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Re: TP750 / TP755CX : TV tuner
- To: <thinkpad@cs.utk.edu>
- Subject: Re: TP750 / TP755CX : TV tuner
- From: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:02:58 -0400
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Can anyone direct me to the Dos/Windows 3.1 video driver (NeoMagic 128XD)
for the 560X? The download on the IBM website actually returns the W95
driver (mistaken link, I guess).
Thanks!
vftpxw31.exe is the file I need, the web site returns a W95 driver.
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> From: Joseph Manning <manning@cs.vassar.edu>
> To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu
> Cc: Joseph Manning <manning@cs.vassar.edu>
> Subject: TP750 / TP755CX : TV tuner
> Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 11:44 AM
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if the TV tuner for the ThinkPad 750
> can be made to work in the ThinkPad 755CX (SVGA, TFT) ?
>
> I recently got such a tuner. It comes with a diskette
> marked "System Program Service Diskette", containing
> a program which is supposed to be run before installing
> and operating the TV tuner. However, when I tried this,
> it gave me back:
>
> "Message
>
> The diskette in the default drive will not run on this system.
> Your system is now locked. To restart your system, press
> Ctrl+Alt+Del."
>
> The tuner fits in the ThinkPad as a replacement for the diskette
drive,
> is labelled "IBM ThinkPad 750 TV TUNER PACK", and has part numbers
> FRU P/N 66G6681 and ASM P/N 59G3731.
>
> My suspicion (well, my hope!) is that this hardware works also in
> the 755CX, but needs a different "System Program Service Diskette".
> If anyone has a TV tuner working in a 755CX (SVGA, TFT), could you
> please check the part number of the hardware to see if it matches
> the above? And if so, could you send me a copy of the corresponding
> "System Program Service Diskette"?
>
> Or, if you know for sure that it cannot be done, then please tell me,
> so that I can return the tuner to the seller.
>
> Thanks! -- Joseph
>
>
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> Joseph Manning / Computer Science / Vassar College /
manning@cs.vassar.edu
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