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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 > > 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? No, those are all the problem I have currently except one more minor problem. NT cannot be rebooted after installing chips&tech video driver. And, sometime, the screen goes crazy instead of rebooting. So, I need to turn it off, and on again manuelly. > > > 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. Maybe, my 701 has suspend/resume problem. Win 95 also crashes after suspend/resume. > > 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. > > Mine is parallel ZIP-drive, which uses SCSI over parallel port called PPA3. The ppa3 driver is kind of unstable. Sometime, it crashes in booting time without any reason. I can restart NT then. But, with chips&tech video driver, it gurantees to crash. :( However, I think ppa3 driver for NT is a lot better than that in Win95. I have seen Win 95 is stoped so many times during copying files into/from a ZIP-drive. Once booted, the ppa3 driver for NT is quite stable & fast. I have experienced 24M/min in NT. > > > > > 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 Thi nkPad'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!! > > > > > > > > > > > >