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Well, I also have 701C with 24M RAM & 540M HDD. I found NT 4.0 is more stable, even faster (with enough RAM) than Win95 in my desktop PC. So, I decied to use the same OS in 701. Yes, NT 4.0 does not support 701 hardwares. But, I found video/audio driviers at chips&tech/ESS web sites, and I eventually got a 701C/NT 4.0 tuned. I have still some problems. Suspend/resume doesn't work. ( I like to hear other's experience. Actually, I am suspecting the hardware. ) However, the hibernation works well. Another problem is the confliction of the video driver & ZIP-parallel driver. So, I use plain vga (16 colors) when I need the ZIP-drive. On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Lance Nichols wrote: > Sorry, but being an owner of a 701CS (with 24MB of RAM and a 520MB HDD) AND a technical support analyst for a computer Retailer I must ask: are you on drugs?!? > > The 701 is a great computer, and NT 4.0 is a good OS but it is not meant to run on portable systems! why? why! why? Stick with Windows95 (especially if you can get a copy of OEM-SR2) and be happy it multitasks, recognises and supports all of the ThinkPad's hardware, and IBM still supports the machine with that OS installed. > > -----Original Message----- > From: rj [SMTP:rj@cais.com] > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 1997 3:35 PM > To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu > Subject: TP701CS/Panasonic KXL-783A/WinNT 4.0 > > I'm trying to load Windows NT 4.0 on a TP701CS using a KXL-783A CD-ROM > drive. Unfortunately the CD-ROM only comes with drivers for NT 3.51 and > I can't get the NT loader to recognize the CD-ROM using the 3.51 driver, > which I suppose makes sense. Anyway there's a DOS work around for this > but it's very time consuming and there doesn't seem to be a way to use > the DOS workaround to load stuff after the system is installed (other > than a complete re-install). > > Has anyone loaded NT 4.0 directly from CD-ROM using the KXL-783A and if > you did, how? Alternatively, is there a way to incrementally install or > re-install parts using the DOS workaround? > > Thanks!! > >