Lenovo PC Support Home – learn about your PC device, troubleshoot, check warranty, order or repair status, upgrade software or contact us. Sep 22, 2015 Windows 10 Lenovo T530 Laptop driver issues I recently upgraded my Lenovo T530 Laptop to Windows 10 and had a number of issues primarly with the video/monitor drivers. Windows 10 installed a genric PnP driver and would not allow me to reinstall the Intel Graphics driver.
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Step 2 - Install Your Driver
After you download your new driver, then you have to install it. To install a driver in Windows, you will need to use a built-in utility called Device Manager. It allows you to see all of the devices recognized by your system, and the drivers associated with them.
How to Open Device Manager
In Windows 8.1 & Windows 10, right-click the Start menu and select Device Manager
In Windows 8, swipe up from the bottom, or right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose 'All Apps' -> swipe or scroll right and choose 'Control Panel' (under Windows System section) -> Hardware and Sound -> Device Manager
In Windows 7, click Start -> Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Device Manager
In Windows Vista, click Start -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Device Manager
In Windows XP, click Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Hardware tab -> Device Manager button
How to Install drivers using Device Manager
Locate the device and model that is having the issue and double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
Select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button and follow the instructions.
In most cases, you will need to reboot your computer in order for the driver update to take effect.
Tech Tip: Driver downloads and updates come in a variety of file formats with different file extensions. For example, you may have downloaded an EXE, INF, ZIP, or SYS file. Each file type has a slighty different installation procedure to follow.
If you are having trouble installing your driver, you should use the Driver Update Utility for Lenovo. It is a software utility that automatically finds, downloads and installs the right driver for your system. You can even backup your drivers before making any changes, and revert back in case there were any problems.
Try it now to safely update all of your drivers in just a few clicks. Once you download and run the utility, it will scan for out-of-date or missing drivers:
When the scan is complete, the driver update utility will display a results page showing which drivers are missing or out-of-date. You can update individual drivers, or all of the necessary drivers with one click.
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For more help, visit our Driver Support Page for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.
I have had upgraded my Lenovo T530 (2392AQU) from Win 7 (was pre-installed) to Win 10 and faced severe issues, including unstable display drivers and a faulty 'Power Management' process (from Lenovo) that hogged the memory infinitely with endless spawning of multiple process instances, etc.
All this, while I followed the Microsoft 'Ready to go' kind of notifications after I had reserved the upgrade.
After this, I brought my system back to Win 8.1 pro (I had the recovery disks from Lenovo). This meant hundreds of 'Windows updates' :-( that had to follow the next couple of days, in order to bring the state of the system 'back to latest updates', as the recovery disks were, indeed, of 2012!
Win 8.1 was quite stable and the thought of giving up did cross my mind! But then, I was too curious on Win 10, and continued!
I am not sure and did not wait to check with Lenovo separately, but I observed this http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds029249 and it said that this 'Important BIOS update' had 'Added support for Windows 10 (64 bit)'. Does it mean it was mandatory before I tried upgrading my T530 to Win10? Why did either Microsoft or Lenovo software on my machine not figure that out while I attempted upgrading?
Being more cautious, I brought this BIOS update first, this time round.
Then, followed the usual Win10 upgrade process, and it was a Smooth experience! My T530 IS SUCCESSFULLY RUNNING Win10 now!
But then, I cannot prove if that pending BIOS update was only missing link. A lot of older 'processes' that I observed in my Task Manager while running that pre-installed Win 7, such as the troublesome PWMUIAux.exe (Program files (X86) --> ThinkPad --> Utilities) were all cleaned up anyway when I brought it to Win 8.1.
Bottom line is, jumping from Win 7 to Win 10 was problematic and I cannot pinpoint which exact ones were the problems, but the machine was simply unstable. When I went back to Win 8.1 and then moved to Win10, it was pretty smooth.
Finally, more than being curious, why did I not stay on stable Win 8.1?
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Well, my other laptop I use at my office (Lenovo T440) runs 8.1 and I'm quite happy with that, as the T440 is touch-screen one. The T530, on the other hand, isn't a touch screen one, though it has larger screen and good hardware.
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With Win10 solving all those niggles that made Win 8.1 less friendly to non-touch-screen devices, you should have no complains on that regard with Win10. The Mouse-n-Keyboard convenience is back, the Touch works as well, and I love Win 10!