Installing Windows Vista x64 on a ThinkPad T61p

Installing Vista 64 bit on a Thinkpad T61p

Aaron Tiensivu's Blog — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:27:56 GMT

This is pretty much what I did with my Thinkpad T60 a few months ago, although I am crippled with a Core Duo and not a Core 2 Duo, so I could not get any 64-bit goodness. I have been looking at eBay auctions of Core 2 Duo chips and they are very tempting

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rob — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:16:05 GMT

You set it to do nothing on a lid close? Not even turn off the LCD? That's my standard preference as you don't burn the battery on a display you can't see. Help quite a bit on heat also.

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Keith Combs — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:46:22 GMT

No worries. The LCD screen does not stay on.

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rob — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:18:46 GMT

Have you looked? (not as easy as it sounds sometimes) It probably does eventually go off due to the display timeout but is it running in the meantime? It definitely will be unless you tell it to turn off on close. Not a big deal but it's something I've run across alot since I use old laptops as servers for my farm.. :-) My main web server is a Thinkpad T30.

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Keith Combs — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:33:54 GMT

The T61p LCD goes off at about 1" before lid closure and contact. Now setting the webcam in the frig in order to prove the light goes off is another subject entirely.

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Helmer — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:05:00 GMT

Hey that's cool! I receive an T61p next month when we get new companylaptops :)

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Keith Combs — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:11:08 GMT

Lucky you !!!

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Peter — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:10:18 GMT

Did you have any luck finding a TPM driver for 64bit?

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Kizzy — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:42:36 GMT

These are some damn fine tips!

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Ivan Versluis — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:47:51 GMT

Hi Keith,

Nice overview of your installation. One week ago I reinstalled my T60p notebook and used your notes to get the Windows Vista up and running.

One thing to mention for others is that disabling "Windows Search" service might not be an option when using Office 2007. Searches in Outlook and OneNote won't work anymore. So maybe small note in your orginal post on this.

Cheers, Ivan

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Keith Combs — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:17:43 GMT

Searches still work in Outlook, they just work slowly. I haven't tried OneNote.

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Pete — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:39:07 GMT

Good Writeup

what were your reasons for disabling superfetch?

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QB — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:39:59 GMT

Keith,

Thanks so much for helpful blogs.

I am hoping if you can help me a little.

I ended up to your blog a while I am googling for WINDOWS 2003 SERVER ENT ON THINKPAD T60.

I just got a new T60 laptop with xp hom on it and would like to upgrade it to Windows 2003 server.

However I am faced with these IBM settings like security and hardrive AHCI..etc.

Those things are all new to me.

I owned several Dell Latitude notebooks but first getting Thinkpad.

I booted up the thinkpad with windows 2003 CD and got an error saying it can't find the HD.

Anyway, I would think steps will be pretty much similar to install for VISTAE or XP.

I would appreciate if you can give any advise.

Thanks much.

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Hrvoje Crvelin — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:20:37 GMT

I pretty much agree with your steps except that I had to apply sound driver. Without it mic support is broken (required by my VoIP application).

New Lenovo T61p

Noticias externas — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:47:30 GMT

I've just got a shiny new Lenovo T61p to replace my Dell D820 but it hasn't been an entirely

re: Installing Windows Vista x64 on a ThinkPad T61p

joanindo — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:26:28 GMT

if you want to install windows 2000, xp, or 2003, you just go to bios and change serial ata config from ahci mode into compatibility mode. this applies to any thinkpad models which have vista pre-installed.