Lenovo's latest video driver for the X61T is dated sometime in June. I've been having a lot of problems with my video driver "stopping" and "recovering". It gets pretty annoying. The driver installer on Intel's site won't install on the X61T. It says to get the driver from the OEM.

I took a look on Intel's site again recently to see if there was another way to get the drivers and I noticed a zip file you can download.

Once I got the drivers extracted I went into Device Manager and updated the drivers manually. I haven't had a video driver stop message for about a week now, so it looks like these drivers fixed my problem. By the way, this is Vista X64.

Surprisingly, EPSON released a Vista driver a while back for my scanner, which is a couple of years old. The download page says it is a 32 bit driver, but it seems to work just fine with Vista x64. This is really good news because I was contemplating moving back to 32 bit. Now I think I will tough it out. I am hoping Lenovo will release a new video driver soon. I am getting a little tired of the video driver "stopping and recovering" itself every 15 to 30 minutes. It seems to happen more often when I have my external display attached.

If you are trying to run the Juice podcast client on Windows Vista and it crashes on startup, you need to run it in XP compatibility mode. Find the exe and right-click on it. Select properties and click on the compatibility tab:

The fingerprint reader software on my ThinkPad X61T has stopped working at the Windows login screen. I've tried re-installing the software a couple of times, to no avail. So I have re-installed Vista and I'll be getting all the drivers installed again. This time I am not going to use the ThinkVantage system update software though. It never quite worked right.

After just short of a month, my ThinkPad X61T Tablet PC arrived last week. So far, I am pretty happy with it. The first thing I did was create the recovery discs and then flatten it. It came with Vista Ultimate 32 bit. I installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I found this guide on doing a clean install on ThinkPads. It worked well and I am now running Vista 64 bit.

Why do I want to run 64 bit? Well, I installed 4 GB of RAM (max supported by the hardware) and I want to make use of all of it. I also plan on running virtual machines on this laptop. I'll run at least one VM for work because our VPN solution doesn't support Vista yet :(

So, what's the hardware configuration?

• Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 (1.6GHz, 4MB L2, 800 MHz FSB)
• OCZ 4GB PC2-5400 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz SODIMM (2 DIMM)
• 12.1" MultiView + MultiTouch WVA XGA TFT (1024 x 768)
• 200GB SATA 7200 RPM Hard Drive with Hardware Disk Encryption
• 1GB Intel Turbo Memory
• ThinkPad X6 Tablet UltraBase w/ 8X Dual Layer DVD Recorder
• Integrated Bluetooth
• Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN
• X60 8 Cell Li-Ion Battery

Lenovo is having a sale right now if you want to order one. (No, I don't get any kick-backs from them!)

More to come after I play with it some more!

Epson released a Vista driver for my scanner, a Perfection 1670, so I decided to give Vista another go. There has also been a new ATI Catalyst driver release since the last time I installed, so maybe this one will work!

OK, so that didn't last long! Had to go back to XP because there are no Vista drivers for my scanner. Plus, the video drivers are bugging me more than I thought they would :)

I took the plunge and installed Vista on my laptop today. I had installed the beta a couple of times a few months ago, but uninstalled pretty much immediately when I couldn't get the video drivers to work. My laptop is a Compaq Presario R3000 with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9600. I figured that now that it is out at retail, the drivers will surely have to work, right? Well, I'm still having problems. "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)"

That's the driver that Vista installs. I also downloaded the "Catalyst" drivers from ATI and had the same results. Anyone know of a way to get my video chipset working properly under Vista? I'm going to stick with Vista this time; I really like the new features. I don't use my computer for gaming so the video isn't super important (I have my XBOX 360 for that). I'd just like to utilize the full resolution of my display and not have herky-jerky movement when I drag windows around!