I'm wondering if anyone has successfully overclocked the ThinkPad T400 running the hybrid ATI Mobility Radeon 3470HD with Windows 7 x64.
I don't need any speculation, I've done a lot of reading and a lot of testing and nothing works properly.
I have a ThinkPad T400 and I'm dual-booting Vista and 7 (but I only really use 7). In 7, when you press Windows+P, you get 4 display options: Computer Only, Duplicate, Extend, and Projector Only. Since I just have one laptop screen, I obviously want Computer Only. But every time I close the lid (or restart), it reverts back to an Extended display, which means when I move the cursor to the right of the screen to use a scrollbar, close a maximized window, or desktop peek, I have to be precise or else the cursor will fly off the right side of the screen into my non-existent extended display.
Any ideas to fix this?
I have a T400 which has the following two display adapters:
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Family
After installing Windows 7 and checking device manager, the ATI adapter does show up under the "Display adapters' section, but it has a ! sign on it, and if I click for details, it says:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)
I tried downoading and installing this:
Lenovo Support & downloads - ThinkPad Switchable Graphics Driver for Windows Vista 32bit and 64bit - ThinkPad T400, R400, T500, W500
and when I rebooted, it went through some diagnostic tests in a cmd window to finish installation. But when I checked the device manager again, the ATI adapter still says it cannot start.
I also tried this:
ATI Catalystâ„¢ Mobility Display Driver
which I got to by selecting Windows 7 32-bit > Mobility Radeon > Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series.
It seemed to install OK, but I got a message which I've gotten with previous attempts, which says:
"The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version of your enambled graphics adapter. Please update your ATI graphics driver, or enable your ATI adapter using the Displays manager."
I went to the device manager, right-clicked on the ATI adapter and did Update Driver, and it did at first find a better match but said it couldn't be installed with the same error message from above (Code 10). Now, when I try to update the driver again, it says the best driver software is already installed.
Any ideas to fix this?
My Thinkpad T400 is stock on the initial boot screen.
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Im new at overclocking, i wanna know how to overclock so that i don't screw up my computer D:
i feel as if this computer can go farther then its limit right now, so that's why im asking. I just bought this computer 1 year ago ( 2011 )
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
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i want to overclock my PC and i dont know how to do it any help from PC guys out there.
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