Windows 7 and T400

Hey Everyone,
Just got a chance to install Windows 7 beta x64 on a T400 7417-CTO. I must say I'm pretty impressed.
Some notes on the intstall.
1. No need to F6 the ahci drivers for the hard drive during install.
2. Systems boots fast. Total time from power on button to loading home page in IE - 53 seconds.
3. OS has drivers for most of the hardware after initial install.
4. I was unable to install the intel video drivers to get the intel control center, but the video card drivers are working.
5. When installing chipset drivers setup reports the wrong os and won't install, but again everything is working so far
6. No drivers for Intel AMT
7. Video appears to be smooth and DirectX 11 works with the Intel GMA chipset.
8. I like the Lenovo Power manger gadget ( Our office didn't touch Vista so this is new to me )
9. It could just be me but the LED display looks 100x better than Windows XP.
Overall the experience is great. I haven't had a opportunity to install our standard apps, but so far I'm happy with the OS. I'll update this post as I get some more time under my belt with Windows 7.

After installing Windows 7 32 bit on my T400, I had several issues in device manager. I was able to get most things sorted though. By and large the Vista drivers from the Lenovo site work. I tried the drivers first with TVSU but not everything got installed. Then I reinstalled the OS and did manual installs of the drivers beginning with the Intel Chipset driver. I had to install this using Compatibility mode, as mentioned above, to get it to work. This was the story for the Intel AMT driver also. The modem driver would not install using the setup from the top level directory that the driver unpacked to, but using the setup from the Vista 32 directory worked. After installing the audio driver I still had no sound. I tried the WIndows 7 "troubleshooting" fixture and that fixed it. Apparently the Conexant device was not set as the default. Sound worked immediately after that. So try compatibility mode if the drivers don't work - (right click on the setup file and choose the compatibility troubleshooting option (I think its called). As far as non Lenovo drivers, I ended up using the Authentec Fingerprint beta Windows 7 driver that the Windows 7 Action Center pointed me too. I have not checked yet whether the Lenovo Fingerprint utility will work with this driver however, and Authentec offers their own utility as part of the install.
I also used TVSU to install the Vista registry patches (though stayed away from the Vista Updates), Power Manager and keyboard customizer, and that all worked ok. Looks great so far. I've not used Vista, only XP, but WIndows 7 seems to have potential and be less resource intensive, which is great.
Cheers.
Message Edited by WW2 on 02-04-2009 07:38 PM

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