Windows 7 - Lenovo N500 Power manager

Hello.
There is avaliable new "System update 4.0" for Windows 7 but it has no support for N500, although "List of Windows 7 upgrade capable systems" has it.
Will there be avaliable Windows 7 drivers, especially power manager, because sleep/hibernate function is the only ones that doesn't behave normally.
Thank you.

Hi,
i'm running Windows 7 64 Bit successfully on my Lenovo N500 4233-77G.
Here some recommendations:
FIRST:
Install the "Intel Chipset Driver for Windows Vista and XP" from the Lenovo Website. It is meant for XP (32 Bit) and Vista (32 Bit and 64 Bit) and runs flawlessly under Win 7 64 Bit. This resulted in a large temperature decrease of the overall components (CPU, HD, graphics) and is definitely HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
SECOND:
I installed from the Intel website the "Intel Matrix-​Storage-​Manager" driver for Win 7 64 Bit. Not sure if that helped, but Windows told me afterwards, that it has identified the HD and some SATA Controller. So shouldn't hurt.
You can find it on the intel website by navigating:
chipsets >> notebook chipsets >> intel 4 series express chipset >> driver >> Win 7 64 Bit
THIRD:
Install the Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website (Win 7 64 Bit again)
FOURTH:
As the system is parking the HD to often (click noise) you should do something against it. Install QuietHDD (http://sites.google.com/site/quiethdd/). The APM setting of 255 is already default and makes the click noise go away. Run that app all the time in the systray. Also this is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
With this setting Hibernate (a successful suspend to disk) works also with Win 7 (i think this is due to the intel chipset driver and also the nvidia driver).
Suspending doesn't work normally on this system, also with the drivers listed above. I think it's related to the BIOS, version 1.10 is out and might be tried. It is only for systems without HDMI, and disables HDMI on laptops which have this output. That's the reason why i haven't tried it on my HDMI enabled laptop.
Good luck,
muggy

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