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Re: 701C w/ Outboard CD-Rom
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 22:15:47 -0600, Stanley Chen wrote:
>Hi Christian,
>
>I am a relatively new owner of a TP701C and realized that I couldn't load
>anything on it. So besides adding 32Mb of RAM in ordered and outboard
>CD-ROM drive. I recently went through the Panasonic CD-ROM trials and
>tribulations. Here is what I ended up doing after I strongly considered
>going from Texas to New Jersey to do the Panasonic technical non-support
>people bodily harm. I called IBM Thinkpad group technical support people
>who had me look into the device manager. Apparently my W95 Plug and Play
>kept putting the driver on interrupt 10 which my thinkpad for some unknown
>reseason didn't like. They had me take it off "auto detect" and change the
>interrupt setting to 9 which worked like a charm. Ultimately I've sent the
>Panasonic unit back because I received such poor service and will probably
>buy and Addonics or something similar. Hope this helps.
>
>
On my 701, IRQ 10 goes to the audio. You could've been conflicting
with the audio. But that really is bad service on Panasony's part.
Paul