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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2009
Final version of Windows 7 is done and it seems that unlike Vista this OS will be a huge success.
There are so many reviews praising this new operating system from Microsoft and everyone is so excited about it. Computers that had very hard time running Windows Vista do not have to be replaced or trashed as W7 should run quite well on it.
There is however one big issue – Windows 7 no longer supports XDDM drivers as Vista did. Instead it just uses the ‘Standard VGA Adapter’ which is good only for standard resolutions. And critical thing for notebook users – it does not allow you to hibernate or put the computer to sleep. Many great Centrino notebooks were shipped with i855 or i915 chipset and integrated graphics that do not support Aero. In Vista it was possible to use XP drivers and everything was fine, but in Windows 7 this no longer works.
Since I really wanted to use Windows 7 on my ThinkPad X40 (i855), I spend hours searching the internet for solution. And I succeeded! This is a step-by-step guide how to make it work:
1. bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
2. bcdedit.exe -set nointegritychecks ON
3. reboot to safe mode
4. open Computer Management, update driver for the Display Adapter using THIS drivers (only this version works!)
5. wait for the succesful installation message, reboot in normal mode
6. wait for the ‘New Hardware Found’ dialog to finish, it should give you error for one of the adapters
7. reboot to normal mode
8. wait for the ‘New Hardware Found’ dialog to finish, it should be successful this time
9. reboot to normal mode
10. change the color depth to 32-bit
Please note that I wasn’t the one who found out how to do this and I don’t want to steal credit for it. It is a compilation of various solutions I found on the internet that for some reasons didn’t fully work for me.
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hi, mart!
Your solution worked for my old laptop from “clevo”!!! Thank you very much!
I didn’t get error for adapter in step 6, though.
The “aero” still does not function, but I can choose it in “Personalize”.
Once again – thank you!!!
Mickey
Thanks mart,
didn’t get an error either – only thing that worked which I could find.
Your a savior.
Also, DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
Should be DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
Was working blind till I noticed that…
Glad it works for you.
Some sites wrote DDISABLE, some DISABLE, I used the first one and got it working, so it seems like it has no effect at all.
I changed it to DISABLE as it seems to be the correct parameter. Thanks!
very interesting …
I also i855 user
but I’m still confused steps 1 and 2
1. bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
2. bcdedit.exe -set nointegritychecks ON
how it was changing settings?
The drivers we are installing are not meant for Windows 7 so we need to disable the internal checks inside the OS that would normally stop the installation from succeeding.
Just run those two commands from command line – make sure you run it as administrator, otherwise you get error.
Thank you
This worked first time – I’ve not been using this laptop as I couldn’t get it working with any other solutions on t’internet. genius xD
Thanks for this
Since my T40 (1.5GHz, 1GB RAM) has ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, i forced to install XP drivers as you described, after some bullshiting and ingoring my attempts I finally forced to install them properly…
BUT: still cant play videos in fullscreen (eg youtube), makes em distorted; FnF3 combo to shutdown LCD is not working…
Basicly same result as with DNA-ATI drivers which I have tried previously, this setup however so far seems to be more stable.
Anyway thx
I returned back to Vista on my X40 exactly for the same reasons you describe – so many problems caused by the video drivers as well as power management not working properly. With 1.5GB RAM and SSD and little bit of tweaking, Vista works like a charm.
well in last 2 weeks I have tried to run almost everything I could run on T40.. starting with XP pro SP2/SP3 (which worked ok for almost 2years but then the mighty BSOD-reign started), Win7 Pro 32bit, Ubuntu series (8.10, 9.10) Linux, DOS
Unfortunatelly I dont have Vista instal disc since Vista came preinstalled on my second notebook (now it runs Win7 64bit) so I cant legally try it on my T40. But I guess I wouldnt do that anyway since Vista is really bad bad OS.
So I have to cope with Win7 somehow, all the things I have to do work properly, except USB 2.0 support which due to some BS with chipset aint working faster than USB 1.1 which suxx with 8GB usb drive. But hey, I got win7 for free since I am student so I guess I shouldnt be bitchin
I really wonder why IBM/Lenovo aint supporting 40/50’s series anymore.. those CPU are remarkable due to underclocking options, their performance is great for singlecore, chasis and build quality still rule… when I sum it up, my T40 is 7 years old now, it is still better than all those netbooks and cheap lowend notebooks available nowadays