BSOD with Windows 2008 SP2 on THINKPAD T510 INTEL HD

Hi All,

I have been trying to solve this problem for two days but got no luck.

So I come here to search anyone got same experience like this.

My T510 got I5 M520 CPU and INTEL HD Graphics Card.

Why I want to use Windows 2008 is because I just upgraded my memory from 4GB to 8GB. So I don't want to use Win7 64 bit for its rather slow in my thought and some of my working software like Office 2010, matlab, VS2008, always got kinda of problems with 64bit system.

So I turned to the Windows 2008 server sp2, which got rather pretty quick speed and other hand, got 32 bit flexibility.

So my problem is , after I installed the Windows 2008 Enterprise SP2 with LENOVO OEM version, which could be activated by SLIC chipset on the Thinkpad motherboard, which is awesome.

Then I installed the drivers from Windows Vista. Everything worked just fine until I found that the system BSOD after I opened a movie, or when I was installing Visual Studio 2008, for my thought, the "Datagrid view control" which is one of the VS controls even crashed the system.

So I tried to use the Intel HD graphics card driver directly from Intel, the version is 15.22.50.2622, which is the latest version. But nothing changed.

So I tried to use an older version of Intel HD graphics card driver, version is 15.22.50.2509.

Still got no luck!

So I hope to get some help from here. Or anyone could give me some hint about the correct direction.


Thanks in advance.

 

If you are using Windows Server 2008, you should be using the R2 version since it's the latest. R2 SP1 to be specific.

Second, you should be using the Windows 7 x64 drivers with R2.

 

this, there should be no problems using 2k8r2, and win7 drivers.

 

Windows Server 2008R2 is 64 bit only thus defeating the original purpose.

I don't know if the programs actually run any slower (noticeably).

Another option is to run windows 7 32-bit virtual machine for each of the programs or just one. VMware player is free.

 

The original purpose as stated requires a 64 bit OS. You aren't going to use 8GB of RAM with a 32 bit OS effectively. No sense in fighting this. If you really need to run server, run R2 SP1.

But frankly Windows 7 x64 is going to be a better choice.

 

Exactly. Another approach is to run 32 bit apps under 32 bit OS in a VM hosted on a 64 bit OS with 8GB RAM.

To OP: Are you using PAE to use memory over 4GB limit of 32 bit Server 2008?

 

as thor said, win 7 x64 with any unnecessary features and extras disabled will run just as fast as any 2008/2008 R2 installation even with 32-bit software.   a "slow" win 7 install is almost always the result of a less-than-optimal setup by the user.   many applications will complain when installing in a server environment anyway, making using server as a desktop OS a chore.   adobe CS5's DVD installer is one example.

my vote is to install win 7 x64 and optimize it.   the benefits far outweigh the negatives unless you absolutely need features offered in 2008/2008 R2 not offered in win 7 (hyper-V, IIS, server tools, etc).   it doesn't sound like you do.

besides, most 32-bit apps are limited to a max of 2GBs per app anyway due to unoptimized programming, making 8GB+ in an x86 environment no more efficient than in an x64 environment.

x86 flavors of server 2003 and 2008 use 36-bit architecture and natively support more than 4GB in the same way an x64 OS does.   PAE need not be leveraged in any special way as it would in 32-bit OSes.

 

What is the bsod code? If it's 0xF4 then it's the SSD.