You can install the Intel driver manually. It is a minor chore to install
it, but it's *much* better than the Lenovo driver. All of the driver crashes
and display corruption I had on my X61 Tablet with 64-bit Vista went away
with the latest Intel driver.
1) Run the driver setup and click Next on the InstallShield Wizard screen.
It will unpack some files and open an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
Driver setup program. Leave that page open and don't close it until you
complete the rest of the procedure.
2) Right-click the desktop and select Personalize, then click Display
Settings.
3) Click Advanced Settings, then Properties and Continue on the UAC dialog.
4) Click the Driver tab, then Update Driver.
5) Click "Browse my computer for driver software", then "Let me pick from a
list of device drivers on my computer".
6) Click Have Disk, then Browse.
7) In the File Name box, type %TEMP% (just like that, with the % signs) and
hit Enter or click Open. This will display your Temp folder.
8) Right click in an empty area of the folder display and select Sort By,
Date Modified.
9) Now the newest folder inside Temp will be the first one displayed (with a
name like something~tmp). Open it, then open the Graphics folder.
10) There should be a file named igdlh32.inf or the like (igdlh64.inf for
64-bit Vista). Select it and click Open, then click OK on the Install From
Disk dialog.
11) Select Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family in the list, then
click Next to install the driver. It will ask you to reboot when it's done.
On the Vista vs. XP issue, if you decide to go back to XP, look in the box
the machine came in. You may have a set of XP recovery CDs there - my X61
Tablet came with them. They're not labeled XP, but they are XP CDs. If
they're not there, you can order them from Lenovo/IBM support. For more
information, go to www.lenovo.com and enter "xp downgrade" (without the
quotes) into the search box. Be sure to make a Vista recovery set before you
run the XP recovery.
-Mike
> From: Glenn Butcher
>
> Ordered (at lenovo.com) and received my X61 (1.8Ghz Core Duo,
> 1GB RAM, 120GB HD) in 1.5 weeks from Shanghai back in October
> (traveling, don't have exact dates with me). Came with Vista
> Home Basic, which seemed to run okay on the 1GB RAM, but I
> recently ordered and installed another standard 1GB module
> from Silicon Mountain for all of US$24 (3 day standard USPS,
> Boulder CO -> Colorado Springs). Seems to be working fine.
> Note that the HD is an upgrade; seemed worth the expense for
> them to do it at the gitgo rather than scrap and replace it later.
>
> My only "complaint" so far is with the Intel 965G graphics;
> Second Life crashes at the end of precaching, and I believe
> it's because the most recent driver released by Intel in
> August isn't yet available from Lenovo. I tried downloading
> the driver from Intel, but it won't install itself due to
> some signature mismatch. I didn't buy the machine to run SL,
> so I'm still quite happy with the machine. However, I am
> very bothered by Vista's memory needs; at work I open 20-30
> apps on a Dell w/XP in 1GB and it just cranks. Oh, when I
> ordered the X61, Lenovo had an option to 'upgrade' from Vista
> to XP for about 75$...
>
> g
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