ati mobile radeon drivers

WARNING!!
I installed the beta on my IBM Thinkpad R40 (it took MANY tries but I finally got it) today and my laptop has an ATI Mobile Radeon graphics adaptor. When Vista first started, it would run for only three to five minutes before the Radeon CPU would overheat (NEVER happens with XP SP2.) Finally I put the Laptop in my FREEZER to get it cold enough to run long enough so I could configure wireless, get online and update the drivers, which I did and now it's working as it should (and much faster I might add.) MS should have a WARNING pop up when it firsts detects this chip - I fear there are going to be some upset Laptop users with fried graphics processors (which equals a new motherboard in most laptops!)
I just hope no permanent damage was done.

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You need to do two things, contact IBM about this, and I don't mean send them a e-mail. I mean get on the phone with somebody there to explain to them about what you have experienced with Vista on your laptop. They in return will get in touch with Microsoft about the issue and will further check out the problem and do proper testing.
Next, you see that Feedback link on your Vista desktop? Open it and use the suggested links to file a report about the issue and explain your experiences. We have some time before RTM, so there is an opportunity for changes. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"JMiller" wrote in message

WARNING!!
I installed the beta on my IBM Thinkpad R40 (it took MANY tries but I finally got it) today and my laptop has an ATI Mobile Radeon graphics adaptor. When Vista first started, it would run for only three to five minutes before the Radeon CPU would overheat (NEVER happens with XP SP2.) Finally I put the Laptop in my FREEZER to get it cold enough to run long enough so I could configure wireless, get online and update the drivers, which I did and now it's working as it should (and much faster I might add.) MS should have a WARNING pop up when it firsts detects this chip - I fear there are going to be some upset Laptop users with fried graphics processors (which equals a new motherboard in most laptops!)
I just hope no permanent damage was done.

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Thanks. I have done both things and IBM wasn't aware of the problem - they (Lenovo) say that the particular GPU I have is not on the 'newer' Thinkpads so they might not have otherwise heard about it.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

You need to do two things, contact IBM about this, and I don't mean send them a e-mail. I mean get on the phone with somebody there to explain to them about what you have experienced with Vista on your laptop. They in return will get in touch with Microsoft about the issue and will further check out the problem and do proper testing.
Next, you see that Feedback link on your Vista desktop? Open it and use the suggested links to file a report about the issue and explain your experiences. We have some time before RTM, so there is an opportunity for changes. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"JMiller" wrote in message WARNING!!
I installed the beta on my IBM Thinkpad R40 (it took MANY tries but I finally got it) today and my laptop has an ATI Mobile Radeon graphics adaptor. When Vista first started, it would run for only three to five minutes before the Radeon CPU would overheat (NEVER happens with XP SP2.) Finally I put the Laptop in my FREEZER to get it cold enough to run long enough so I could configure wireless, get online and update the drivers, which I did and now it's working as it should (and much faster I might add.) MS should have a WARNING pop up when it firsts detects this chip - I fear there are going to be some upset Laptop users with fried graphics processors (which equals a new motherboard in most laptops!)
I just hope no permanent damage was done.

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