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Dear Thinkpad users, Greetings. I've just subscribed, and have been asked in the introductory email to introduce myself. OK, I have a Thinkpad 760ED which was purchased in the UK, but which I'm now using out here in Darwin, Australia. I spent a lot of time checking up different laptops before I left the UK, and narrowed the choice down to a Toshiba Tecra and my Thinkpad. After asking a number of people, and communicating myself with both IBM and Toshiba, there was no contest! It's a 130MHz with 32Mb RAM, 2.1Gb disk, running Windows 95. So far, I'm extremely pleased with it (since the end of February). I use it for a variety of things, including word processing, statistical analysis, internet access and web design, image scanning and manipulation, sound acquisition and analysis, emulation, and even the odd game. I've got a TDK DF2814 V.34 PCMCIA modem installed, which appears to work pretty well - although I get some problems with hibernation and suspend mode when the card is present. I've also got an Adaptec APA1460 SCSI PCMCIA card which I use to run my Microtek scanner from. Problems? I'm afraid to say I have. For a start, I installed Direct X 3.0 a while back, and while it seems to work fine, ever since I did so all sounds played through MWave produce a 'click' prior to playback. It's most annoying. Someone in comp.sys.laptops suggested messing with the buffer size in the system.ini file, but that hasn't helped. Other problems are more serious, but harder to pin down, such as occasional crashing (mmtask appears to be responsible for this - [not responding]). The most recent problem which is highly annoying is that since I tried to install the adaptec drivers for the SCSI card, something now crashes every time the computer tries to resume following a suspend. Eventually, I had to use Win95 drivers rather than the adaptec ones (which were supposed to be Win95 compatible, AND tested on a Thinkpad) to get the card to work. Any ideas why, every time I leave suspend mode, I get a blue screen with the words: "A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C10094AB in VXD APIX(01) + 000008A3" Ugh! The only clue is that when I next try and use the modem or the scanner, I'm told they're either "in use" (modem) or "not connected" (scanner) and only a windows reboot will fix things. :( I'd like to get my Thinkpad working as normal again, because when it works fine it's great. It's just very annoying to remember, juuuust as it's going into suspend mode, that when I open the screen again it's going to crash messily. I can still retrieve the work I was doing, but it blanks the screen so I have to work invisibly until an application causes a screen redraw. Any help whatsoever would be appreciated. Adam -- Dr. Adam Britton | crocodilian@ibm.net Crocodile Research | Wildlife Management Intl.