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Vista SP1 Installed!!

But I cheated....

If you have been following the site, you know I have bee having a HECK of a time trying to get Vista SP1 installed on my Lenovo x61 Tablet PC. Well, with my last effort this weekend, I have it installed.

I did everything I could to get things to work - I had some e-mails, some forum posts even used my own experience - Nothing worked. The last step I made was to uninstall everything off my machine - even uninstalled drivers as well - like the video, network... back to the windows generic/default - Still didn't work.

What did I do? I gave up! Friday night I did the almost 3 GIG download of Vista with SP1 included - THAT installed just fine. Unfortunately after 6-7 tries to do the upgrade I just couldn't take it any more. So, I am now running SP1 and all is fine, except for the time it's taken me to reinstall everything back on this machine.....

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3/16/2008 11:35 AM MST

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Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:12:57 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Matt, was it worth it :)?

Marvin Hlavac

Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:10:04 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

I can't tell yet if it's the 'clean install' or SP1 - but it's running great - but a fresh install always runs good... just dont' know what part is SP1....

Matt Faulkner

Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:09:31 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Have you noticed any improvement in battery life Matt?

archiwiz

Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:45:46 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Is this a Microsoft problem?
And how does the average, not very savvy guy on the street (Me) goes about installing this?

Erich

Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:01:26 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

funny, I went by a computer store in tucson today. Their marquis said "we uninstall vista and reinstall xp".

wake up microsloth.

losing faith

Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:04:40 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

For those of you that are wondering, I installed the SP1 update (rather than a full Vista image that includes SP1) and it was very easy. I hope that Matt's problems will be fairly unique and that the majority of updates should go smoothly.

Since upgrading I've found Vista runs a little quicker and there is a definite improvement in file transfer speeds. Additionally, boot times seem a bit quicker, sleep is more stable (although I occasionally have a few issues here - just not as often as pre-SP1) and battery life seems to be a bit better although I don't have any statistics to back that up.

All in all, I'd say it's definitely worth upgrading to once it's released next week.

Jake

Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:43:56 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Where did you find Vista with SP1 already integrated? I'm assuming you have an MSDN account?

Stefan Constantinescu

Monday, March 17, 2008 6:58:04 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Exactly the same question as above. From my experience I say that the best option is to install vista from beginning which already contains SP1 update. I have funny feelings that my laptop, overloaded with virtually dozens of various programs may have indigestion with new SP1 update. So I'd prefer to put SP1 update first and then reinstall remaining programs.
Therefore, is any official option for obtaining Vista SP1 image in order to make fresh install for users who have first Vista?

Jan Klepacki

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:18:02 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

I just installed SP1, no problems, and there is definitely a noticeable improvement in speed. Way to go Microsoft. Now I definitely recommend Vista to all.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:07:54 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

I found that Windows Update will not install SP1 because the video driver for the Intel GM965 is on the list of incompatible drivers. Lenovo's web site has as the latest version one that is in the incompatible range; Intel has a newer driver, but the software package refuses to install.

Christopher Lamb

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:53:10 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

you need to run the lenovo updater

i have a c200 (one of the lenovo 3000 series)

After running the lenovo updater thing to get the newest drivers, r&r, and bios, SP1 installs fine, apart from you have to reinstall the audio driver yourself afterwards.

James

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