15 Responses to Lenovo Delivers System Update 3.0:

• Marcel Partap
  February 23, 2007 5:05pm

  Yeah, and it does not work, too (at least for me with an old Thinkpad A22P..).. spits out error 75 and fails. arg.

• h0bbel
  February 26, 2007 12:04am

  I have no idea what Error 75 is, but System Update 3.0 works fine on my T60.

• Måns Tånneryd
  March 15, 2007 7:51am

  Hi! I have had the same problem with unwanted localized drivers and applications. I have never understood why lenovo is so persistant in ignoring the fact that I have installed an ENGLISH system. Anyway, I have a brand new T60, unfortunatly delivered with swedish Vista, and I’ve removed all Lenovo partitions and installed Windows Vista Ultimate (US-English). When running System Update 3.0 I see no signs of the language selector you are talking about though. Where is it?

  /Måns

• h0bbel
  March 15, 2007 10:27am

  I think I might have been a tad premature when doing that, it seems like they are back to their old tricks with detecting the regional options and forcing a localization an you.

  As far as I can tell, the only way to go around it is to set the system regional settings to US when running System Update and when installing their applications and drivers.

  Lenovo should really take this seriously, and not force localized versions on users, like myself, that don’t want them.

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  March 16, 2007 10:32am

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• MST
  April 29, 2007 7:21pm

  I have to include my frustration here for Lenovo’s decission of forcing the driver/software localization based on wrong information. This is an old problem and should have been changed a long, long time a go.

• Claude Falbriard
  May 21, 2007 3:10am

  Bought a new LENOVO 3000 N200 notebook factory
  shipped with Windows Vista. It worked a couple
  of hours, using with brazilian keyboard settings.
  After plugging a pen-drive into the system, it
  changed its keyboard layout. I´be checked regional
  settings for Windows as well as keyboard type, all
  looks O.K. . The key ‘/’ is missing now and dosn´t
  show up anymore in the applications (Explorer URL,
  or notebook, or command prompt). Any hint to solve
  this bug is welcome.

• Lenovo System Update 3.0 Language Override - h0bbel
  May 21, 2007 11:07am

  […] some time, I’ve been having some issues with how Lenovo System Update uses the computers Regional Settings to determine which language it should use when installing drivers and […]

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  July 25, 2007 8:37am

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• Chrischmi
  September 4, 2007 11:40am

  I “solved” the problem by setting my regional settings to US-EN but customized them to German. So I have my localiced settings but System Update sees US-EN and installs English updates on my English Vista OS.

  Vista Sidebar Weather gadget has the same problem. Solved by this workaround, too.

  Regards from Germany, Chrischmi

• bLuEs'cLuEs
  January 28, 2008 12:51am

  ThinkVantage System Update Error 75

  - the above can occur if the update software sends the wrong model number
  - try updating the following keys (or similar) to:
  HKLM\HARDWARE\ACPI\DSDT\LENOVO\{Serial Number without Hyphen}
  HKLM\HARDWARE\ACPI\FADT\LENOVO\{Serial Number without Hyphen}
  HKLM\HARDWARE\ACPI\RSDT\LENOVO\{Serial Number without Hyphen}

  - I have seen these keys in the for of TP-xx___ which, when sent to the update server, gives an Error 75

• Jandos Sad
  May 21, 2008 10:22pm

  Could you send drivers for lenovo sunrise 410M

• Christian Mohn
  May 21, 2008 10:54pm

  @Jandos Sad: I’m sure IBM/Lenovo would be a better place to look for the drivers to your device. I certainly don’t have them.

• Arup Dhar
  September 2, 2008 4:25pm

  Can anybody say me how can I update my Lenovo Y500 Drivers?

• haivis
  November 6, 2008 10:54am

  ”# bLuEs’cLuEs
  1201477875

  ThinkVantage System Update Error 75

  - the above can occur if the update software sends the wrong model number
  - try updating the following keys (or similar) to:
  HKLM\HARDWARE\ACPI\DSDT\LENOVO\{Serial Number without Hyphen}
  HKLM\HARDWARE\ACPI\FADT\LENOVO\{Serial Number without Hyphen}
  HKLM\HARDWARE\ACPI\RSDT\LENOVO\{Serial Number without Hyphen}

  - I have seen these keys in the for of TP-xx___ which, when sent to the update server, gives an Error 75
  ”

  Hi this helped me nad fixed my problem with error 75.
  But i had different path for theese values
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/ACPI/DSDT/IBM___/TP__
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/ACPI/FADT/IBM___/TP__
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/ACPI/RSDT/IBM___/TP__

  I renamed the folders called TP__ (it has the same name that system update wants to use as your computer model) with my laptop model number for eg. 2373N3G. then restarted the system update and my laptop model number had been updated since last time.

  I have IBM T42 and using dualboot with windows XP pro and linux ubuntu 8.10

  Hope this helps someone :)