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. I saw some discussions that this is a known defect and that Microsoft and Lenovo are working to resolve, does anyone have an update? The upgraded also changed the settings of my Strong VPN and conflicted with my Norton Anti-Virus.

The good news is I was able to re-install Windows 7 and everything worked again. I what to upgrade to WIndows 10 but will wait until the «bugs» are worked out.

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Welcome to Microsoft Community. Your interest in Windows 10 is much appreciated.

I would suggest you to Check the Windows updates for all the recommended, important and optional which might include updates for the hardware devices and drivers also.

You may try uninstalling and re-installing the video card drivers from the Device Manager. If that doesn’t help you may install the drivers in compatibility mode and check if that helps.

Refer to section “Update your video card driver” from this article.

Troubleshoot video card problems:

Please follow this link below for more information:

Keep us posted if you face any issues on windows in future. We will be glad to help you.

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Thank you for your response. However I did try to uninstall and re-install the video driver with the latest update from version from Intel (my system provider) but I keep getting error message for the driver. I will continue to monitor Windows updates and when they are available I will once again install Windows 10.

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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?

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.

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!

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Good information. I don’t suppose you use your T530 with three monitors (two external, plus the laptop monitor), do you? If so, how did this work out?

This is what keeps me from moving from Windows 8.1 to 10, as I have heard of trouble doing this.

Annu Singh: No one marks your reply as helpful, because these very general replies from Microsoft «Engineers» are too vague and contain the standard «Go read everything and reinstall everything and after spending two days of your precious time let us know what you find out but we won’t get back to you anyway.». Save your fingers .

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well, . you got me curious, and I tried now this simple stuff:

I have a TV, simple 32 inch LCD monitor that is. I used to project my laptop screen easily to that via the small «Display port», and a mini-converter that changed the Display-port output as HDMI output (as the LCD screen had only HDMI input), and it worked when my T530 was on Win 7.

Pity, the same stuff does not work fully now that the PC is on Win10 🙁

To be precise, there are options, as we know, «PC screen only», «Duplicate», «Extend», and «Second screen only».

Neither the «Duplicate» nor the «Extend» options worked with Win10.

The «Second screen only» did work. But this merely means I would be able to view some movie, photos etc. that I may play on laptop, but won’t be able to «work» with both the screens at the same time! So, what you heard was also correct, I confirm.

I did the same experiments now with my other laptop which is still on Win8.1, and everything worked!

BTW, I am receiving continuous «small» updates on Win10, whenever I connect to internet. This confirms that the issue you mentioned about is still not resolved. I quickly scanned through the postings in «Windows Feedback» app that comes integrated with Win10. Yep, loads of posts confirm this and other related issues.

Thankfully, the screen on laptop is stable and I was lucky to escape many other issues with many other display drivers that worked with Win8.1 and Win7 but no longer works with Win10, as per those posts.

I am not sure if this was due to market pressure that MS released Win10 in this state. Many other apps do not work as good as it did in Win8.1 («Photos», «Mail», «Store», all have worsen a lot). I really do not get it — the main complain about Win8.1 was only the fiasco with «Start» screen / button. The target, a bold one, was to get both kind of users, the «Touch»-crazy and «Keyboard-Mouse» loyal groups into one seamless experience, and I like it the way they pulled it in the new «Start» menu. That bit works! Why the other good things had to undergo such massive regressions is beyond my naïve knowledge!

Let us not discuss those here though as this is a thread about «Display Drivers». I hope this is a temporary phase. Question is how fast can MS get past this phase!

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. I saw some discussions that this is a known defect and that Microsoft and Lenovo are working to resolve, does anyone have an update? The upgraded also changed the settings of my Strong VPN and conflicted with my Norton Anti-Virus.

The good news is I was able to re-install Windows 7 and everything worked again. I what to upgrade to WIndows 10 but will wait until the «bugs» are worked out.

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Welcome to Microsoft Community. Your interest in Windows 10 is much appreciated.

I would suggest you to Check the Windows updates for all the recommended, important and optional which might include updates for the hardware devices and drivers also.

You may try uninstalling and re-installing the video card drivers from the Device Manager. If that doesn’t help you may install the drivers in compatibility mode and check if that helps.

Refer to section “Update your video card driver” from this article.

Troubleshoot video card problems:

Please follow this link below for more information:

Keep us posted if you face any issues on windows in future. We will be glad to help you.

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Thank you for your response. However I did try to uninstall and re-install the video driver with the latest update from version from Intel (my system provider) but I keep getting error message for the driver. I will continue to monitor Windows updates and when they are available I will once again install Windows 10.

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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?

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.

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!

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Good information. I don’t suppose you use your T530 with three monitors (two external, plus the laptop monitor), do you? If so, how did this work out?

This is what keeps me from moving from Windows 8.1 to 10, as I have heard of trouble doing this.

Annu Singh: No one marks your reply as helpful, because these very general replies from Microsoft «Engineers» are too vague and contain the standard «Go read everything and reinstall everything and after spending two days of your precious time let us know what you find out but we won’t get back to you anyway.». Save your fingers .

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well, . you got me curious, and I tried now this simple stuff:

I have a TV, simple 32 inch LCD monitor that is. I used to project my laptop screen easily to that via the small «Display port», and a mini-converter that changed the Display-port output as HDMI output (as the LCD screen had only HDMI input), and it worked when my T530 was on Win 7.

Pity, the same stuff does not work fully now that the PC is on Win10 🙁

To be precise, there are options, as we know, «PC screen only», «Duplicate», «Extend», and «Second screen only».

Neither the «Duplicate» nor the «Extend» options worked with Win10.

The «Second screen only» did work. But this merely means I would be able to view some movie, photos etc. that I may play on laptop, but won’t be able to «work» with both the screens at the same time! So, what you heard was also correct, I confirm.

I did the same experiments now with my other laptop which is still on Win8.1, and everything worked!

BTW, I am receiving continuous «small» updates on Win10, whenever I connect to internet. This confirms that the issue you mentioned about is still not resolved. I quickly scanned through the postings in «Windows Feedback» app that comes integrated with Win10. Yep, loads of posts confirm this and other related issues.

Thankfully, the screen on laptop is stable and I was lucky to escape many other issues with many other display drivers that worked with Win8.1 and Win7 but no longer works with Win10, as per those posts.

I am not sure if this was due to market pressure that MS released Win10 in this state. Many other apps do not work as good as it did in Win8.1 («Photos», «Mail», «Store», all have worsen a lot). I really do not get it — the main complain about Win8.1 was only the fiasco with «Start» screen / button. The target, a bold one, was to get both kind of users, the «Touch»-crazy and «Keyboard-Mouse» loyal groups into one seamless experience, and I like it the way they pulled it in the new «Start» menu. That bit works! Why the other good things had to undergo such massive regressions is beyond my naïve knowledge!

Let us not discuss those here though as this is a thread about «Display Drivers». I hope this is a temporary phase. Question is how fast can MS get past this phase!