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RE: TP701CS/Panasonic KXL-783A/WinNT 4.0





On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Myoung-Jun Kim wrote:

> 
> 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

This seems to be true on my 701 as well but I haven't run any objective
tests.

> 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,

what hardware, other than that mentioned below, have you had problems
with?


> 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


Suspend/resume seems to work on my 701 except that the clock is
frozen while in suspend.


> 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.

I was considering a ZIP/JAZ drive so your comment is of some interest,
however, I don't understand how the video driver conflicts with the 
parallel port.
> 
> 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!!
> > 
> > 
> 
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