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Inventor 7 and IBM Thinkpad A31P Problems

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elton.hammond
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‎10-24-2003 10:24 AM
‎10-24-2003 10:24 AM

Inventor 7 and IBM Thinkpad A31P Problems

I purchased an IBM A31P that claims to be certified by IBM for use with Inventor. However it gives me a lot of video card problems (ATI Fire GL, 7800). Half the time it does not want to work at all. I get 2 error messages EVERY time that Inventor 7 starts telling me that the video card driver (from IBM) is not certified to work with Inventor and that I need to do a change to the Registry. IBM refuse to help and I have downloaded and successfully installed the latest BIOS (1.08) from IBM as well as the latest ATI video card driver.

Does anyone have any experience with the IBM A31P and Inventor?
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Anonymous
in reply to: elton.hammond
‎10-25-2003 07:58 PM
‎10-25-2003 07:58 PM

WELL YES I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM was busy with it for a month despite all phone call and help for here it did not solved any problem tried a lot diffent drivers update xp .new bios,new xp instalation
its crazy dispite they its certified it not working and they give no support also not any windows support despite its installad on machine microsoft also do not give any support they say its ibm its choice oem version if you want support buy a new version of xp
also i think its a video problem because i had contact with autodesk they say its working fine looked at the chip of ati that was a 400mhz dac i have a 350 mhx dac
when i said or it was xp certified not any answer back so i believe its not certified at all
shame you buy a very expensive laptop 5000 $ and get not work with the software you buy it for
ibm is not at home for this also only to collect the money
and mine also svideo import in mgi video wave 4.0 and movie maker is also not working
michel
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Anonymous
in reply to: elton.hammond
‎10-25-2003 10:45 PM
‎10-25-2003 10:45 PM

We had best success with the FireGL7800
using

driver version 3056 and the latest hardware
library.

You can get both from here:


Although I don't know nothing about IBM's
Thinkpad.

BTW: you can suppress the error messages in
the

application options in the hardware
tab.



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I
purchased an IBM A31P that claims to be certified by IBM for use with
Inventor. However it gives me a lot of video card problems (ATI Fire GL,
7800). Half the time it does not want to work at all. I get 2 error messages
EVERY time that Inventor 7 starts telling me that the video card driver (from
IBM) is not certified to work with Inventor and that I need to do a change to
the Registry. IBM refuse to help and I have downloaded and successfully
installed the latest BIOS (1.08) from IBM as well as the latest ATI video card
driver.

Does anyone have any experience with the IBM A31P and
Inventor?

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Anonymous
in reply to: elton.hammond
‎10-26-2003 01:56 AM
‎10-26-2003 01:56 AM

WELL micheal thanks but a thinkpad can do more then only cad also video in and out so i think that make ´s it differant then other cards
the thinkpad is also the only one who use´s this chip in a mobile computer
michel
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Anonymous
in reply to: elton.hammond
‎10-26-2003 03:39 AM
‎10-26-2003 03:39 AM

With all due (dis)respect, even the CAD benchmarks on the IBM web site
do not compare any of the more graphic intensive CAD programs. They do
however compare more gaming oriented graphics benchmarks like Light Wave
and 3DS. I notice that Dassault logo at the bottom of the benchmark
page but no Catia or SW.

I too, have struggled with the IBM laptops (T40P). We have escalated to
IBM and are still having problems. The IBM portables are great pieces
of equipment, rugged etc but until they can get the graphic driver issue
solved.... It isn't just Inventor; we recently did a benchmark on
another CAD program and it suffered as well. We also benchmarked the
Dell M60, what can I say other than "I want one".
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Anonymous
in reply to: elton.hammond
‎10-26-2003 05:51 AM
‎10-26-2003 05:51 AM

THINKPAD A31P
well thank you charles ,that you also expressed this i also run catia v5 .11 and it also cannot run normal on it
even this program IBM on prgram cannot do this
we had to run it still on a workstation
the funny thing is on a cheap computer with asus card on it fly´s .
and that card also can do the same as the expensive hardware of ibm does altough its not portable
i want it on a portable to travel around the world and evrything on it spend a lot so we did not want to say the money spendid was the problem but since it cannot run on it its a expennsive toy to play with.
now i am doomed to buy another laptop that can do this .
you just do not expect those thing from ibm
but its true waht they say there own words your too slow,your in denile,and too expensive
michel
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