphics adapter and wont let me change to the ATI drivers. As a result, I only have access to 16Mb of graphics memory and can't run any of my more graphics-intensive programs. Any ideas?
System Manufacturer/Model Number IBM/Lenovo T60p OS Windows 7 Professional 32-bit CPU Intel Centrino Duo @ 2 GHz Memory 2Gb Graphics Card ATI Radeon X1400
Install driver manually using device manager. Right click card, update driver, browse, let me pick, have disk, browse, now find the .inf in the extracted folder that the setup previously created.
Use Vista driver to do this if there are no 7 drivers. There probably are not since you said it's old. I couldn't check because I don't have specific enough info from you on your machine type for your model number.
System Manufacturer/Model Number self built OS 7600.20510 x86 CPU P4 550 3.4 GHz HT running at 3.5 GHz Motherboard MSI PM8M3-V (MS-7211 v1.x) Micro-ATX mainboard Memory OCZ 2 GB(2x1GB) DDR400mHz running @ 414 mHz Graphics Card HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ 3 Turbo HDMI Dual DL-DVI AGP Sound Card MOTU Traveler firewire studio interface 192 kHz 24 bit Monitor(s) Displays 22" widescreen Acer X223W LCD, 17" Compaq P75 CRT Screen Resolution 1680x1050 and 1280x1024
Keyboard Logitch Classical Keyboard 200 Mouse Logitech Mediaplay cordless PSU 350W generic Case Cybertronpc, it glows blue Cooling stock cpu fan, Ice-Q 3 gpu and system, many case fans Hard Drives SATA I x2 WD, 400 GB and 120 GB, SATA 2 WD Caviar Black 1 TB Internet Speed 1792/448 kbits/sec Other Info SATA II PCI fake RAID adapter, 1 GB Readyboost, original ATI Remote Wonder (even works with WMC perfectly), Logitech Rumblepad 2 game controller x2
Ah that worked, kegobeer. I had downloaded and installed the critical updates, but not the optional ones yet. Who would have thought that Microsoft would actually make it easy? Thanks for the replies!
System Manufacturer/Model Number IBM/Lenovo T60p OS Windows 7 Professional 32-bit CPU Intel Centrino Duo @ 2 GHz Memory 2Gb Graphics Card ATI Radeon X1400